12 May 2018 Weekly Recap
The Numbers
5h31m practicing
Are You Gonna Be My Girl x4 (80% learned),
Learn To Fly x4 (80% learned),
Technique x3,
Fly By Night x2 (30% learned),
Wanted Dead Or Alive x2 (25% polished),
Time of Your Life x2 (90% learned)
Current count: 4 perform-able, polishing 1, learning 12
Needless to say, this round of the Weekly Recap is a little different, with less focus on time spent, and more focus on how much progress I feel like I'm making, with how many songs. I got thinking that my goal isn't to put hours in on the guitar, but that I want to be able to entertain and to play a lot of different songs. More songs will intrinsically mean more styles, and more rounding out of my guitar playing.
The format and focus change was sparked after last week's moment of impostor syndrome. I've been lusting after a Gibson Les Paul for a while here, and I decided to scratch the itch by going and playing it. When I actually got to the store, I took a lap through the rest of the sections while wrestling with this feeling that I wasn't good enough. I didn't want to be That Guy who tries out a spendy guitar and demonstrates that he can't actually play.
Now, the premise of "not good enough for an instrument" is bogus. You can be good (or bad), you can have a fancy instrument (or not), but the two are independent. But the feeling that I'm not good enough is definitely something that I can work out of my system. "Why don't I feel like a skilled guitar player? Because I don't know very many songs." The clear solution is to focus my practice on learning more songs.
So, focus change, and weekly recap change. I'm still going to count raw times and how many times I practice what songs, but I'm going to better record how comfortable I am with my progress on any given song. Should be a good thing for me.
5h31m practicing
Are You Gonna Be My Girl x4 (80% learned),
Learn To Fly x4 (80% learned),
Technique x3,
Fly By Night x2 (30% learned),
Wanted Dead Or Alive x2 (25% polished),
Time of Your Life x2 (90% learned)
Current count: 4 perform-able, polishing 1, learning 12
Needless to say, this round of the Weekly Recap is a little different, with less focus on time spent, and more focus on how much progress I feel like I'm making, with how many songs. I got thinking that my goal isn't to put hours in on the guitar, but that I want to be able to entertain and to play a lot of different songs. More songs will intrinsically mean more styles, and more rounding out of my guitar playing.
The format and focus change was sparked after last week's moment of impostor syndrome. I've been lusting after a Gibson Les Paul for a while here, and I decided to scratch the itch by going and playing it. When I actually got to the store, I took a lap through the rest of the sections while wrestling with this feeling that I wasn't good enough. I didn't want to be That Guy who tries out a spendy guitar and demonstrates that he can't actually play.
Now, the premise of "not good enough for an instrument" is bogus. You can be good (or bad), you can have a fancy instrument (or not), but the two are independent. But the feeling that I'm not good enough is definitely something that I can work out of my system. "Why don't I feel like a skilled guitar player? Because I don't know very many songs." The clear solution is to focus my practice on learning more songs.
So, focus change, and weekly recap change. I'm still going to count raw times and how many times I practice what songs, but I'm going to better record how comfortable I am with my progress on any given song. Should be a good thing for me.
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