[Tenth Anniversary]

@Nancy Lawing It includes playing time, but I figure the jams and handful of performances total less than 300 hours. It includes time studying theory (820 hours). And it's worth noting that several authors have pointed out that Anders Ericsson's 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to mastery (popularized in Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers) is something of a red herring; it's an average. I don't see anything magical about the figure, and some of my practice is not so deliberate. I haven't had a teacher over my shoulder for three years, now. As Ericsson stresses, that counts. What's magical is having some way of keeping yourself accountable.

[Carlos and Me]

Ron, you might look into having OBD installed (On Board Diagnostics). These are some common error messages. — Diane

0000 Tuning error
0001 No root
0002 Wrong octave
0006 Wrong third
0008 Wrong guitarist
0101 Cowboy chord
0205 Unsympathetic wife/husband/dog
0222 Played through repeat sign
0224 Ignored modulation
0404 Note not found
0986 Cold hands
2000-4999 Miscellaneous operator error
5555 Power chord overflow
8005 Three sharps and two flats/full house
9998 Replace strings
9999 Replace operator