ChuckS
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Mark,
The TAC community has given you plenty of ideas and recommendations, so I will add my two cents worth on top of all of that. Yep, we all hit that point some time where the excitement and motivation is just not there for whatever reason.
I have found on several occasions that I was playing late in the day and that just didn’t always work out. I tended to be tired and really had to kick myself in the butt to go down to the basement and pick up the guitar and engage with the daily exercise. I did however find that once I forced myself to get going, the lack of desire slowly went away. A few other things helped as well such as:
1) Made time in the morning to do warmup exercises and the TAC Daily exercise. That made a difference as I was not dragging to start with and had a lot more energy.
2) Still hit it later in the day or early evening, but that became “My Time” to mess around with whatever song or drill I wanted to with no min or max time constraint.
3) Wrote out those 90 day goal that Tony suggests. At first I was biting off too much and falling way short of my target, so I tried to scale back the 90 day goals )I still tend to put too much there, but am slowing learning to keep it short, simple and realistic. I also found that I would type out the 90 day goal, print it out and set it near my guitar work area and then totally forget about it. So, I dug up and old dry erase board, and wrote out the goals on that and then propped it up on a tri-pod do that I am facing to every time I play. That helped a lot and kept me from wandering off the reservation. Really helped focus.
4) If you are not really feeling it, take a break for a day or two or longer. I think after that, you will find that you then start craving getting your hand back on the guitar.
5) regarding the daily exercises, every now and then Tony offers something that is just not my thing, but I give it a shot anyhow just to try and expand my skill set and then I move on and don’t worry about it anymore and focus on the things that I like.
Anyhow, hope these suggestions help.
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Really nice job with this one. Sounds great. I have this on my list of tunes to learn, but don’t think my skill level is quite there yet to take it on.
Great work Marty!
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Congrats on completing your first year. Sounds like you are making great progress and having fun at the same time.
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Wow, that was really good, both playing and vocals. What are you doing here? You should be in a recording studio or out in front of a live audience somewhere(: Fantastic!
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Wow, that was really good. Nice finger work.
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Sounds great. Nice work.
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Happy Taciversary Ted. Sounds like you have really made progress. Posting Freight Train after a mere 20 takes is pretty good in my book. enjoy.
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This sounds great. Not only can you play well, but the singing is very good as well. Congats
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Marisa,
Wow, that is amazing for someone who has only been playing for 6 months. Is that 6 month # from a planet further out in the solar system perhaps? I probably couldn’t have done that after 6 years. Congrats!!
You also have a lot of guts letting it all hang out with your singing and obvious enjoyment of this tune.
Nice work.
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Wow! Mice job Michael. How many years have you been at this? Clear and smooth. Professional sounding.
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CONGRATs on your 1st TACiversary MoochasPoochas. My story is similar. Guitar sat in the basement for 35 years as Life got in the way. You are a few months ahead of me wrt 1 year anniversary, but you comments are spot on. Having that daily requirement makes a difference.
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Good one! Right Attitude