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Yes, it says I made a comment. I took a chance and changed ONE word that made my comment easier to understand. And bang, gone! I love TAC. I love Tony’s help and instruction. I love the design of the new platform. But I hate this problem, whatever causes it.
Anyway, I don’t have experience with the “finger stretchers” sold on Amazon. And I don’t give a hoot.
My “biggest” problem is I didn’t start playing as a kid when my body was developing.
But, it turns out, that’s not really my biggest problem. My biggest problem is thinking I need to keep learning when I already know enough to play the guitar well enough to entertain myself and others.
So lately, I’ve gone back to basics. After all these years, it turns out I can make my chords more precisely more often. I can work on chord transitions a lot more than I ever did. I can work on timing, using a metronome. I can work on rhythm, learning to be intuitive with new rhythms. I can work on adding space, which not only gives interesting variety to my playing, but makes getting to chords easier. I can learn new chord shapes. I can learn to play partial chords. I can learn new picking patterns, whether I finger pick or flat pick. Oh, yeah, I can do both finger picking and flat picking, not just one or the other.
That’s not even an exhaustive list. All of that and more can help me be a better guitar player… without changing my anatomy. 😄
MG 😀 (This time, I’m gonna proof read BEFORE I hit the “post” button.)