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Exercises for an old and returning guitar student.
Tony, the quick start is impressive and has woken up my fingers. I can’t believe you can play the ascending and descending exercises at 180 BPM! That’s insane. Right now I can play the exercises at 50 Bpm and the Blues rift at 50 bpm but still having problems with clarity. Playing with enthusiasm but need more work on proficiency and to toughen up my old fingers. Finally have my acoustic guitar, a Taylor 114CE, and my metronome, a Korg KDM-3.
<font face=”inherit”>I can’t wait to to start the 30 days to play </font>challenge<font face=”inherit”>, or </font>perhaps<font face=”inherit”> I am confusing the quick start with the 30 days to play challenge? Doesn’t matter, you have </font>invigorated<font face=”inherit”> my desire to play! Still slow and waiting for the </font>callouses<font face=”inherit”> to build on my fingers but with my daily TAC challenge that will come sooner than later. I have to </font>start<font face=”inherit”> </font>again<font face=”inherit”> somewhere and now with your TAC I am ready and willing. </font>
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</font><font face=”inherit”>Thus far I am playing approximately 45 min. to an hour per day but that is </font>because<font face=”inherit”> I am so excited at </font>reentering the world of musicians. As a side note, I grew up with piano lessons with a wind up metronome that required time to be adjusted with moving a weight up or down on a swinging arm. Wish I still had that old metronome but it’s is gone with the wind!
I do have a question however, should I retake the quick start lessons for proficiency or should I move on to the 30 days to play? I am having a hard time to replay quick start lessons 1-5.
Mike
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Welcome to the TAC community @jjmhobbscomcast-net ! You’re off to a great start with the Quick Start Guide. My suggestion is to keep moving forward and do the 30 days to play. You’ll learn quite a bit during the course, and you’ll have a lot of fun playing things immediately.
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I agree with @loraine that best to do the 30 Day Challenge first which will start to build up your skills and give you a focus to your new guitar routine. Remember you do not have to be able to play everything perfectly, just start to get to grips with things and keep moving on. You can come back to things as often as you like but do keep moving forward through that challenge day by day as it will give you a flavour of all the skills to use as you progress through the year. I am at the end of year 1 this week and I am staggered at how far I have come. Still learning but my advice is trust in the process and also if you have problems we (your follow TAC members) have probably all experienced the same thing at some point so feel free to ask questions on the forums. Good luck! Darren [Moonhare] 🤟😎🎸
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