[Kristin1]

Have a look at the course “Daily stretch for guitar” 😉

[Kristin1]

Play the boogey – or just small parts of it – a few times with looking. Try to be as accurate as possible🙂.

Right afterwards play the boogey – or just a small part of it – without looking. Lower your standards regarding accuracy a bit😉.

Change between looking and not looking several times in one practise session.

SLOWLY shift your focus to less looking and more non-looking sessions over the next practise hours / days / weeks. Think tiny! Baby steps!

Example:

1st step: 4 looking, 1 not looking, 4 looking, 1 not looking,…

2nd step: 4 looking, 2 not looking, 4 looking, 2 not looking…

3rd step: 3 looking, 2 not looking, 3 looking, 2 not looking…

…

??? step: 1 looking for a good start, 1 just a glance at the most difficult change, all others not looking🤩

[Kristin1]

Hi @davefive,

thank you for the cheatsheet. I guess you hardly need it anymore after creating it and optimizing every little detail 😉. I just put the sheet on top of my “90 Days Goal Folder” to remind me to start my morning routine with stretching

Greetings from Germany

Kristin

PS: You seem to be a very well organized person. Tony highly recommended “Tiny habits” written by BJ Fogg. It might be a good read for you.

[Kristin1]

But they are definitly trying to do the changes/developments at (American) nighttime in order to reduce the inconvenience 👍! I tried to lock in at 0:01 a. m. (= 8:01 a.m. Germany) and they were already working 🙂.

[Kristin1]

@TimK1 I forgot to say thanks for sharing! Unlike the others I´m more interested in the Martin X-series guitar than the guitar player. The guitar sounded so much better than a quite similar x-Model I tried out before corona to broaden my horizon.

I guess I try an X-Modell out once more when the music shops in Germany open again. You motivated me to do one more step to playing comfortably in public👍. Thanks für that as well!

[Kristin1]

BJ Fogg states in his book “Tiny Habits” that motivation is a crucial factor when it comes to making changes. The old forum motivated me to reflect on a lot of guitar related questions. For example:

– just one guitar or more guitars?

– Which size? Which brand? Which sound?

– storage in case or hanging on the wall?

– where are public places ( with few bypassers) to play outside?

(inspired by the Mark Lindemann TRUMPET video)

– what about humidity?

Some answers lead to small changes, which added up and multiplied to big changes. One answer even enabled me to install a rock solid 7-day-a-week guitar practice. The old forum offered me many prompts ( as BJ Fogg would call them) to improve as a guitar player. I guess you and others made similar experiences.

I believe there are other, additional ways to improve as a guitar player than daily pratice and skill courses – allthough these are the most essential for sure. I am gratefull that the old tac forum offered me so much inspiration, prompts and motivation for my guitar journey till now – and hope that tac will expand it´s focus a little bit in that direction again in the future.

But last not least: the new look/optic is great and modern and I really appreciate it. If a new “leaner” forum allowing all kinds of guitar questions would have been included, where topics would be deleted automatically after 30 days – quite simular to the daily challanges at the end of a month now – it would have been perfect for me.

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by  Kristin1.

[Kristin1]

I agree with you all. BJ Fogg states in his book “Tiny Habits” that motivation is a crucial factor when it comes to making changes. The forum motivated me to reflect on a lot of guitar related questions. For example:

– just one guitar or more guitars?

– Which size? Which brand? Which sound?

– storage in case or hanging on the wall?

– where are public places ( with few bypassers) to play outside?

(inspired by the Mark Lindemann TRUMPET video)

– what about humidity?

Some answers lead to small changes, which added up and multiplied to big changes. One answer even enabled me to install a rock solid 7-day-a-week guitar practice. The forum offered me many prompts ( as BJ Fogg would call them) to improve as a guitar player. I guess others made similar experiences.

I believe there are other ways to improve as a guitar player than daily pratice and skill courses – allthough these are the most essential for sure. I am gratefull that the tac forum offered me so much inspiration, prompts and motivation for my guitar journey till now – and hope that tac will expand it´s focus a little bit in that direction again in the future.