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Well, hi there, everybody.

First up, I'd like to talk about practicing now, I think it's really important to develop some good

practice habits, and I'm convinced that you can make a lot of progress with as little as 30 minutes

per day.

And I would encourage you to try and find a little time each day to practice rather than, you know,

finding a couple of hours on a weekend here and there, because just chipping away at it daily will

really help you internalize all the information.

And I like to practice in 15 minute segments.

So 15 minutes blocks, I call them.

And a good practice for working through this course might be watching the course material for 15 minutes,

you know, per day, and then practicing the exercises in the songs for 15 minutes.

And that that would be a good little practice session that that I would recommend incorporating into

your routine.

I love to practice in front of a mirror and that helps me to monitor my body and just see if I if I

look like my shoulders up too high or if I look like there's tension in my body at all.

What we want to aim for, as you know, guitarists, is a really relaxed and natural, you know, technique

and natural body position and as little attention as possible.

So the mirror can help monitor that.

And it also gets us out of the habit of just staring down at our hands all the time.

So that's a good tip.

And, you know, when we're practicing, we want to try and make it as intentional and deliberate as

possible.

Deliberate practice is what the experts agree is, is the secret to to making progress on an instrument.

I think there's a time and place for noodling and, you know, just having fun playing, but, you know,

establishing a habit of deliberately practicing each day, even for short amounts of time, 15 minutes,

you know, can't can be enough time to to to make some progress.

And if you keep at it and stay positive and trust the process, I'm convinced that you'll make leaps

and bounds.