[albert_d]

Great milestone. Very fulfilling to jam with others. Congratulations.

[albert_d]

Appreciate the performance and the historical research and background. Thanks for sharing with the community.

[albert_d]

Happy to get to share your joy with you. Enjoy that Gibson “Grand Piano”.

[albert_d]

Lovely family. Nice Cover. And Happy Anniversary. Lot of good work too on the video production. That took some time.

[albert_d]

Congratulations. That is quite the accomplishment. Welcome to the Mille Club. And back to the States.

[albert_d]

I appreciate the product of the community effort. The song stands on its own but the joint collaboration means all are having a good time. Thanks for sharing.

[albert_d]

I had a streak of a year going and it started to feel like “feathers weighing me down”(L’il Smokies on YouTube check it out) so I intentionally let them go. The streak is a fun TAC feature and an incentive for me but fun is the objective. My current steak is about 17.

[albert_d]

Good movement around the neck. Thanks for sharing.

[albert_d]

Thanks for sharing. It is always interesting and enlightening to see various treatments against the chord progressions. Good thoughts.

[albert_d]

Welcome. Fortunately music is a universal language. Have fun with it.

[albert_d]

That was a great flick. And you guys have worked up a nice rendition. Thanks for sharing.

[albert_d]

I really like the theme of this song. An original. How long did it take you to write it and put it together? Good job. I’m feeling a need for a Cheeseburger.

[albert_d]

Look at you! Out there and all. Congratulations.

[albert_d]

Way to go. Enjoying life by expressing yourself through the music is gratitude to Life’s Source. A great way to spend a half day.

[albert_d]

I’m a little late to this thread but my opinion is that 2 hours a day isn’t sustainable. When we exercise physically there is a warm up, an exertion to a burn, and a recovery time cycle. And a pattern of different facets like aerobic, strength, flexibility. Finally there is practice and there is playing (application usually in some sport, dance, adventure, or as we age just playing with the grandkids.)

These physical realities confine our guitar journey. Our fingers need to warm up, to develop muscle memory, and to recover. 2 hours repetitive action is hard on them. Our minds need to learn theory, lyrics, and chord progressions and relationships. Finally our souls need to take this practice and apply it by expressing itself through the music both personally and in community with others. A program mixing up each these seems wise. That might be the 12 month or 90 day goal approach or the focused day approach like licks, rhythm, learn a song, chords, etc. but it needs to take into account the limits of our physical reality.

I personally like goals expressed with a 10 minute minimum to give my psyche the satisfaction of having completed the step toward the goal. ( the Daily Challenge).Then layered on top of that a pattern of practice (physical-as my life schedule allows and mental- theory, lyrics, etc.) to be a better guitarist. Finally, learning or writing songs to express myself emotionally and playing for/with others to find community.

An opinion is defined as “unformed thinking”. This is currently the formulation of my thinking.