Redistributing my practice time - a video !!!

I came to the conclusion the end of last year that my guitar 'hobby', although still engrossing, was become less fun.   After evaluating what I was spending my practice time doing, I observed that I was spending too much time on things that were not terribly enjoyable.  And as a pretty significant component of my happiness involves a) learning new pieces and b) getting better at playing - the lack of results in these areas was a major damper.  Nothing like data collection to shed light on things!     As a result I decided to take a break from orchestra, get material from my teacher intended to facilitate progress, and learn some new pieces.   You might think that new material from my teacher and new pieces to play are one and the same, but at my level, educational material isn't necessarily that much fun.  Accordingly I get to choose fun pieces to work on as a break from the "work" pieces and give me something new to play.

I decided to split up my practice time into one third learning "work" pieces, one third learning "fun" pieces and one third doing other stuff that catches my fancy.   How is this working out?  So far so good! 😀   I have been making progress on a couple of "work" pieces - taking them more in depth than I would normally do.  I learned my first "fun" piece (this represents a new thing for this blog - a video!   and I've had time to start relearning pieces I had forgotten,  work on a duet, and figure out how to make videos (though that still needs work ....😏 )