I can play perfectly in time with a drum beat. It really shows how bad my playing is (obvious as to why). But what I find very un-fun is playing without a backing track. I find that somewhat effective for memorizing. I forced myself to start looking away from the app while I tested my memory on songs as they played. I’ve been doing that at least a couple of months (a few weeks sprinkled in where I was pulled away for personal reasons and didn’t get to focus on the guitar in any way), so maybe there’s been a total of 8 weeks where I just focused on memorizing some songs. From my previous discussions over the summer I determined I needed to stop moving ahead in the lessons, learn some songs, and let a lot of the course material consolidate. I’m (technically) stalled at Gr 2, Module…14 for sure, maybe even a little of 13. I’ve just grown unsatisfied with my playing (like many of us, I’m sure), my current state of progress, and my inability to figure out which way to step. But I’m just going to get it out so I can say I’m not bottling it up. I’ve been holding myself back from starting a topic on this because I figure there might not be any real answer, or the answer might be different for everyone, or the dreaded answer might be that I already know the answer, and if I do know it, I guess my problem then becomes either accepting the answer, or I don’t know what to do with the answer. But if the mods see this as fitting in one of the others, I’m happy to see it moved. Let me start by saying I searched previous topics to see if I could bump an already similar thread, and couldn’t find one I thought would fit.
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