Hello! I’m superskuj (Tim) and I’m trying to return to practice!
I’ve been playing about five years I think, I tried to start a few times before that but I don’t think I lasted more than two weeks any of those times. I basically overpracticed scales until it hurt, and didn’t develop any practical skills, then gave up!
This time, however, I finally stuck with it and it’s been an enriching hobby since. I believe Justin’s level of detail with breaking down the most fundamental skills, and reinforcing good habits and practice is a very effective way to learn. Great for conceptualization and understanding, things I lacked when I tried before.
I don’t get to play everyday unfortunately, I’m mostly a weekend player (and I want to spend more time on other instruments if I can) but I hope I can change that soon. I started out practicing very well, and benefiting greatly from it, but once I learned enough to go rogue I started skipping around and learning random things, and just playing for fun! Nothing wrong with that of course, and I still feel like I have learned and improved in the last few years, but there’s no doubt that structured practice is necessary to make the improvements that I’d like to make as a guitarist.
I think I’d like to start a practice log thread, to hopefully help me stay consistent, and to assess my skills against the lessons and see where the gaps are in my skills… I think I’m solid on grades 1 and 2, mostly good on 3, and have some random skills from 4 or 5. I might record some skills tests to grade myself before moving on, I think that would be fun. Then set some goals and build a practice routine and (hopefully) stick to it!
Also maybe a thread for “work in progress” original things, I don’t have completed original songs but I make up chord progressions, or practice layering/recording/looping all the time so it might be neat to post random things in a single thread, if that’s an appropriate thing to do here. And maybe someday I will even complete a song!
My biggest musical inspiration is The Grateful Dead. I don’t feel like I have much musical preference with regards to genre, any kind of music can sound good to me, but I mostly find myself listening to The Grateful Dead and classical. I like experimenting, and doing random things and seeing what happens, and I hope to learn from many different people with many different skills and experiences!
This feels a bit long winded, in summary… hi =]
