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I guess I didn’t really do what I was supposed to do, my journey…….

First off, it’s my TACiversary, not anniversary. I don’t follow directions well.

I started from scratch last October with a brand new guitar and no direction. I started looking around online for instruction and after reading/listening to a lot of hot air, I came across Tony’s video. He seemed genuine enough and it sounded like offered a lot of different types of instruction, so here I am. The fact that he wears hockey sweaters didn’t hurt. I knew he had good taste if he follows hockey. 😉

I didn’t think I would be interested in finger picking, but I like it. I’m not good at it………yet, but I like it.

I never thought I would get some of the basic chords without forever muting other strings, but I’m not doing too bad. Still not perfect but getting much better.

I watched a couple of the Daily Challenges and didn’t think I’d ever be able to learn anything like that! I was wrong. Most of my Favorites are from Daily Challenges. There are so many that I don’t remember most of them, but there is one that I always finger pick when looking at a new guitar.

Looking at a new guitar is another thing. I wish Tony would give me some kind of a “refund” towards all of the guitars I’ve purchased or built in the last year. Tony, my good sir, you’ve created a monster. I now have more guitars than a long time friend of mine owns and he’s been playing for 45+ years. 😬

Anyway, I got distracted from TAC for a couple of months, took some in person lessons to help me with a few issues and questions I was having. However, the cost of that was not something that I wanted to keep up for very long. Yikes!

So, I’m back. Went through Foundations of Fretboard Navigation again. Now I’m going through Fretboard Wizard again. I went through part of it earlier but got away from it. I wanted to learn how to play, but now I realize how important the theory part of this game really is and how much it can help. So, I started the Wizard from the beginning and taking my time to absorb it as best as I can. This fretboard business is actually starting to make some sense.

I know I’ve learned more than I think I have over this past year, but I want to learn a lot more this year. I know I can do it.

Something I did learn recently that makes me very happy because I always liked the song, and bought the CD because of it. I learned the finger picking (that I wasn’t interested in learning) of the song Silent Lucidity.

OK. Enough rambling. Thanks again to all of you that have encouraged me and have helped me stick it out.

Year two. And so it begins.