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JDTiger – How I TAC
1. How many days per week do I play?
I am committed to play 5 days a week, and stretch for 6. I expect to play Monday through Friday, and try for Saturday. If there is a family activity, this would usually be on Friday night or Saturday night. So my Friday practice might shift to Saturday, with my stretch session would move to Sunday afternoon ( I have a study group on Sunday night).
2. What time of day do I play?
After dinner and after cleaning up the kitchen, my wife goes to her office to stream a TV show, and I go to my office to practice. So this is fairly consistent at about 8:30 or 9:00 PM for practice time.
3. Where do I play?
I have a bedroom converted to my office, so that is where I have my desk and computer to log it to TAC for practice time. I need to get a different chair or stool for guitar practice so that I don’t bump the arms on the desk chair.
4. What was my guitar life like before having a guitar routine and how has implementing a consistent guitar routine helped me ( three ways if possible)?
Before, many days I would have good intentions of practicing, but something else would happen or I was distracted so that I didn’t get to practice. Or I would run out of time because I had to go somewhere or help someone else.
Having a regular routine has improved my consistency greatly. The benefits, for example are: 1). I can remember clearly what I did in the previous practice and what my next step would be rather than spending time figuring out what to do;
2) Consistent practice means that skills are additive rather than spending time recovering what I had previously done;
3). The pace of progress is faster so that over a few days the improvement in a lesson or skill becomes much more obvious and this, in turn, leads to enthusiasm to keep the guitar routine going every day.
5. What non-guitar item is a “must have” for my guitar routine?
I guess that would have to be my hearing aids. I have hearing loss from old age and loud music when I was young, so high frequencies have become diminished. I have a “music” program on the hearing aids so that most of the algorithms for speech are turned off, leaving the sound a bit more natural than the regular settings. Without my hearing aids, the guitar would sound quite dull.
“There you have it!”
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