Thank you WillCoop, it’s an honor to be apart of this group. I don’t feel a lot different, except fingers stiffer and I don’t reach as far on some chords yet. I can play fast but probably not as fast as I used to, but I would rather have a good hard driving sound and play more in the middle of speed. I think if I keep working on having equal spacing between my notes from my right hand and have clear and clean slides,pulloffs, chord changes, etc. with my left hand I will hopefully get there. This was the direction I was heading when I quit playing.
I started playing with a metronome which I never had before, and found out what I thought was good timing, wasn’t. I set it at 75 bpm and would play each string with each beat. I would also play at this speed how you would normally play. This was pretty hard for me. I’m going to work all different speeds to become better. It is amazing how you can be off in timing just a little. That little bit could cause your 1/16 notes turn into 1/8 notes. Ben has the best videos for this.
I know I missed a lot of time from when I quit to now, but I know I’m going to be a lot better player and in time might seem like I never quit. Ben has a good system and makes it easy to learn.
I’m not sure about habits, when I would help someone with their horse, they would say I keep doing this habit they had. I would tell them that their habit wasn’t in what I was asking them to do. they could keep their old habit just don’t use. I think I do this in playing , I’m sure I have old habits, I just don’t use the habits I dislike:grinning:
You need to put a twanger on your list, they sure are nice. Ben , Jake, and Robby had good ideas when they started working on this Banjo. Thanks WillCoop, looking forward to hearing from you.