Man, I love the dedication! I envy your drive and clarity on where you want to go. I don’t have any feedback, just know that I am rooting for you! Really hope you get to achieve all of this

Happy new year! For me, the biggest reason I joined was honestly because I wanted to support you @Luan Krasniqi in making this happen. What I personally really liked is the smaller group we had. It just felt a bit more accessible and I felt more comfortable (less insecure?) sharing my experiences and videos with a smaller group, rather than the entire community. That is obviously not the case anymore, which I completely understand from your point of view. The time zone challenge also didn’t help. Looking back at the year, I think it just didn’t click for me. Like I said to you separately, I think this community is great for people who really want to put in the work and have a clear goal. While I could say my goal is to that I want to get better at music, it’s clear that I just don’t do the things that need to be done in order to get there. And maybe, if we still had our smaller subgroup, things could have been different, but realistically I don’t think it would have. I still very much hope you get this off the ground and I can see in the posts by @Brad Simon and @Kaleb Blankenship that they are making great progress based on your feedback! So keep up the good work, I am rooting for all you guys!

@Luan Krasniqi This will probably be a longer post, so forgive me. I have quite some thoughts around this. Let me start by saying I fully appreciate what you are looking to do with this community. In fact, I think it is commendable to do it this way rather than, I dunno, make a video course and selling that for $150 and letting people struggle on their own (despite it being easier business wise I would imagine). Like I said before, I think what you are delivering is very valuable, but it is just not for everyone. In order for it to work, you need to be driven, you need to want to make progress and you need to have a clear goal that you want to achieve, no matter what. Because posting a video where people see you fail is a small price to pay for valuable feedback that will get you closer to the goal. When I joined, I was already not too convinced. Not about you or your willingness to help at all, but more about my own commitment to put in the effort. Not because of you or the people in the group, but mostly because I have no idea what I want. I am not striving to become a musician, if I even have a goal it is that I wanna sound decent enough so I do not feel bad when my partner walks in when I play. To answer the question in your original post, what I would love to see for me to sign up for another year: *Dedicated "groups"* I really loved the separate group. Again, I understand why we have one group, but I liked having the actual feeling of a "class" where you are (more) invested in each other success. When the groups were merged, I felt like my "accountability" also disappeared. Before I felt kinda bad I let people down, but after that really was not the case. *More lessons / challenges* The most fun I had was when we did the challenges and you gave feedback on those. The Object Writing was great fun. I think the challenges gave it a bit of direction and just felt more engaging than the current "daily improvement" posts. *Joining for a shorter period with more focused materials*

Happy holidays to everyone!

I would recommend watching a few videos of make pop music on YouTube. Sure, he uses a ton of high end plugins, but it basically the video version of what ChatGPT recommends

I am sure you tried this, but try pushing down the strings very gently. It’s insane how different that was for me coming from acoustic. I really didn’t vibe with my first electric and I just gave it away because I couldn’t get a simple D chord to sound in tune. It was not because it was cheap, it was me 🤣