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TACiversary VI- Don’t drink downstream from the herd.
Thanks to all my fellow TAC journey companions for sharing your music, advice, and wins which are a great encouragement along the way. You know who you are. And thanks to Tony, Levi, Victoria and whomever else that keeps this path groomed for us all to enjoy.
1. Where were you with guitar when you joined? Since this is my 6thTACiversary, I am modifying this response to where were you with guitar at your 5th TACivesary?
I was starting to improvise and had a handful of back pocket finger picking and flat-picking songs. Scale patterns were becoming familiar under my fingers, I was starting to improvise and add licks and runs. I had completed Fretboard Wizard original and revised version. I had worked through “No Bull Music Theory for Guitarist” by James Shipway Volumes One and Two. I was experimenting with alternate tunings. I was having a boat load of fun.
?2. What are three things you can do now that you couldn’t do before my 5th TACiversary?
1) Play slowly through Alice’s Restaurant and sing one verse (not the whole story thing.)
2) Play a Christmas, Valentine’s, and St. Patrick’s Day set list.
3) Starting to feel rather than think through transitions and fills; meaning the muscle memory is taking over on some scales and chord transitions and bass runs.
3. Complete this statement: It would be amazing if this time next year?
1) I can finger pick, “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling” which I heard at the Fretboard Summit. And I will have learned to flat pick Fisher’s Hornpipe from Tony’s Song Vault.
2) Worked myself into our church worship team as a rhythm guitarist.
3) Conquered the Mississippi Timing exercise.
4) Removed much of the overhead in recording songs. I can currently do it, but it is always a hard obstacle, I don’t so often because of the overhead of the effort.
5) Completed “No Bull Music Theory for Guitarist” by James Shipway Volume 3 book.
6) Developed a systemic review process to retain songs.
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albert_d. Reason: HIdden characters came in from word processing software
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Woo hoo, happy 6th TACiversary!! I appreciate you always being there for me and for others. It’s been nice to be on this journey with you and it’s good to see someone that still causes it a TACiversary like I do. I still can’t finger pic though.
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Congrats on number 6 @albert_d ! I’m happy to see that you navigated through the heard and made it to the upstream side – one hellofa journey for sure (lol). Happy TACiversary Albert, I wish you many more.
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Thanks to you all. It is nice to have fellow travelers on this guitar journey. We have all come to appreciate the joy of a regularly enriching habit. I also include in this a better understanding of what is actually happening. I appreciate those moments where the theory comes poking its head up and says, “See. That how I work! Why did it take you so long to figure me out?”
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Haha! Thanks for this post @albert_d !
A little disappointed we aren’t going to hear your 18 minute version of Alice’s Restaurant posted here!
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@albert_d I’m wondering what those obstacles (overhead) you have in recording songs truly are?
Here is the setup that I have that has made it much simpler for me: I use an old phone rather than than the one I actually have in service with my cell provider. It’s a Google Pixel so it has a decent camera even though it’s about 5 years old.
I can just keep that phone in my desk, I’ve got a tripod standing next to me as well where I can just pop it in when I want to record myself. I have it connected to my home network and logged into my google account. I’ve set up google photos to automatically upload all my photos and videos so that I can access them from any device. I can transfer the video to YouTube directly from the old phone immediately after recording. But also if I wait a bit everything will sync and I can make that transfer from my laptop.
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@albert_d : Congratulations!! You have come far! You will go further!!! You have found the key to success. Wonderful inspirations in your Q & A! Alice’s restaurant is part of my guitar origin story. I had a teacher who would play this for us an make up his version with us as characters and use the plot frame but change it so it entertained 10 year olds. My, my we had fun with that song and I became even more convinced I was going to play guitar. There were two guitars on the wall you could play anytime and there was one in a case you needed to ask permission to play. It was an exceptional year in my recollections.
Glad to be sharing space on the music road with you! Keep your stone rolling!
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Happy 6th TACiversary @albert_d may you have many more!
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