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2 month reflection
While it feels like I am leaving a lot behind at the end of each week, ( never got Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo under my fingers as an example), I can tell I’m improving each week, with each challenge. Thank you, Tony for the reminders along the way that this is a journey and as with all journeys, there will be ups and downs. I just have to trust this very different process of learning from those days of youth when teachers wouldn’t let me move on until I had it all perfect.
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I am 7 months in and have the same experience. I often don’t realize it until much later, but even the challenges I don’t successfully do are teaching me something.
I recently attended a local jam that also had an instruction component. They were teaching improv and how to play a solo and I was able to jump right in and do it no problem thanks to TAC. Maybe step back and really realize how much I’m learning even when I’m not able to do the daily challenge perfectly.
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I just joined, so this is very encouraging. Thank you for sharing!
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Here’s the thing @KPops ; @Moose408 ; and @marti-01 ;
We don’t learn when we can play something well or easily. We only learn from “adversity”, or “challenge”, or stretching ourselves.
So thank you so much for your post KPops, you worded that perfectly. It’s the process, not the learning of specific techniques. Through the process, our general, overall guitar skills get better and better. And we are having fun cause we don’t stay on one thing to the point of boredom.
It has been said in a very simple way that we learn from mistakes. That’s why “beginner’s luck” is useless. When we “accidentally” do something well when we first start learning a new thing, we can’t replicate it because we didn’t learn anything. We don’t start learning until we “miss”. Isn’t that interesting. It gives a whole new perspective to learning something, especially guitar.
Many people, even after being with TAC for a while, never see the superiority of the TAC method over other sites that teach songs or teach techniques. So what? You never feel like your a “real” guitar player, much less get beyond copying someone one else’s sound. That whole idea is to let go and just play. That’s what TAC teaches, is HOW to BE a guitar player. It’s a lot more than just technique or specific songs.
(PS – I’ve been with TAC for 4 1/2 years now, so I do have a little bit of perspective. I’ve also tried numerous other sites and even face to face instruction. My opinion is that TAC is the best there is.)
MG 😀
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I’m about 4 months or so in and I have the same challenges. Life gets in the way sometimes and then some weeks I go better than others. It helps me to step back and see how far I’ve come. The important thing is to keep at it. We will all get there in our own time.
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