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How I TAC
1.) HOW MANY DAYS A WEEK DO YOU PLAY?
My goal is to play 7 days a week, and 90% of the time I do. I just bought a smaller bang around guitar to take with me when I go away on trips, so hopefully now I won’t miss a day.
2.) WHAT TIME OF DAY DO I PLAY?
I play every weekday at 6:30 PM right after dinner, unless its my turn to do the dishes then its 6:45PM.
3.) WHERE DO I PLAY?
I have a finished basement and I set up an area for my music studies. It has a refrigerator with beer and soda, large TV to watch music videos on you tube, a music stand to read my TAC daily lesson tabs, a Boss RC 500 loop station, 2 guitars (an Art and Lutherie, and Ovation celebrity), a metronome, a digital tuner, and 3 notebooks for TAC lessons, music theory, and songs I want to learn.
4.) WHAT WAS YOUR GUITAR LIFE LIKE BEFORE HAVING A GUITAR ROUTINE & HOW HAS IMPLEMENTING A CONSISTENT GUITAR ROUTINE HELPED YOU? ( IF POSSIBLY NAME 3 WAYS).
I retired from the Fire Department in 2018 and finally found time to focus on learning the guitar. I put my guitar in the living room figuring I would play it more, but it sat in the corner. Every once in awhile I would pick it up and would just end up messing around with it, I had no direction and was not learning a thing about the guitar let alone how to play it.. Next came COVID and I was stuck in the house, I turned to Youtube to try to learn from various guitar instruction videos, but every time I would start a new video, this ad would come on, it started by a group of people chanting “GUITAR GEEKS UNITE..” After about a month of hearing this ad I finally clicked on it and it was TAC… I took the 30 day challenge and I was hooked.
Taking the 30 day challenge and learning the TAC method of practice, playing the guitar has become part of my everyday routine… I practice everyday in the same room at the same time ( right after dinner), and my practice routine stays the same Tune up, finger warmups and stretches, TAC daily lesson, etc…Now I can’t believe that I can actually play parts of some songs,
The three ways that TAC practice methods helped me improve;
– Having a consistent routine has helped me turn my fingers from clay, to be able to work the fretboard and shape most chords. I cannot believe how my fingers needed to be trained to move around the way I needed them to.
– Having a consistent routine has without a doubt improved my playing. Every week I seem to improve a bit and learn new things, and the better I get the more I want to play and learn about guitar music theory.
– Having a consistent routine keeps me grounded and is becoming a good habit.
5.) WHAT IS THE ONE NON-GUITAR ITEM THAT IS A MUST HAVE IN YOUR GUITAR ROUTINE?
A gym stability ball…When I practice, after about 20-30 minutes my back gets sore so I go on the gym ball to stretch my back.
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