[Joyfinder]

Well done. You really took me back with how much you sound like Elvis. Happy Valentines day.

[Joyfinder]

That’s awesome. I have 2 years of playing (strumming) and I literally…(don’t laugh) have to put tape on my pick or I cannot hold it.

[Joyfinder]

I like what N-light Mike said. Francie You can learn songs from YouTube there are thousands and I also have an Ultimate Guitar Tabs subscription but there are also free ones. Finding songs to play and learn is very easy. I have been only learning simple strumming songs for the last 2 years. It is fun I love playing them, but I have never learned how to play with other people or other instruments and I’m pretty sure if my timing was strictly watched there would be times I’m off. I always say I played it my way. haha. When I first started guitar I was content to learn a few campfire tunes but now that’s not enough and I want the real skills to be able to play what I want and not have it be just plain strumming. In the webinar, Tony hooked me with these words. “If you continue doing what you’re doing where will you be in a year? I knew I’d be only slightly better than I am right now. Since going through the 30 days to play, the 5-day challenge, and now starting TAC. I’m realizing how much I do NOT know and cannot do at this time. It’s frustrating, discouraging, wonderful, and exciting all at the same time. I know I’m going to see wicked improvement in a year because I’m doing the hard stuff even when I can’t do the hard stuff. haha, It will come. The same as the dreaded F cord came. I can’t even get through the entire daily challenge. Today I was like an hour just trying to master the G scale. but I will now have that. All that being said of course you want to play songs, that’s why you picked it up in the first place. So definitely do this, but also throw in a fun simple song you can quickly learn and play. You have to have fun. I’m looking forward to this journey with you.

[Joyfinder]

Others have said many good things. I would just remind you that Tony’s premise is consistency not mastery. We want to be able to do the exercises perfectly, but we won’t until one day we do as we keep pressing on and challenging ourselves each day with things frankly beyond us by a bit. It’s like with bodybuilding lifting the same weight after it becomes easy doesn’t do much. I have been playing for 2 years mostly just strumming songs, with no real accountability about timing. I debated on whether or not to do the 30-day beginner course but being self-taught I figured and turned out rightly that I would have holes in my guitar knowledge and skills. TBH though I kind of thought I’d breeze right on through. HA! Not even close how do you spell Humbled?😀 The scales the fingerpicking it is all a mess. I started to get discouraged but then I remembered that Tony said to get better is about consistency, not mastery. So we need to lay aside our perfectionism and recognize like any new skill it is going to take practice. So just mark complete and move on you will eventually pick up your guitar one day and those pesky chords will just fall into place. Be proud of yourself… You show up, you are doing the work and it will pay off eventually. Mark complete and move on and if you want to return to certain lessons on off times mark the heart you will have them in your favorites and can practice them more if you want to, but don’t let it overwhelm you. Glad you posted because posting to you reminded me this is all true. I thought the F barre chord would be forever out of reach for me, but now I can play it pretty well. Don’t compare yourself to anyone and let your journey with guitar be just that…Your journey and remember why you wanted to take it. You got this. I will be cheering for you. One last thing…just because it’s called a 30-day challenge doesn’t mean you can’t do that in however long you want to or need to. Take however long you want to. I know for myself there are some things in there that it is going to take me a while to get but I do have some experience and play quite a lot so I’m thinking these techniques will continue popping up and I have hearted them and printed the tabs so I can practice more. We can do this. 😀

• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by  Joyfinder.

[Joyfinder]

This was cool. Loved it. Hope someday I can do something like that.

[Joyfinder]

Hi Lorraine so nice to meet you. Thank you for confirming for me that I should keep moving on each day even though i often dont have it down. I agree with you about the 30 day to play it was great. i did that and then the 5 day challenge then started my first regular challenge. i have been hearting them so I can go back and practice the ones Im not really getting but that may not be possible as every day there are new challenges. I practice everyday usually. it was wild trying to learn wagon wheel a different way my brain really struggled but totally agree learning new things and ways of doing things and developing diversity is both exciting and challenging but really necessary to improve. Hope you have a great day.