[the-old-coach]

Jeff– once again– you have delivered the perfect response and guidance.

Dennis– Forget about “needing” to be so all-exact in your practice time– and the subject matter of each practice. Don’t worry about that stuff. IMHO– just “go with the flow” of the TAC philosophy. This is what you are paying-for as a member in TAC. You’re paying for all the planning to be done for you, so the burden of all that thinking-about “what you should work on next” and all the self-expectation is off your shoulders. Just keep playing every day, remember that learning guitar is not “required-reading” in life—– and that it is a s-l-o-w process. And never forget that you started this journey with the intent of having fun with it.

Over time, learning all these various things- (that may be seemingly impossible now)- will almost happen “on auto-pilot”.

When I was first in my power-lineman apprenticeship training (mid 1980’s)- boy was I ever “full of p*ss and vinegar”. I wanted it ALL……. NOW. That was a big mistake. You need time to fully understand something new. I was told by an old-timer lineman that I should stop “trying to make things happen– and just let things happen”. What a difference that made! I also realized right then that there was a huge difference between learning something, and actually understanding it.

Yeah- the whole “practice-time” (and content) is a very vague thing if you try to figure it all out yourself. But, that’s why you are a member in TAC. You have enough on your mind in learning– let them do the heavy-lifting as far as planning-out everything.

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theoldcoach

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