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Hello @MiRu ;
I totally get you. Two levels, guitar skill and money!
So, here’s the thing: guitar?… yeah, it’s gonna take waaaaay longer than you wanted. It takes waaaaaay longer than anyone ever wanted. That’s exactly why soooo many people stop playing it, or just mess around with it for years without ever getting hardly any better.
Ok, so $200 is a lot of money to me. I’m not one of those who can layout the cash for a $3500 guitar. And then save up my pennies for a custom built guitar that costs maybe $15,000. I bought a sub $500 guitar, and that took some effort. Then, I saved up my pennies for an $800 guitar. Yeah, that’s my “high end” guitar. So to me, $200 to belong to a guitar community for one year is a serious investment. That’s why, after 2 months of using TAC, I realized I wasn’t going to be able to stay long enough to get what I wanted.
What I mean is that only 2 months told me that for the first time in 20 years I was making progress that I could notice over just a couple of weeks. This was working. And I was learning things from the community that I would never learn otherwise cause I’m not a musician who gets to hang out with other musicians and pick things up. So since I was within the 90 days, I got my money back for my year and I signed up for lifetime. It was like buying one of my more expensive guitars, but at the time I was able to pull it off. And sure enough, I would not have made it to the 3rd, much less 4th year otherwise.
So I totally get it that it is simply too pricey for some people to pull off.
But, now back to the skill. From other TAC members, I realized that it took 3 – 5 years for someone to become a “real” guitarist. Self-sufficient, as you say.
So focus on what that means and learn that, self-sufficiency, while you are here with TAC. Yeah, it would mean that you finally moved up off the pile of “beginning” guitarists. But how good do you really have to be to NOT be a beginner? A beginner is beginning, that is, they have close to zero knowledge and close to zero skill. So, it doesn’t take much. It’s more of an attitude.
The second thing it would mean, is that you know how to continue making progress and always having fun… on your own, somehow.
That’s what TAC has done for so many. It gets them picking up their guitar as often as is possible for their circumstances. And it’s gives them direction so they know what to do with their guitar when they pick it up. AND, it makes it fun from the beginning. AND, it does that continuously, day after day, long term.
If you can duplicate that on your own, you are ready to fly from the nest.
I hope this helps.
MG 😀