#4: Honesty hour…

Hello and welcome to this week’s blog post where we learn that inconsistent practicing does lead to inconsistent progress (who woulda thought).

So, as previously mentioned in my first three posts, the plan is to try and learn 5 songs in 56 days, however, it would seem that this seemingly attainable task will not get done if I don’t make the time to actually do it!!

As someone who has played musical instruments before, it’s not lost on me the importance of practice, whether it be good or bad, practice is practice. And so, I’ll be the first to admit that I have not been great at holding myself accountable to a consistent schedule.

And here is why I think that is:

1. Aside from just saying that I want to practice a few times a week every week, I did not make a strict schedule with dates and times of when I planned to practice, therefore I was able to delay practicing more and more
2. I do not have my drums set up in a place where I see it every day, therefore I do just simply forget I need to practice. Unlike when I was playing the piano and I had to walk by this big honkin’ instrument every day and feel eternally guilty for STILL not practicing it (are we seeing a pattern here…?)
3. And lastly, I really do think that other priorities with worse consequences if I miss those deadlines got in the way! That’s not to excuse my procrastination, but I do think it’s a contributing factor on why I’m not a drumming superstar at this point like this guy ⤵

Needless to say, my lack of practicing has led to the lack of cool drumming beats I can show you, and for that I am very sorry (that’s assuming I’d actually be any good) 😗

So, for now, excuse me while I go set up my drum-set on the table and create a schedule for the next few weeks that I can hopefully abide by! See ya next week to find out how far (if at all) I get with my 5 songs 🎶