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New to TAC, But have picked up then dropped the guitar for 50 years
Yesterday I went out and bought a new guitar. I had sold all of the guitars and equipment that were gathering dust last year, but that old urge to try to play again always seems to come back. I knew I had to find a way to keep myself motivated and focused. I’ve tried internet lessons before with so so results. I’m hoping that this time is different.
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You can do this! I am in similar boat…40 year gap between playing. It can be your habit to pick up the guitar and learn something new. You are a musician now 🙂
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Welcome back to your guitar journey. I’ve had success and enjoyment with TAC. I recommend the Lifetime plan because it committed me and has become a great value both financially and personal fulfillment-wise.
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@dld2608gmail-com welcome to the TAC community, congratulations on your new guitar. That’s so awesome. It’s always such a cool feeling when you get a new one. Should post a photo of it and tell us about it.
The fact that you have the desire to try again says a lot, and just remember that it’s a journey, not an end. There’s no race, so my suggestion is to focus on building a routine. The routine might be as simple as just picking up your guitar that day; or Picking up your guitar and simply holding it; or tuning it; being intimate with your guitar by changing sstrings and a good cleaning and caring of your instrument; or going through the 30 days to play as a start. You might want to not jump right into the daily challenges until after you’ve built up a routine through playing the 30 days to play. Play for 10 minutes, and then mark a lesson, complete. It doesn’t mean that you can’t continue to play or practice a lesson, but don’t get caught up in trying to perfect a lesson. TAC is about progress rather than perfection, and you will progress by doing the minimum 10 minutes per day. It is actually detrimental, sometimes to play too long. I will typically pick up the guitar multiple times throughout the day and play for 5-10 minutes. What typically happens when someone puts down a guitar for good or gives up quickly is that their expectations are set to high early on. It is always best to approach. It is a journey, and there will be UPS and Downs. Ebzymphlos, but you will.
Be more well-rounded by Realizing that this will happen throughout your journey and things more difficult. Of course, at the beginning and guitar is not an easy instrument but it’s not impossible and it gets a lot easier as time goes by. I always say, don’t give up your dream before the magic happens. I nearly quit guitar into my first year, or probably more seriously thought about it, as I was completing my second year. Guitar has not come easily to me and I did not feel I was ever going to be any good, and I wasn’t progressing as fast as I saw other people progressing or as fast as I wanted to.
I’m glad I didn’t quit, because literally within a few months, things completely opened up for me, turned around, and i’ve not looked back and have been on a rapid improvement period since.
I also decided to supplement TAC with private lessons, and I found a great teacher who never felt threatened that I was a member here. He actually would often work with me on the same skills that we were learning here, but more often it was to complement the skills that I learned here. He said that because of TAC, I was more advanced than most of his other students. He offers a free virtual lesson, if you’re interested now we’re down the road., let me know and I’ll shoot you a private message with his contact information and website.
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Thanks for your kind words and jewels of wisdom 🙂
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I see that you showing up regularly! Keep it up!
This is a great place to learn, I tried others before TAC and lost momentum after a few months. Since starting with Tony’s program I have only missed days when I didn’t have access to a guitar,
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