About Me

First Name

Todd

Nickname

TJ…

Why I'm Here

A few years back my wife and I were at the Foo Fighters Cal Jam show in California.  Towards the end of the show, Dave Grohl said something to the extent of: if you love music, go home and start a band in your garage. Go play music for the fun of music.  My wife said, hey, let’s go get a couple of acoustic guitars and learn how to play!  Plus, it would be fun with the RV’ing and campfires.  I had played piano/keys in my earlier life and had always wanted to learn guitar so I said, sure, why not! Sounds fun!

We got a couple of Yamaha acoustic guitars and started hitting up youtube.  Due to the wonder of target marketing (our company specializes in Adobe Experience Platform, so this is an area near and dear to us) we were targeted with many guitar playing courses.  TAC kept coming up and I was more interested in electric guitar – but my wife loves acoustic guitar and finger-picking.  I had always thought finger-picking was some advanced, voodoo sh*t.  But, there was a free-week of TAC (or something like that) and that week happened to start with the backward roll finger picking.  I loved it!

We signed up for TAC and made our way to the Acoustic Life Festival in Bozeman and had a blast.  If that wasn’t enough – the particular way in which Tony teaches/explains stuff works REALLY well for me (and I have A.D.D.).

City

Mesa

State

AZ

Country

US

My Guitar Goal

What I'm Focused On Now

My guitar goal is to have fun and keep improving.  Also, as a songwriter, I want to be able to get what is in my head out through the guitar.  I keep trying to ‘up my personal best’… A concept I stole from my kids time in Cross Country in high school.  They had a PR (personal record) that they were constantly trying to improve on.  Similarly, for guitar, I don’t compare myself or want to be ‘like’ this person or that person. I just want to keep being the best that I can be.

My Guitar Routine

This is How I TAC

In a perfect week…

How many times will I play: I will play at least 5 days (Mon-Fri) for 1 hour per day.

When will I play: after dinner (instead of watching tv shows)

Where will I play: I mostly play in my music studio or on my living room couch.  But, also being a piano/keyboard player, the amazing thing about guitar is I can play just about ANYWHERE… Which has made me way more diligent in practicing guitar than keys!!!