On the Importance of Realistic Goal-Setting

[mr_bad_example]

Old Goal: Learn to become a reasonably competent guitar player with a repertoire of entertaining songs.

New, Realistic Goal: Play a C chord without wanting to throw up from the pain of fretting the B string.

Comments

[elkabong.livejournal.com]

switch to ball-ended nylon strings for a while. That lets you learn the chords pain-free and then you can deal with callouses later.

[mr-bad-example.livejournal.com]

Dang. I just had it restrung. I should've asked you about it first.

[coconuthead.livejournal.com]

You kind of wonder how this whole stringed instrument business has managed to go on for as long as it has, given the viciousness of the strings.

[mr-bad-example.livejournal.com]

Explains why Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy, and Robert Cray had the blues.

[sxoidmal.livejournal.com]

Both reasonable and attainable goals. The timeline's the only thing.

[mr-bad-example.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna give it a year of practice and see where I'm at.