Heyyy - you, sir, @JamesRSmithJr - are doing just exactly what needs to be done, both in actually working on things and sharing progress, excellent !  My simple advice is - never stop - it IS a lifelong journey.   Simple as that man !   Day by day, week by week it is all progress - even during the "plateaus" we all experience - (more simple advice - live with it and just work through them - it will pass)

Well done James, and awesome for taking part in in the PMOTPDay...  !

So...   Thank you very much James and thanks for starting a specific thread - I have some video editing to do, and once that's done I'll post a vid on YT of both my PMOTPDay SJ session and some real crazy fun I had with a couple of friends, and drop the link here in this thread.    It is NOT to be missed, we were TERRIBLE having never played together before...Hahahaha.   But, it's well cool and a lot of fun!

Yup, during our PMOTPDay with my friends who came round - I had an interesting discussion them (Pauline and Bill - yes another Bill) - they ( and I ) are all self taught - and the discussion was all about "how people learn" - my own good lady, Debbie, is ( well, more correctly was ) a high-school-teacher - and of course she taught young adults/teenagers ( both PE and Computing - yes I know, an unusual mix ! ) - and gave us ( myself, Bill and Pauline ) great insight into how and why the "younger minds" choose to be engaged with, and choose to learn a subject or not.

Then the discussion turned from Debbie ( who loves listening to music - mostly classical - but well yes - other genres as well - but doesn't play any instrument) to myself and our guests.  So, I ( and Bill and Pauline ) in our younger days "never specifically" learned much about music, musical theory, or playing an instrument as youngsters and our chosen careers were wholly disassociated with anything musical ( although, I truly suspect we always had some hidden desire, or passion to play, and in our spare time, just "messed" with things like guitars, pianos and so on, perhaps picking out the occasional tune we had heard, of course, all by ear...).    

For Pauline, Bill and I ( and we are ALL over 65 without giving away a lady's age) - it was a REALLY interesting discourse as we shared just exactly how we came to get into music and decide what instruments(s) to play -....

Know what - without going into details - in summary - the common conclusion we all came to (including Debbie who for many years taught young adults in other disciplines) was this .... If you WANT to do it then the drive and desire is already within you - other things (in life) may well get in the way and perhaps stop us as an individual from becoming the next Paganini or Usain Bolt  (or whatever discipline may be your forte) - but - "there will come a time when that desire to do what inspires you, will indeed happen  and come-to-the-surface in your consciousness - it is never too late"

@mookje...and to add to the above - if you are looking at it in the "Calendar" screen on SJ, you'll see this - ( well it's what *I* see in my timezone ) - 

  It shows me the "actual time on-my-local-clock" when the show is on, and because we in the UK are currently in daylight saving time ( BST as distinct from GMT ) that's why I see the GMT +0100 as I hover over the artists - and it is the same for Mandy (her time is shown in my local BST timezone although her local time is 5 hours behind me), and the same applies to Barry, who is actually 6 hours behind me in his TZ.

  The use of the GMT +xx00 confused the heck out of me initially as well... especially on some of the really late-night and into-the-next-day shows....