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  • TravelingonaDream-How I TAC

    Posted by TravelingonaDream on April 30, 2021 at 10:07 pm

    1.) How many days per week do you play?

    I play 7 days a week. I do my 5 days of TAC practice and then add my own weekly routine, then I give myself 2 days to noodle and just rest and enjoy music. My five days of practice includes the TAC Daily Challenge, then I vary the routine for the rest of my time, depending on the day of the week. I work on various skills, or a song I am working on. (Much like the Practice Challenge does with Speed Challenges on Mondays, Licks on Tuesdays, Scales on Wednesdays, Phythm on Thursdays, and Chords on Friday.) I go further in depth with some of those same skills and try to apply to songs.

    2.) What time of day do you play?

    I play between 6-9:30 p.m. I don’t play for 4 hours, but that’s my time frame. I usually begin around 6 no later than 7 and go to 9, 9:30, somsetime 10 pm. I easily go for 2 hours. I can get very involved in trying to master a technique or learn a song.

    3.) Where do you play?

    I play in a bedroom that we converted to a study. I have taken a corner of the room and have a folding chair, a music stand, a metronome, a book shelf, various supplies, batteries for tuners, and humity thermometers, a glass of picks that I am experiementing with, a cup with pencils, pens, colored pencils for marking up tabs, diaries for keeping notes of daily guitar happenings, notebooks-one 3 incher is filled with tabs from the TAC Daily Challenges by day-these tabs have dates that I encounter them through the 2 1/2 years I have been with TAC and notes and comments concerning each lesson, another 3 inch notebook has tabs and notes on various guitar subjects not only from TAC but also from Acoustic Guitar Magazine and other sources and Acoustic Life Journal; another notebook is dedicated to Fretboard Wizard and additional information that I have encountered on the Fretboard Wizard Course. I have composition books with notes from the Acoustic Tuesday shows, and the Monthly Guitar Parties. Once I go to my Guitar place, I don’t come out.

    <b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>4.) What was your guitar life like before having a guitar routine & how has implementing a consistent guitar routine helped you? (if possible name 3 <b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>ways).

    I had not played my guitar in years, actually as I look back, did I ever really play my guitar? I owned a guitar. That was it. But the desire was always there. I began doing the TAC Daily Challenges and finally came to the conclusion that I could find one thing I could do for that 10 minutes from the lesson. So that first year I began to build the routine of getting my area set up, getting into the routine of going to my guitar place, and just spending that 10 minutes try to master a chord, a measure, something from the Daily Practice.

    1. By having a routine, and by writing notes on each of the Daily Practice TABS and keeping track of how I have progressed each year, I can look back to non-existent guitar playing to growth.

    2. By having a routine, I have become more consistent in playing and venturing out into guitar life. An example, tonight at VOM I was able to play along as we jammed as a group on some bluegrass songs. I understood what was happening. I have played 4 songs at VOM. Little ole’ me…who knew nothing.

    3. By having a routine, I have become an active member with 2 different jam groups. One quit when Covid came and hasn’t started again, but that first jam group helped me realize we all have to start somewhere, and the routine that I have built from just 10 minutes a day has allowed me to move forward. The second jam group has started again the last 5 months and it’s stretching me to explore the bluegrass genre. I am feeling more and more comfortable as I venture outside of my corner guitar office.

    5.) Bonus Question: What is one non-guitar item that is a must have in your routine?

    A picture of Scruffy. Scruff was our 17 year old westie who died 2 years ago. He would know when it was guitar time and would meet me in the guitar corner, circle round and listen to me do my guitar routine.

    TravelingonaDream replied 3 years, 9 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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