[Joyfinder]

Others have said many good things. I would just remind you that Tony’s premise is consistency not mastery. We want to be able to do the exercises perfectly, but we won’t until one day we do as we keep pressing on and challenging ourselves each day with things frankly beyond us by a bit. It’s like with bodybuilding lifting the same weight after it becomes easy doesn’t do much. I have been playing for 2 years mostly just strumming songs, with no real accountability about timing. I debated on whether or not to do the 30-day beginner course but being self-taught I figured and turned out rightly that I would have holes in my guitar knowledge and skills. TBH though I kind of thought I’d breeze right on through. HA! Not even close how do you spell Humbled?😀 The scales the fingerpicking it is all a mess. I started to get discouraged but then I remembered that Tony said to get better is about consistency, not mastery. So we need to lay aside our perfectionism and recognize like any new skill it is going to take practice. So just mark complete and move on you will eventually pick up your guitar one day and those pesky chords will just fall into place. Be proud of yourself… You show up, you are doing the work and it will pay off eventually. Mark complete and move on and if you want to return to certain lessons on off times mark the heart you will have them in your favorites and can practice them more if you want to, but don’t let it overwhelm you. Glad you posted because posting to you reminded me this is all true. I thought the F barre chord would be forever out of reach for me, but now I can play it pretty well. Don’t compare yourself to anyone and let your journey with guitar be just that…Your journey and remember why you wanted to take it. You got this. I will be cheering for you. One last thing…just because it’s called a 30-day challenge doesn’t mean you can’t do that in however long you want to or need to. Take however long you want to. I know for myself there are some things in there that it is going to take me a while to get but I do have some experience and play quite a lot so I’m thinking these techniques will continue popping up and I have hearted them and printed the tabs so I can practice more. We can do this. 😀

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