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Starting a thread for this week. The last week of our 30-Day Challenge includes 9 days, Jan 6 & 7 (Sat & Sun). Please add those to your post and we will go through the thread next week and draw some winners.

Neil

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Week Ending: January 7 (Sunday)

Saturday Dec 30:
Sunday Dec 31:
Monday Jan 1:
Tuesday Jan 2:
Wednesday Jan 3:
Thursday Jan 4:
Friday Jan 5:
Saturday Jan 6:
Sunday Jan 7:

Total Days:
Total Minutes:

Username: vastra6365
Week Ending: January 7 (Sunday)

Saturday Dec 30: 45
Sunday Dec 31: 30
Monday Jan 1: 15
Tuesday Jan 2: 30
Wednesday Jan 3: 60
Thursday Jan 4: 45
Friday Jan 5: 30
Saturday Jan 6: 45
Sunday Jan 7: 120 Got carried away! :0)

Total Days: 7
Total Minutes: 420

learning Photographs and Memories, Wicked Game (with lead), continuing Hard Headed Woman, If You Could Read My Mind, With One More Look at You

Username: carolm242
Week 4: December 30, 2023-January 7, 2024

Saturday Dec 30: 32 minutes
Sunday Dec 31: 19 minutes
Monday Jan 1: 16 minutes
Tuesday Jan 2: 13 minutes
Wednesday Jan 3: 15 minutes
Thursday Jan 4: 25 minutes
Friday Jan 5: 21 minutes
Saturday Jan 6: 25 minutes
Sunday Jan 7: 35 minutes

Total Days: 9/9
Total Minutes: 201 minutes
(3 hours 21 minutes)

How did 4 weeks go by so fast????

Username: AndyT56
Week Ending: January 7 (Sunday)
Can’t believe we have reached the end of this challenge! I have really enjoyed it and have got so much more from it than I would have imagined! And of course I have played my guitar more this past 4 weeks than in the past 4 months, or possibly longer! This has got one of my New Year resolutions off to a great start and with luck will both spur me on to be as engaged with my other resolutions and to continue in the same vein with my guitar.
Week 4:
Saturday Dec 30: 30 minutes (learning of the 8 bar blues piece continues)
Sunday Dec 31: 40 minutes (continued practice of the new 8 bar blues piece at a reduced tempo having now learned the entire piece)
Monday 01 Jan: 35 minutes (continued practice of the full 8 bar blues piece at a reduced tempo)
Tuesday 02 Jan: 30 minutes (more practice at a reduced tempo of the full 8 bar blues piece)
Wednesday 03 Jan: 21 minutes (something different today - some strumming song practice: Dock of the Bay and Me & Bobby McGee)
Thursday 04 Jan: 40 minutes (something different again today - practicing the boogie shuffle for the song, “Call Me The Breeze” by JJ Cale)
Friday 05 Jan: 27 minutes (yet more alternative playing, some gentle strumming of a song that I haven’t played along to for ages - Fields of Athenry. Such a beautiful song from such an awful tragedy)
Saturday 06 Jan: 43 minutes (first a warm up, strumming and following the chords for Fleetwood Mac’s Need Your Love So Bad, then a couple of runs through the 8 bar blues piece - getting there! and then a warm down on some old fingerstyle favourites)
Sunday 07 Jan: 30 minutes (a couple of runs through the 8 bar blues piece and then some strumming along with a couple of songs I’ve not tried before,She Will Be Loved by Maroon 5 and Tennessee Whiskey by Chris Stapleton. Thoroughly enjoyable)
Total Days: 9 days
Total Minutes: 296 minutes (4 hours 55 minutes)

Thank you Neil for setting this challenge, it has really boosted my appetite for playing, back to where it was a year or so ago.

Username: kherdeman
Week Ending: January 5

Saturday: 30 minutes (chords, scales)
Sunday: 60 minutes (chords, scales, fingerstyle)
Monday: 30 minutes (scales)
Tuesday: 30 minutes (strum chords)
Wednesday: 15 minutes (scales)
Thursday: 30 minutes (scales, strum chords)
Friday: 60 minutes (fingerstyle, scales)

Total Days: 7
Total Minutes: 255

Username: alphawolf
Week Ending: January 7 (Sunday)

Saturday Dec 30: 52
Sunday Dec 31: 45
Monday Jan 1: 35
Tuesday Jan 2: 25
Wednesday Jan 3 28:
Thursday Jan 4: 40
Friday Jan 5: 43
Saturday Jan 6: 25
Sunday Jan 7: 40

Total Days: 9
Total Minutes: 333

The usual suspects: Classical Gas, Bouree in Em, Here Comes the Sun, and slowly comes Joy of Man's Desiring.

Thanks for the contest Neil. I play daily, but this encouraged me to play longer.

Username: mark32
Week Ending: January 7 (Sunday)

Saturday Dec 30: 95 minutes - songs
Sunday Dec 31: 13 minutes – I/IV/V chords in all chromatic keys
Monday Jan 1: 14 minutes – vi/ii/iii minor progression in all chromatic keys
Tuesday Jan 2: 35 minutes – Triad & songs
Wednesday Jan 3: 15 minutes - songs
Thursday Jan 4: 14 minutes – major/minor/diminished triads
Friday Jan 5: 5 minutes – mapping chord progression on song to learn
Saturday Jan 6: 50 minutes - chord progression on new song to learn
Sunday Jan 7: 42 minutes – chord changes and picking pattern on new song

Total Days: 9
Total Minutes: 283

Username: carolmill19669
Week Ending: January 7 (Sunday)

Saturday Dec 30: 40
Sunday Dec 31: 25
Monday Jan 1: 40
Tuesday Jan 2: 30
Wednesday Jan 3: 30
Thursday Jan 4: 15
Friday Jan 5: 0
Saturday Jan 6: 30
Sunday Jan 7: 0

Total Days: 7
Total Minutes: 210 min

Username: juval2112
Week ending January 7

Saturday December 30: 45 mins
Sunday December 31: 45 mins
Monday January 1: 55 mins
Tuesday January 2: 50 mins
Wednesday January 3: 45 mins
Thursday January 4: 50 mins
Friday January 5: 45 mins
Saturday January 6: 45 mins
Sunday January 7: 50 mins

Total time: 430 mins
Total days: 9

Thanks so much for this challenge!

Username: wdenisew
Week Ending: January 7 (Sunday)

Saturday Dec 30: 45 minutes
Sunday Dec 31: 60 minutes
Monday Jan 1: 40 minutes
Tuesday Jan 2: 50 minutes
Wednesday Jan 3: 70 minutes
Thursday Jan 4: 40 minutes
Friday Jan 5: 80 minutes
Saturday Jan 6: 80 minutes
Sunday Jan 7: 45 minutes


Total Days: 9 days
Total Minutes: 510 minutes!