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  • Reflection on my three years in TAC

    Posted by the-old-coach on December 22, 2023 at 3:02 pm

    My win today is that I am starting to see the ten or so songs I have written– actually feel like they’re “coming together”. It’s POURING all day here, and I had a good, long session today. I’ve made LOTS of changes to these tunes as I hear new things and want to add them in. Fun stuff! I also had time to just THINK about things a bit.

    I would not be able to do that changing/experimenting stuff without the knowledge I gained from TAC, and I owe great thanks.

    Not to mention all of the friendships, GREAT advice, confidence, help-when-I-needed-it, and “get-back-in-the-game” encouragement— from all of the great PEOPLE here in the Forum! To you all, I owe even greater thanks.

    It was a great three years…… a good run, indeed…..😍😎

    Merry Christmas to all of you reading this— Good fun, good guitar-playing-and-learning, and good health to you all!

    • This discussion was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by  the-old-coach.
    N-lightMike replied 1 year, 1 month ago 6 Members · 10 Replies
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  • KayMesser

    Member
    December 22, 2023 at 5:34 pm

    This is such a wonderful post! Thank you for sharing.

    • the-old-coach

      Member
      December 23, 2023 at 9:26 am

      Thanks for responding!

      It was a good run indeed– I learned a LOT……. and with all that I learned in TAC…….. I think I learned even MORE right here in the Forums– (thanks to all of YOU).

      I’m still inspired by your “Blackbird” progress videos and info, and still work on that song… (it’s tougher than people think, right?). I always loved that song, though……

      Thanks again—

  • albert_d

    Member
    December 23, 2023 at 2:27 pm

    Merry Christmas and Happy Playing and Songwriting to you. Play something Joyous for your family this season.

    • the-old-coach

      Member
      December 23, 2023 at 9:53 pm

      A-D–

      No surprise– you have made yet another thoughtful and wonderful post. Thank you!

      Merry and safe Christmas to you and yours!

  • stevieblues

    Member
    December 24, 2023 at 12:46 pm

    Congratulations on 3 years of TAC!

    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year of Playing.

  • jumpinjeff

    Member
    December 26, 2023 at 10:57 am

    It has been a great run Mark. I went faster and better with your help! Together I learn way more than solo. (see what I did there.) Thank you fellow traveler.

    I think the next run started…or it starts soon….either way, Lets go!!!

  • N-lightMike

    Member
    December 27, 2023 at 11:42 am

    Wow, Mark @the-old-coach ;

    I can’t believe you’ve been with TAC for 3 years. That means I was only about a year and a half when you joined. So I really haven’t been with TAC that much longer than you. I feel like an old timer, but that’s probably not an accurate perception. I’m still learning at a rate that tells me I’m not as advanced as my perception thinks.

    But the cool thing is, there are no measurements or grades or levels or tests or any such thing. We both can play way better than we could when we joined. Oh, and we write our own songs, and that’s huge. That’s a true gift.

    Thanks for posting. It is good to look back to see how far we’ve come. I don’t think I ever got around to posting a 4 year TACiversary. Now, I’ll just wait for my 5 year. Or maybe not. I’ve got an idea. I could post a 4 year TACiversary that shows me playing a song from a couple of years ago and one playing now… an original song. That might be cool.

    MG 😀

  • the-old-coach

    Member
    December 27, 2023 at 12:30 pm

    Mike—

    Posting a vid from a couple years ago…. and then, playing it again NOW…. would be AWESOME…… for us…… and for you!

    It is the PROOF when it’s sometimes hard to see progress because it happens so subtly and slowly.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by  the-old-coach.
  • the-old-coach

    Member
    December 27, 2023 at 4:12 pm

    My TAC renewal date is Jan 12. That’s when I joined……. three years ago.

    I should have become a Lifetime member when I joined. But, for various reasons, the situation was somewhere between didn’t and couldn’t. The result was the same. If I could do it again, I think I would.

    So I recently contacted a TAC team member about somehow converting to a Lifetime member. She was very gracious, thorough, and helpful, in her explanations of the options available to me.

    So at this point, I think I’m gonna take a pause from my TAC membership, evaluate where my guitar-tendencies are leading me, examine that a bit, and go from there.

    Whether I cruise back by or not, there will ALWAYS be a soft spot in my heart for the TAC program and team. I have learned sooooooo much in TAC, from actually declaring to myself what I want to learn, thru all the hundreds and hundreds of “Dailies”, all the Skills Courses, the Fretboard Wizard course(s), and—- (nearest to my heart😍)—- all of the help, advice, “get-back-in-the-game’s”, perspectives, camaradarie, and friendships, that I have been given right here in our Forum(!).

    But, hey— there’s an up-side………

    There’ll be one less long-winded person in here!—- (Maybe if there is an imaginary “Long-winded “Ring of Honor””— like in some sports stadiums— you could maybe hang a banner up there in my name?😎).

    So…… I didn’t just wanna do an “Irish Goodbye” on my TAC career, and quietly disappear….. (as I may want to come back)….. and I WILL still be “around”…… somewhere…….

    Graciously yours….. and extremely thankful for getting to “know” you all–

    See ya around!– keep up the good work!

    theoldcoach– (mark)

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by  the-old-coach.
    • N-lightMike

      Member
      December 28, 2023 at 9:42 am

      Hey Mark @the-old-coach ;

      The forum won’t be the same without you… and not in a good way so don’t go there. You have always brought so much to the discussion with your questions and comments. I’m sorry they weren’t able to help you with getting a lifetime membership.

      I don’t do the lessons very much, but I do check them out everyday to see what’s being taught. Even with JMG I’d feel lost without TAC. I hope you can make it back sometime.

      MG 😀

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