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Old Man – Benchmark
So it appears that the comments under the Challenge have been removed and now we are to come the the Benchmark forum to share experiences. This happened between yesterday(12/17/24) and today (12/18/24).
Seems strange that the comment area would just suddenly get removed without notice.
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This is my second time through and it’s a bit a struggle still for me.
Monday’s challenge: not pleased with how much I struggled with making clean modified chords. On the D chord I’ve got mutes all over the place as I go through the modifications. The C actually went better, I think the last time my C was worse. G chord was not doable with the pinky on the high E, substituted the ring finger and that worked but doesn’t allow for the modifications in the exercise. F is still pretty much a cluster; the win for today was that I can actually sound an unmodified F mini every now and then, but doing mods and coming back to F-mini is a no go.
Tuesday’s challenge: I’m working on sliding from the NY chord down to the D major. It’s getting better but I’m still not up to speed on it. I am only doing version 1 (starts with base note) completely, but experimenting with version 2 (hammers). I can do the first hammer ok but the second hammer to form the D-chord is completely impossible for me. That ring finger just doesn’t come down with enough velocity while I’m holding the other 2 fingers in their respective positions for the D shape = no hammer effect.
Wednesday’s challenge: This is a lot of scales to learn. I’ve got the D-major under my fingers but I’m not finding it enticing to keep plugging through the rest of the scales after already spending close to 30 minutes on the first one.
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Yeah, I miss being able to make comments, and I don’t want to post videos. If I want to record myself, it’s for my edification only.
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The comment area is back! Most likely the disappearance was part of the maintenance yesterday (which I didn’t know was happening when I started my post here in the Benchmark forum.
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So, Old Man. This is the second time through for me, and while I’ve gotten much better at the chords and rhythm, I still have a hard time going from one chord to another. Last time I noted I could do the first two versions of the lick but not the third with the single notes. Still can’t. I have a heck of a time (a) locating the note, until I can see a pattern, and (b) switching from a chord shape/strum to a single note/pick. I get all uncoordinated. And I can normally do hammer-ons ok, but that hammer-on in the D doesn’t sound at all.
But I muddle through, then reward myself by playing something I know well. So It’s all good.
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