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How I TAC – Niels
How many days per week do you play?
I play every day (except when I travel without a guitar), as I am so fortunate to have retired four years ago.What time of day do you play?
Whenever I feel like it, starting in the morning.
I play 3-5 times during the day for at least 10 minutes, but often more.Where do you play?
We have a guest room which doubles as a guitar den.
I mostly play in this room, but often practice scales in the living room while watching TV with my wife.
Previously I did the latter on a heavy, unplugged electric guitar, but I have recently acquired a Yamaha Silent guitar, which is light as a feather – great improvement.
Or I play outside on the patio.What was your guitar life like before having a guitar routine & how has implementing a consistent guitar routine helped you
I started having a guitar routine, when I joined TAC shortly after retiring.
Before that I played seldomly, and I had had no real guitar progress for several years.
I am now clearly progressing, especially with flatpicking, which I could not do before joining TAC.
It is also some sort of feedback loop, as I have lots of fun learning new stuff, which makes me want to play more.
My fourth year in TAC is devoted to improvisation, and I am convinced that one of the prerequisites to this is to know the fretboard thoroughly, so every day I run an app on my iPad placing 100 random notes on the fretboard, and after nine months this is really showing an effect.What is one non-guitar item that is a must have in your guitar routine?
The best way to learn something is to make your own practice material, so every day I use a small binder with my own exercises, covering crosspicking, scales and scale connectivity for position changes.
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Hi @Niels , sounds like a nice routine.💙 What is the app you are using to generate random notes on the fretboard? I would like to try something like that. 😎
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@Niels , love the schedule! I love this too, …”My fourth year in TAC is devoted to improvisation, and I am convinced that one of the prerequisites to this is to know the fretboard thoroughly, so every day I run an app on my iPad placing 100 random notes on the fretboard, and after nine months this is really showing an effect.”……I subscribe to a dude who does backing tracks and he puts the chords in. I have taken to playing the tritone on the change and including whatever extensions he puts on. I am still fairly slow when I get a new track but once I get everything located it turns quite musical. I never met an improv I didn’t like.
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Your bonus self-made binder makes sense. May have to join that TAC, guitar cult.
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Hi @Bill_Brown
The name of the app is “Fretuoso”, and I use the free version.
It looks like this in the AppStore (“Uddannelse” is Danish for “Education”):
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@Niels , “Thank You”🏆
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I’ll look into this Niels. Thanks for posting your routine. Lots of good approaches in there! I also see that based on your feline entourage you are also a highly accomplished cat herder 😺
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