Mike Outram

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Practice 2.0

Seems to me that with all the interesting things I’m finding out about via Twitter such as NaNoWriMo, Home Taping, RPM Challenge and NaSoAlMo, that there really should be some sort of practice version. I reckon it could work if you had a way of connecting a few like-minded souls with a common goal, let’s say learning a particular tune or a solo, and the goal would be to get it down in the space of the month. The deadline and group network would be a great motivator, especially with the ability to record and share audio and video versions of your work so easily. I wonder if this would work in some sort of classroom environment, also? National PhD Month…

Does that exist already? If not, then I hereby create it! NaGtrPraMo – National Guitar Practice Month :) It needs a forum/focal point, I suppose. A Posterous maybe? And some people who are willing to set some challenges…