Back at TAC!

[stevieblues]

Welcome back Wendy_D! 🙂 I’m glad you dove back in. Have a great guitar journey! 🎸😎

[Kitman]

Hi @Wendy_D and welcome back! Great win! 😀

[Wendy_D]

Thank you, Stevie and Kitman!

[N-lightMike]

I just responded to your “belated” TACiversary, @Wendy_D . I, too, am a lifetime TAC member. There are many different dimensions to our lives, but there are also many facets to our guitar journey. After almost 3 years with TAC, I have discovered that I go through cycles. I might be focused on playing covers, or writing songs, or improving technique, or just in some kind of holding pattern. I try to do all those things of course, but I find myself giving one thing more time and the other things less time. One of the things I have found is that I can log into TAC every day and do whatever I want. I can check out the daily lesson, but then not do it. I can check out the forum and spend time reading and commenting, or not. But I can come here regularly just because it’s my guitar home. I am not committed to any certain activity or amount of time.

Once again, I said in the other thread, the most important thing Tony ever gave us is our guitar routine, or journey, or whatever you want to call it. Guitar and music is now a part of my life, it’s not just a “hobby”.

New layout to the forum. New group of regular participants. New lessons with more focus on Tony’s philosophy of learning. But it’s the same old home base. I’m happy that you are back. I’m happier that you have this home to come back to. We are in a wonderful place for guitar geeks to flourish and grow. And though we may spread our wings and fly, we can always come back for any reason what so ever.

MG 😀

[Wendy_D]

You are so right. It’s especially nice that I know I will be welcomed no matter how long I’m gone. Guitar is definitely woven into my life in many ways, including the wonderful people I’ve met through TAC and in my other guitar “circles”. Thanks for the response, Mike!

[markvguitar]

Welcome back. Do you think doing the dailies helps your progress given that you are taking lessons and writing songs?

[Wendy_D]

Definitely. My lessons are focused on specific techniques such as fingerpicking, crosspicking, and currently integrating melody into solos. I spend a lot of time hyper focused on one or two techniques then practicing them over and over during the week. The TAC daily lessons are short and allow me to apply what I know in different ways than what I’m doing in my lessons. It’s helpful to change it up so my practice doesn’t get to monotonous. The daily practice is also a great warm up for my fingers.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by  Wendy_D.