[Kristin1]

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”

[Kristin1]

Just the “hands and fingers” lesson… not the whole course.

[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.

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[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.