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I keep hitting the wrong open strings. I will keep at it
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was a fun exercise
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Love fingerpicking!
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I really like this exercise! There have been serval times where I can play the lead and the rhythm parts of a song, but when I have to go back and forth between them, I mess up. Perfect exercise for me right now!
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good exercise for pick control enjoyed this
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Love this cross picking!
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I love all of these licks!
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Took a little repetition but I finally nailed it 🙂
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took a while to get accurate , but got it
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Tony mixes it up to make it challenging, tried to memorize but finally read the tabs. Good accuracy and timing wasws good.
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Watch the movement on the D string–it produces the character or movement here. Besides that It’s fairly repetitive until the ending. This one was quite a challenge!
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This one’s a stretch, going to have to go over this quite a few times to be able to actually play this properly. I like it because it’s forcing me to work with the pick in ways I haven’t been able to, and have always wanted to. Back when I taught myself guitar long, long ago, I learned fingerpicking. I was not comfortable with a pick, and didn’t use one. All these years later, the pick is what I’m using 90% of the time in what I’m learning. Definitely progress. I feel much more at ease with the pick, strumming improves as I spend 15 to 30 minutes a day on different lessons which mostly use the pick. I love fingerpicking, .and want to learn much more than I can do now, and being comfortable with the pick is slowly happening as I do things like today’s lesson which initially leaves me like a deer in the headlights … lol …
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Yeah, I don’t know if it is Christmas hangover (no sleep) or what but my brain is not working right on Christmas Day but small win, at least I showed up, I am going to practice my open d tuning Silent Night from Acoustic Guitar Magazine Nov/Dec 2022. Happy Christmas All! Truly Topsy Turvy!
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Ugh…I was following it all perfectly until after the A string bass walk, T doesn’t explain what’s the next few notes before the final C chord. Reading TAB is really confusing so I’m dependent on knowing what’s being done even if it’s just 3 notes. Anyone else have this issue?? Otherwise, it’s a fabulous practice! Thanks!
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I’ve really enjoyed this one, switching between strumming and cross-picking sounds really nice. It encouraged me also to try something similar on different chords. Nice one!
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At first I found this lesson quite challenging but when I rewatch and tried again; it started coming together. Really enjoyed this one.
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6:38 Where did that E flat come from?
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is there a tab for these?
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Bottom right corner of the video there is a music symbol that is very lightly colored and hard to see click on it for the tabs
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I am really digging these lessons. I am struggling with traditional alternate picking, I use, I guess a calamity style picking that I adopted while I was trying to learn Blues.
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I keep hitting the wrong open strings. I will keep at it
was a fun exercise
Love fingerpicking!
I really like this exercise! There have been serval times where I can play the lead and the rhythm parts of a song, but when I have to go back and forth between them, I mess up. Perfect exercise for me right now!
good exercise for pick control enjoyed this
Love this cross picking!
I love all of these licks!
Took a little repetition but I finally nailed it 🙂
took a while to get accurate , but got it
Tony mixes it up to make it challenging, tried to memorize but finally read the tabs. Good accuracy and timing wasws good.
Watch the movement on the D string–it produces the character or movement here. Besides that It’s fairly repetitive until the ending. This one was quite a challenge!
This one’s a stretch, going to have to go over this quite a few times to be able to actually play this properly. I like it because it’s forcing me to work with the pick in ways I haven’t been able to, and have always wanted to. Back when I taught myself guitar long, long ago, I learned fingerpicking. I was not comfortable with a pick, and didn’t use one. All these years later, the pick is what I’m using 90% of the time in what I’m learning. Definitely progress. I feel much more at ease with the pick, strumming improves as I spend 15 to 30 minutes a day on different lessons which mostly use the pick. I love fingerpicking, .and want to learn much more than I can do now, and being comfortable with the pick is slowly happening as I do things like today’s lesson which initially leaves me like a deer in the headlights … lol …
Yeah, I don’t know if it is Christmas hangover (no sleep) or what but my brain is not working right on Christmas Day but small win, at least I showed up, I am going to practice my open d tuning Silent Night from Acoustic Guitar Magazine Nov/Dec 2022. Happy Christmas All! Truly Topsy Turvy!
Ugh…I was following it all perfectly until after the A string bass walk, T doesn’t explain what’s the next few notes before the final C chord. Reading TAB is really confusing so I’m dependent on knowing what’s being done even if it’s just 3 notes. Anyone else have this issue?? Otherwise, it’s a fabulous practice! Thanks!
I’ve really enjoyed this one, switching between strumming and cross-picking sounds really nice. It encouraged me also to try something similar on different chords. Nice one!
At first I found this lesson quite challenging but when I rewatch and tried again; it started coming together. Really enjoyed this one.
6:38 Where did that E flat come from?
is there a tab for these?
Bottom right corner of the video there is a music symbol that is very lightly colored and hard to see click on it for the tabs
I am really digging these lessons. I am struggling with traditional alternate picking, I use, I guess a calamity style picking that I adopted while I was trying to learn Blues.