Adapting to additional practice strategies and fine tuning my deliberate practice regime intensified during my fourth month of lessons and life as a disciple of the guitar. I was quite confident that I would hit the milestone of four hours of daily practice by January 2013. I had only one exception to my self-imposed rule, that I would only practice two hours (split between two sessions) on my weekly lesson day. Taking an entire whole day off from practice was a thought that petrified me, so I remained faithful to daily, regimented practice. What if I got sick, I pondered. If I could make it to the bathroom, then surely I could pickup my guitar and practice in ten-minute chunks while convalescing. After a…
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Whatever discouraging, lingering doubts I had about my inability to fret chords and play them clean and clear were quickly being abated by problem solving, persistence, and repetitive practice. Encouragement and support from my music teacher, stronger hands and digits, and tougher calluses on the finger tips were motivating factors to plow through a dry patch of technical obstacles. I reminded myself that reading standard music notation and playing single notes has been unencumbered by technical difficulties, and any fumbles in this area were the result of momentary lapses in my concentration (cranium flatus). My second month of lessons appeared to be an incremental improvement over the previous month, but I knew I could do much better and felt like I wasn’t giving a…
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