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Omar H. – One year TAC-iversary
I completed 1 year with TAC on May 19, 2021. I have delayed posting my “TAC-iversary” until now, I wanted to gather my thoughts and post something meaningful to myself and hopefully to the TAC community.
1. Where were you with guitar when you joined?
I have played for the better part of 5 decades but was in a rut, not progressing but rather regressing in my playing abilities, playing the same stuff over and over. I had actually become bored with guitar and with music in general. I would probably be best described as an intermediate level guitar player.
I had also removed myself from the music community, for the most part, and my guitar(s) were gathering dust. There were things I wanted to learn but needed direction and instruction to do things I had always wanted but didn’t understand the “how and why”.
2. What are three things you can do now that you couldn’t do before TAC?
Having completed the Fretboard Wizard course I now understand the Nashville number system.
Playing 1 – 4 – 5 ? Yeah I really had no clue before.
When someone would say “we’re playing 1 – 6 – 4 – 5.” I would respond: “That equals 16, so what ?”
I now can transpose quickly from key to key, which was very difficult and time consuming before TAC. The construction of chords and the chord matrix itself has been a “light bulb” moment for me in many ways, it helped me with my first serious attempt to write an original song.
Considering that I am mostly a self-taught “folk & country” musician, I have learned the concepts of “alternate picking” and “alternate tunings” and using “tabs” which I had never really considered before. I am beginning to understand why all those songs I listened to sounded the way they sounded and why I couldn’t reproduce that same sound in standard tuning. Years of frustration finally explained.
3. Complete this statement: “It would be amazing if this time next year I can ________.
get closer to be able to comfortably and confidently play lead at jam sessions and when playing out at gigs. For me this is especially important on Country, Blues and early Rock songs that I have played for years but only played the rhythm parts. That would be most gratifying.”
Omar
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