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TACiversary
It’s my 2nd TACaversity. 700 playing sessions and my current streak is 207. I’m still in the Tony Polecastro rabbit hole as I like to say. While reflecting on the past year, I’m impressed with my progress and my drive to play. Most things I’ve said to my self when I started, the fear of failure and excuses that I built around playing. Were just that, in my head. I can now reach with my picky and actually play the note correctly. I swore up and down I would never make the reach with my ageing hands. Wrong! I swore I would never be able to make bar chords, Wrong again. I was not able to connect and move on beyond the daily challenge. Well, I was way off in my assessment of my ability to play. I found that following and trusting the process was well worth every second/Hour I sit to build my skill sets. Somewhere along the way last year I started a routine, I really find works for me. Each day I print the challenge. (Old School) and just after my finger warmups. I play the challenges a few times each before moving on to the new Challenge. By weeks end I feel pretty confident with my playing. I found it hard to switch from fingerstyle to flatpicking. So, I started looking for related challenges to start to string them together. When I’m on a roll I really don’t want to switch. I Complete the day’s challenge. Should it be finger style, I save it and usually I will transition over for a week or two then back. I’m learning to read the music and have about a dozen songs I’m working on. I have been revisiting the skills course and seeing them in a new light.
I need to work on my strumming, transitions timing and cadence. I now practice with a metronome something I challenged myself last year. My short-term goal cleans up my bad habits before they become major issues lager on.
I am extremely happy with my decision to join and stay part or the TAC Family. I know, I would not be this far along if I did not follow this process. But to be honest I like having FUN and this community is just a fun way to learn the acoustic guitar and see progress and feel success in myself and within other Community members.
There have been a lot of changes over the 2
years with TAC. They are well produced in quality, Full of knowledge, and has
been very entertaining. Fantastic job! You should be proud, I am! Last thing, I’m now down 85lbs! Should call it
the TAC Guitar diet. LOL (small win)
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