#18

Getting back into playing guitar again. I want to learn more about music theory so working through a jazz guitar book.

Also working through an undergrad physics book as I have some big gaps there.

I was trying to learn C++ properly, but my interest in that’s petered out.

#19

I’m learning Python… not getting very far but enjoying it

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#20

the bits and pieces I’ve done of Python have been fun, but I use it once every six months so forget everything really quickly :confused:

#21

How not to spend all my money on frivolous things like beer. Made a good fist of it the past fortnight.

Actual things - tried learning French on Duolingo but gave up after 3 weeks or so as it wasn’t really the type of learning I required.

Nothing else really. I’m very boring.

#23

I pass a guy in the bandstand in the park, at about 5.30am once a week on my walk in to work, who has a Bluetooth speaker blaring out some jungle, practicing headstands. Utterly captivating yet bizarre

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#25

I’ve seen him doing both. I’m wondering if he’s practicing break dancing or summit. 5.30am though!

#27

I went back to quallage

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#28

That sounds like what I want to do musically… What’s the jazz guitar book called?

#29

Slow few days at work so I’ve started learning toki pona.

#30

I’m terrible at learning things, I learn enough to dabble but then lose interest, I dabble at piano, drums and mandolin, can’t seem to master anything, soon plan to dabble at double bass. piano is the worse i’ve gone too far with my dabbling that I think it would actually be hard to learn to play properly, so I am stuck with just the white keys and not using my thumbs

#31

Teaching myself a few technical things. I work in IT and use C# WPF etc. but I am a little light on some of the funky web stuff. So revamping my GFs website and using VUE.js, WebAPI etc. I am finding it hard as it’s a bit dull, and it’s what I do all day anyway. So yesterday I was battling with HTML tags from 6-10 AM.

I am also ‘playing’ with Unity to try and learn how to develop Virtual Reality apps. More fun, but again…it’s quite technical.

My German teacher thought I had an aptitude for languages, so I would love to pick one up again.

#32

It’s this one. It’s actually 3 books (beginner, intermediate, and advanced) so there’s enough to keep you going for ages. I’ve been playing guitar for years, but I even found the opening chapters about building chords useful after only every really playing open and barre chords.

I also got this which has some nice solo guitar arrangements of jazz standards.

I got both of them cheaper than the price on those amazon links, I think from eBay.

#33

60 notes an hour is a lot, but you might not need that many lessons. If you can play a bit already you could just get one or two lessons to get some feedback in your technique and give you a couple of things to work on, then see how far you can get with that and YouTube tutorials, and maybe go back to the tutor for another push some time down the line if/when you start to stagnate.

#34

nice, i’m learning how to recognise different types of trees from quite a long way away

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#35

Almost bought myself a loom not that long ago. Also learned macrame last summer. Next? Whoooo knows!! (I don’t have anything lined up at the mo… maybe some kind of animation programme, what’s best for that?)

#36

Nice one, thanks!

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#37

My class has finished and I threw three pieces, including this mug which I’m really proud of!

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#38

I’m learning counselling skills.

I also need to learn how to use Lightroom having decided to make the switch from Photoshop.

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#39

I’m learning how Reaper works. Also VBA for excel. Also how to talk to people and not feel like my stomach is about suddenly fall out. Slow progress on all 3 tbh.

#40

Update. My peripatetic percussion teacher says it’ll be great for me to learn to play along to some bass lines rather than the metronome so I should loop some and play along.

I am now learning the bass.

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