The edge

Well, I'd been on a plateau for some weeks and then the holidays were on us. Somewhere in there I decided two things. . First, I was going to pursue lessons again. Second, I was going to make an effort to really get in quality practice time every day.

I found a guy to do the lessons with and met with him. A very nice fellow, but after I explained where I was and where I thought I was going, he said he wasn't sure he had anything to teach me. It was very weird. I guess what he was saying was that unless I wanted to change my goals, I was doing the right thing to advance them. That sounded like a good thing. Anyway, I mulled that over for about a week and then decided I'd skip lessons for now.

Practice. Practice over the holidays has been good. I've been making lots of progress with the fingerpicking book. I can't really put my finger on the nature of the progress, but some of the ones that are supposed to sound like music actually vaguely almost mostly kind of sound like music.