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Show Off Your Routine
1. How many times I play per week.
I very seldom go a day without playing. Although I’ve been playing around with guitar since 1968 I didn’t really start playing in earnest until I retired a little over 3 years ago. I’ve got plenty of time now and I spend a good amount of it with my guitar.
2. What time do I play?
I start most days playing with my morning coffee. I can’t say I’m even really concentrating that much on what I’m doing. I might do my daily lesson at that time but I usually come back to it early in the evening. After getting the hang of a lesson I’ll often practice it while watching a game on TV. I find some things easier if I don’t think too much.
3. Where do I play?
Most of time on our sun porch (pictured). In a couple of the colder months I move to my man cave in the basement.
4. What was my guitar like before lessons and how has a consistent routine helped?
Before TAC I had never had a lesson. I’ve been a member now for about four months. With really no formal music background or training I spent the last 50 plus years learning chords from sheet music (years ago) and more recently from internet sites I’ve discovered in the last couple of years. I hope young people realize how lucky they are to have the resources available to them today.
TAC is giving me some musical knowledge that I obviously need. I rarely played with a pick but I am now and I’m starting to even enjoy playing with a pick. My finger picking has improved and I’m learning there’s various techniques and I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to come. I’ve got more discipline when I play. I’m starting to listen to music differently! But most importantly for the first time since I started my relationship with the guitar I’m starting to feel like maybe I am a guitar player. It only took 53 years!
5. What must be present during my routine.
I don’t really have a “must have”. It doesn’t hurt to have a coffee in the morning or a coke in the afternoon or maybe Knob Creek on the rocks in the evening but it’s not required to have a good time.
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