String Joy 30 day challenge

Just finished watching the last video.

My takeaways from this experience...
1) I'm forming better habits playing
2) Employing more techniques than before
3) Better understanding of scales and modes and how to use them effectively
4) More productive practice and playing exercise sessions

What about you guys? Do you feel this series helped?
I feel there should be more things like this. Small easily digestible lessons that matter.

Again, thanks to our resident alien, @4406Pack , for finding this in his travels through known space and bringing it to us undeserving earthlings.
 
When this thing started I started putting each day into a spreadsheet with the link to each lesson. Due to circumstances such as having house torn up for some living room repair and repainting. Not being home some days such as day trip to Peoria listen to granddaughter play in the Illinois Music Education Association honors band. Etc..... I knew I wasn't going to be able to keep up with the lessons and rather than thumb thru 30 days worth of emails, the spreadsheet idea just seemed like a good work around for me.

Long way to say.... would anyone be interested in a copy of that spreadsheet? Not a fancy one, just has the important stuff in it.
 
LiveeviL2000 said:
Thanks for the offer, but I stole your idea and added a daily and weekly practice matrix to go along with it.
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I didn't get that carried away..... yet. I am a spreadsheet nerd, so I'm sure there will be some modifying as I go. Practice matrix sounds like a good idea. Maybe we can all achieve that 100 minutes a day @Session 5 mentioned in a different thread.
 
As mentioned I haven't worked all the way thru each lesson. My plan is to still do that. Some of it like improv won't be as important as some of the other lessons. But I will still work thru them. So yeah... at the end of the day... or week.... or month.... It was a good thing that got shared and it can't help but make me a bit better at this craft.

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Don O said:
I watched all 30 lessons. I don’t remember it which is why I posted it. BWTFDIK :rolf:
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Lesson 6 was called Stretchy Playing. That lesson he did on an electric. The "xtra credit" lesson you added was done on an acoustic..... I think they're basically the same. Pretty sure he didn't follow the exact same script though.

Regardless.... it's a good one for me. (1) I have small hands (2) My pinky is mostly ineffective if I have to reach very far with it. Mostly its probably me being too lazy to work at it or it harken's back 50 years to when I fractured my hand. It was one of the bones on the pinky side of my hand.

As for stretching ones reach on the fret board, I'm reminded of a young lady I dated in HS. Her hands were no bigger than mine... maybe smaller. She showed me her reach on a piano.... best I could do was at least two keys short of her reach. However, she was coming down on top of the keys and I was barely grabbing the edges.
 
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