What Are Your 2025 Guitar Goals?
Here are my 2025 Guitar Goals. What are yours?
Practice Time: 500 hours (100 hours less than 2023 goal to prevent injury)
Songs to Record:
Here Comes the Sun (White Whale)
Sweet Jane (Cowboy Junkies version)
Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis)
Winter Wonderland (Inspired by Steve Goodman version)
White Christmas (Jason Castro uke version)
Souvenirs (Dan Fogelberg)
Bach Bourrée
The Boxer (White Whale)
All 4 Guitar Fam Collaborations
Plus at least 8 more songs from my list of faves to learn (at least 1 jazz song)
Technique
Revisit / memorize at least 10 previously learned songs
Revisit Jens Larsen's Jazz Guitar Roadmap
Other Goals
Participate in Guitar Fam Open Mic
Practice piano at least 100 hours and complete Great Courses piano class
Make more effort to do vocal exercises on a daily basis
Continue to get together with guitar players on a monthly basis
2024 Goal Review
Practice time goal 600 hours. Actual playing was 474 hours. Missed goal due to illness nand injury
Recorded 5 of the 9 songs on my goal list (all white Whales) plus all 4 Guitar Fam Collaborations. Also recorded 2 additional White Whales and 8 other songs for a total of 19 recorded songs.
Completed Jens Larsen Jazz Guitar Roadmap
Was able to get together with other players on a monthly basis to jam
Improved strumming technique to be less wristy
Failed to do regular vocal exercises to improve pharyngial voice (no excuse)
I'd like to get a couple more acoustic or electric instrumental hymn cover songs done this year. I find that they are super-effective for pushing my playing to the next level.
I'd also like to do at least one original instrumental song.
Also want to get as much of @Chelsea Amber's next album done as possible.