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Series of small wins this week.
Gotta say that I’m glad that I started the bluegrass banjo techniques course the last week of April and worked it through May. It really helped me be ready for this past week, especially since I already purchased the finger picks. This was purely by chance that I did it. I did find every lesson this week pretty challenging but I’m counting the wins, things I didn’t know anything at all about before: 1) I have a feel for finger picks 2) I know how to form some chords in open-G 3) I know a scale in open G that allows me to find form a few simple melodies. I probably won’t play banjo ever but this stuff will help if I want to play slide or learn songs with open tunings. Also having to do something on the guitar where I felt like an absolute beginner again was a really good experience.
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Still getting the basics down and didn’t want to be constantly retuning my guitar but these banjo licks look really interesting. It’s great to have something a little different in your arsenal so well done on getting stuck into it. Perhaps when I get a second guitar…🤔
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@Moonhare , reach around that brick chimney and grab the other dusty guitar hanging up back there.
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☺ Well observed @jumpinjeff ! Unfortunately that one is a 12 string and like playing with razor wire! However I have something on its way from my local guitar store in time for my 50 days of TAC…
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👍 I missed the 12 string detail. Amazing to me how powerful the imagery was with the dust on that guitar. I probably won’t forget that anytime soon.
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I hear you. I kinda stopped doing anything that wasn’t in open G this past week because I didn’t want to re-tune. The five exercises were plenty to keep me busy anyway. They were all hard.
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Those are some great wins @markvguitar . I found this week to be very challenging, and I haven’t gotten the hang of fingerpicks. They feel awkward and uncomfortable on my hands. I can use a thumbpick, albeit not well, but the fingers are outta the question. Great job on your wins!!
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I’m still adjusting to the finger picks as well. Kind of like running with ankle weights on.
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For me @markvguitar , those finger picks are like me being Edward Scissorhands trying to play guitar😱 – not working out well😲 So I’m in the same boat as @Loraine at this point in my guitar 🎸journey – OK with the thumb pick, but…..🤔
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The fingerpicks are really hard to get used too. Muddling through though.
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