Thanks all for the warm welcomes!
I have to admit I was too intimidated to join the original forum when I started learning initially but I’m glad I joined and already looking around I can see its a great community to be part of - thanks in advance! ![]()
I really like the breadth and different perspectives it gives me and I know might be ambitious but as I’m kinda taking a long view of the road - I’m happy if I get somewhere in 10-20 years - then I’ll see how I balance them… At the moment - I’m not sure if I could pick one to drop… but I can guess what the preference here would be ![]()
I don’t have a lot of time (any more than anyone else…
) but I’m thinking about it up front to see how to get the best out of both journeys… I’ve been learning daily for 25 mins+ in a structured and timed way for the last 3 months on Piano so I think if I spend some time in the practice assistant to set similar daily 5 min activities then I can at least work productively on both. It might be I alternate progression on one and consolidation on the other.
One other thing I want to bring over from my current piano routine is to have a weekly goal and share my thoughts in a regular journal and to produce a recording to share at the end of each week so one of my next steps will be to head over to the Learning Logs area to start a journal entry - probably this weekend. I’m not sure for recordings what to aim for - either a 45-60s ‘progress’ recording each week more for my own progression than for feedback or to build up over a few weeks to a more ‘performance’ standard. I’ll have a look at what others are doing - maybe mix with a short regular snippet on the Learning Log to keep momentum and build to a ‘proper’ song in the Performance’ area?
One thing that I fell down on with guitar was moving away from the structure and knowing ‘when to move on’ so I’m hoping to fix that. I also think I went too quickly through the lessons in pursuit of ‘acquiring knowledge’ rather than slowly building technique. I also skipped some sections that were just beyond me at the time (eg the lead melody lines, 7th chords, metronome playing etc) so I intend to go back on that. I also didn’t consolidate songs and build a repertoire or song book so that’s also something I’ll work on - recording and sharing will help on that.
I’m still finding my way round but already learning lots from everything people have been sharing and hope to contribute where I can!
Thanks all! ![]()