Kristin1
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Hello @GuitarGeni,
this discussion is definitly NOT about ego. It is about handling the “sieve” efect to get the most out of your practice time and time management.
Like so @soCal Ian mentioned it is quite often not so simple review songs. Regardless if you want to play them for others or just for yourself. Getting a bit older 1. the “sieve”-effect is getting bigger too and
– the aspect I was most interested in in the first place before the discussion took another direction: I guess I´m not the only person with 2. LIMITED TIME to play guitar. And although I play app. 45 to 60 minutes a day it´s just not enough time for everything:
5 min Warming Up fingers
5 – 13 min Daily Challange minutes video
15 min Daily Challange playing (I prefer to just 10 minutes)
15-30 min course / quarterly goal
Those minutes add up. And I was looking for suggestions to integrate reviewing songs on an regular basis. For example it was mentioned in another post to use one learnd song as a warm up everyday. I tried it but it wasn´t for me. Right now I´ve put paperslips with my song tittles in a jar and draw one every few days.
I guess there are many guitar players like me in the TAC family who don´t count the number of songs for their egos but still want to memrorize a few more songs and to keep them in their back pockets to play sponaniously sitting down at the beach or another nice spot and playing guitar mostly for themself or with family members they definitly don´t plan to impress.
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Thanks for all the feedback.
My resume: it takes more than one “task” to keep songs “alive”:
A) PLAYING
– learning the songt a first time very thoroughly
– playing the songs very reguarly until they are in the back pocket
– still play the songs – but not so frequently
B) ORGANIZATION
– keeping track of the songs you have learned
> saved on the computer “with search option” OR
> printed and filed in just one folder OR
> a sheet with the songs and an regularly checked assessment how goot you can play them ( I use a simple chart with all songs once learned listed and five emojis to mark (🤩 🙂 😏 🧐 ☹))
– planning which songs to play how often and when
– considering thoroughly which songs are worth learning
C) TIME
D) the insight abolut 100% all the time PERFECTION is not even possible for Tommy Emanuel
Right now C) is the most challenging aspect for me. Life ist busy. Therefore I booked a 4 day trip – just me and my guitar. I´ll be away at the end of the month. And hope to reactivate quite a few songs. I let you know it the plan worked out after the trip.
Thanks again!
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Hello @ salty,
after years of playing my dreadnought I bought an OOL (same manufacturer, same price range), which has a smaller body and a smaller fretboard:
– much easier to hold stable with my right arm while strumming
– much easier fingerpicking. Indexfinger first fret and pinkie fourth fret at the same time? No problem anymore! Monday Challenges much easier.
– faster fingerpicking
– some barre chords I couln´t do before were possible from day one with the OOL
– I played almost everything “better”
You might want to check these aspects while trying out guitars.
Happy new year!
By the way: nevertheless the OOL wasn´t for me. Within four weeks I was back to playing 100% my Dreadnought. But doing a Daily Finger Stretch. I guess in the middle of 2022 I can play my Dreadnought as good as I played the OOL in November last year. (But I admit although I´m not playing the OOL anymore I won´t part with this smaller sized but great guitar either… )
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Hello @mikeGaurnier,
you are hitting the mark. Even “back pocket songs” do need attention once in a while.
Otherwise they tend to slip silently and unnoticed out of the pocket.
I think your app. 20 songs are a great achievement. I myself have not reached that mark.
Greetings from Germany
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Great dog, great performance – and definitly best staged video 🎄😉.
But your daily routine is the most impotant part 🤗.
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Your playing sessions count! It doesn´t matter, what you choose – Daily Challange oder a course – as long as you play the day😉!
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Hello @MTJack,
I agree that stretching is very important and do a lot of stretching myself. If I were you, I would also prefer to play a smaller guitar, maybe an OOL and NOT a dreagtnought. Smaller /shorter fretboards – coming along with smaler guitars – are so much easier to navigate without having to stretch the hand to its maximum too often. Maybe even get low oder medium tension strings (Santa Cruz?) to optimize even more. Good luck!
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I absolutly agree with you, @Mike Gaurnier,
it´s important to choose the best finger combinations. And to consider the right order to place the fingers until all fingers find their way to the strings at exacly the same time. I usually place “lead finger/s” first and then the other fingers in the order their strings get strummed.
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Hello @denise101smile,
how do you eat an elephant? One bite at the time. Don´t hurry. And expecially the 30 Days Challange has so much potential to help us improve.
I myself revisit the 30-Days-Challange every Quarter of the year at least once. Always with another focus. I started with “doing the Challange somehow” continued with “doing it better”, moved on to “finger accuracy”, “speed without loosing accuracy” and “playing without looking at the fretboard”.
But if you get overwhelmed with the 30 Days and have the need to do something different for a while, you could take a break and have a look at the daily challanges. Most days you will recognize a small part in those challanges, that are related to the 30 Days Challange. Maybe a Chord, maybe a very small part of a strumming pattern. Maybe two or three notes. Go for it, and return to the 30 Days refreshed a few days later again!
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I tried the Martin 000-17 whiskey sunset <i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>twice intensly. It´s a beauty .I really liked the size and the playability. It just wasn´t the sound I was looking for. But maybe it´s the sound you are looking for…
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One more thing to add:
It DOES NOT mean you have to try the whole daily challange. You can do the whole challange or any part of it you feel like doing. Maybe one half of the challange, maybe the combination of a few notes, maybe a chord, maybe the rhythm… or something totally different you got inspired to play by the daily challange.
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I mark complete after 10 minutes of concentrated practise – and often practise on for 5 to 10 more minutes AFTER!!! marking complete.
I very seldom revisit previous daily challanges. I did that 2 years ago and it made me feel bad, “unable” and “always behind”.
And without revisiting I´ve enough time to work on my quarterly goals.
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Just ignore the 5 and 4 😉.
Start to quick draw when Tony says “3”.
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Hello @Tobi,
there is no need to catch up with the daily challanges. Because at TAC you are never behind. You are just where you are, enjoing the progress. And trying to catch up usually makes us feel bad. Don´t do that to you. Just jump in with the “challange of the day” when you are back. The “vacation timed” daily challanges* will pop up again eventually anyway.
But if you might take your guitar with you on a later holiday, maybe save all daily challanges (PDF) from now on. Than you will be able to print out the tabs of “vacation timed” challanges in advance and take them with you.
* I don´t want to call them “missed” oder “left out”
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Just the “hands and fingers” lesson… not the whole course.