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1 Year Taciversary
July 3rd came and went but with my move and celebrating birthdays (mine is July 4th and my mom’s is on the 5th) I forgot to celebrate it here!
CAW! Celebrate all wins! Completing a year is definitely celebration worthy! I’ve been subconsciously (or perhaps more overtly) looking for my session number to roll to 365 (I’m on 356 today) I know there are several days I didn’t get credited for (and lost streaks). But nonetheless, I’m thankful to have found this program, because it is truly a gem!
When I joined I had been learning on an electric that I snagged from Amazon because it seemed too good a deal not to take advantage of. I joined a program but realized quickly it wasn’t for me and thee was trickery involved to get you to purchase more addons, Then I leveraged my Udemy membership and followed along with another instructor Erich Andreas, “Your Guitar Sage”. He got me started but I got bogged down in his lessons and stalled out after about 3 months. He uses a sort of building block approach but from his language I got the impression one had to really master or at least be very proficient before moving on. For me that was in the Rhythm lessons, I was struggling and looking back I can clearly understand why! Tony approaches rhythm weekly, and actually even more frequent than that but he does it in small bite sizes that are much easier to chew. With Erich I was trying to understand and learn 20 different rhythms in a couple of 10 -15 minute lessons and then just practice those. That is work and Tony frowns on work!
Since finding TAC, I switched over to acoustic. Thankfully my wife has an old Takamine that she wasn’t using. Of course I still play the electric and use it for TAC quite frequently. I bought too more acoustic guitars and a mandolin as well, although I returned one of those new acoustics. I’m going to hang them all up on the wall behind me because since moving I know longer have all the space to have them scattered across the office in stands or in their cases.
Tony’s method of bringing the skills to you in small doses with frequent repetition is the secret sauce. You get enough to be challenged but not too much so as to overwhelm you, as long as you don’t burden yourself with perfectionism!
Next year I’ll be sure to celebrate my Taciversary on time and just for good measure, I’ll give you all the day off work for my birthday the next day,
Peter
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HAPPY 1ST TACIVERSARY PETE!!
THE FIRST IS DEFINITELY A BIG ONE!! I LOVE READING TO TACIVERSARY STORIES (anniversary for those newer or who refuse to use the terminology that’s been around longer than me).
I do believe this is probably the most important anniversary that people can have playing guitar, because so many quit before getting to the one year mark period I think that if you hit this particular one, you have a much better chance at continuing on your journey and becoming a good guitar player.
I practice on an old takamini in my office. I bought it at auction and only paid about $60 for it. But it’s privately valued about 700 if I bought it. No, so it’s, you know, not cheap, but not very expensive either. In terms of guitars. You don’t have to have a really expensive guitar too.Learn on or to become a better player.
Keep up the great work. Youre definitely a valuable member of TAC and in the forums. Look forward to your next milestone.
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