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100 days in still no music.
Now looking at the title of my post you would think I am down on TAC, but I am not. In 100 days I have learned quit a bit. My issue that I need help from my fellow TAC musicians, when where doing the finger picking I was picking some of it up…it all started making sense. now we are back to flatpicking and it sounds terrible. No matter how slow I do the play thru I can’t seem to keep up plus it doesn’t sound like what Tony is playing. I can make the cords pretty good but I can’t get my right hand to catch up. I hear the rhythm in my head but not in my hand. 🙂 Any suggestions on flatpicking like hitting the strings to hard, and any tips to help me make the stuff Tony is playing to sound more like music. I am really fired up because I feel like I am close to putting it together and being able to play albeit slow.
HELP ME TAC FRIENDS.
Thanks Rob
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I have found that if i am willing to put in the time and practice each days lesson and not get too worried that i might not be getting it 100%, instead just go onto the next weeks instruction, over time i have gotten better at learning the stuff. Do i sound like Tony? No, but i have diversified my guitar playing and more importantly i am learning the days lesson faster….all these techniques are goid to fiddle with. I never thought i could play a solo but now i can at least play something that sounds like a solo!
Keep on working. Sound like Rob!
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When trying to play music you are trying to do 2 things at once. The correct fingering with your fretting hand and the correct picking with your other hand. Trying to learn both at once is very difficult and the brain doesn’t learn very well when you have these 2 inputs competing for attention.
The best practice for this is to isolate the 2 hands and practice each individually. If you want to improve picking accurately only use your picking hand and do drills just focusing on accurate picking. Just a few minutes a day of this isolated practice will result in fairly quick improvement.
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Because I am obstinate and a finger picker I have not learned the flatpicking lessons UNTIL I saw something on YouTube where they used their thumb pick as a flat pic. After spasms I started doing it. Voila ( kind of) I am now doing the the flatpicking lesson ok mostly and enjoying using my thumb pick at the same time.
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Thanks to all that replied. As usual you all are an inspiration.
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Hi Rob, the biggest way you could accelerate your progress may be to slow down even more. If you take your beats down to 30 or 40 bpm it is 2 ish seconds per beat. The player will not do this. You will have to learn and then use a Metronome. I find myself at this speed frequently when learning new technique or unfamiliar sequence. The point of this is to get to a speed where both your mind and hands are relaxed and “in the groove.” Once the groove feeling is noted, slowly increase the speed. Going back is sometimes necessary too. This is the fun part: find that razor thin line of groove sense and slowly start moving it.
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