Lauren Bateman (speaker) emphasizes the value of having a dedicated community for celebrating small wins while learning guitar. Students share weekly progress and achievements in the community; Lauren and more-experienced students provide advice and answer questions, offering empathy and practical help for beginners.
You pick up your guitar and you play a C chord. You play your D chord and you play it perfectly. And, like, you're so excited that you just played the C chord and it sounded good. And then you go tell someone who knows nothing about guitar, and they're like, well, that's great. Good job. And you're like, no, you don't understand how much time and effort I put into this single C chord to make it sound good. So having another community that you can go to and share those wins with. And students post their wins, what they've accomplished so far this week, good things that have happened. And, you know, I'm in there providing advice, answering questions. Other students are in there answering questions because there's a lot of students who've been with me for a few years now, and they've been exactly where you were, you know, two years ago, you know, three years ago, even three months ago. They know how difficult it is in the beginning.
