Noelle
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Thank you, Claudia, and thank you to everyone who has responded. I’m also taking a loooong time to work through the 30 Days to Play. I’ve also gotten discouraged — I had to laugh at the “hide behind the blues shuffle” — Ha! Me too!
One thing that has been helping me is to not focus on completely, totally, fully nailing a lesson. Obviously, I’d like to do that, but in reality, when I keep pushing myself to really nail it, I tend to take a loooooong time and many, many sessions working on it, which then leads to me feeling discouraged and feeling like I’m making zero progress.
For example, that dang Blues Boogie has been totally confounding me! I finally moved on to chords , which have been making a lot more sense to me right now. I do go back and give it a go each session (and often will practice other prior lessons that I feel I need review on ), but then I move on to a new lesson. I know I really do want and need to learn the skills that I’m having trouble with, but getting bogged down on NOT figuring something out is so discouraging.
I’m also searching for some EASY strumming songs just to keep myself motivated. Please do share what you play & I will with you. 🙂
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Lovely 🙂
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Woohoo!
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Barry, I am brand new to guitar and also to TAC. I’ve been doing the 30 Days to Play for the last few days, and I can attest that it will no doubt take me longer than 30 days! ;P I’ve gotten through the Blues Shuffle and Blues Bassline lessons, but I’ve gone back to both multiple times to keep improving, especially with making the transitions. I’ve marked each as a favorite, too. 🙂
After each lesson, I start the play-along at 50% speed (.5x) at first. When I’m reasonably fine with that, then I go up to 75% (.75x) speed. I’m now at 100% (1x) speed for the shuffle, though I’m still not mistake-free. I’ll keep working on both of these lesson play-alongs, and at some point I’ll go on the next lesson just to keep myself from being too frustrated and bored. Then, I’ll just revisit each briefly again before or after learning the next lesson.
I like Alfred’s suggestion of learning a song to keep yourself motivated. I don’t know if I’m quite there yet 😉 but I’m planning to do just that to go along with my 30 Days to Play program.