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The Skill Courses include 5-day challenges. If you’re so inclined to move ahead the bass walk challenges are accessible always.
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Just curious if the lessons get more difficult over time like the lessons just need a bit more
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I don’t understand what the method is of choosing the notes for the base walk. There must be something obvious about it but I haven’t grasped that yet. Maybe someone can enlighten me?
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I found that just playing the 3 chords at the right time was challenging enough without the extra notes. I considered playing the 3 chords a win. But I was happy enough to grasp the principle behind the bass walk.
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Glad I got to this today as I have playing catch up with the daily challenges but decided to let that go for the time being and stay current with these lessons as they post. Had fun with this one, now back to the past ones.
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Good fun and practice
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My 90 day goal includes improving my base walks. Perfect lesson to keep working on.
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I was tired today and kind of didn’t feel like playing, but after watching the lesson video I thought I had to at least get some time in today and try it. At first it was a little challenging but then I started to have fun with it. Found playing it at the slower speed was more difficult than faster. Even played after it was over faster than2x speed, with a walk down form D to C. Love my Guitar!
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I got how to do the base walks – not sure i got the formula for figuring others
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My question too!
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This was a nice review.
Another nice bass walk back to the G is on the A string, B, A, G chica, instead of the E string E, F#, G chica.
I hope that made sense.
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It did. Nice! Thanks!
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Yes, GaryRC, I agree! Variety!
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i have difficulty with chord shapes and progression, timely switches. I found this actually helped! fun!
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Love the bass walks with the boom chic! Already had the G and C down from previous challenges but needed the D chord! Great day!
Wanted to throw this out there to see if I’m not the only one…. When it comes to learning songs, I have discovered that for me it’s much easier to keep track of rhythm with songs that have boom chic strum and or bass walks. Trying to break away from this crutch and learn different strum patterns. I’m sure my Saturday night guitar geeks would appreciate it too. LOL! 🙂 -
1.75 is the best I could do, but I’m happy about that. Good start of the week!
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Fun lesson!
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A little bumpy but taking the win and marking complete without mastery for day 1. Will get back to it.
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Enjoyed the experience and will continue to work on it! Good start to our first week in Arizona:)
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Good lessons, wish Tony gave more details about what notes to play in the different keys, or at least the logic go go from A to D as an example.
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Have a great Monday evening everyone! 🙂
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I had trouble with going from the bass walk to the transition on the G chord to the C chord. I guess I had trouble with each one of the transitions. I’ll get it down eventually.
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Got it mostly, working on the 2nd last measure.
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What a nice sounding way to start out the week!
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Good lesson and we have done some of the base walks before so this was a good review.
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!st time was ever able to Gert to 2X on 1st day. Also a fun add-on, I used a C-7 instead and tapped a G instead of E.. [D string, 2nd ftet].
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Good session.
Bass walks are fun and do break up the chord changes to. make them more alice. -
Had fun with this today! done this one before so this seemed like review. Got up to the 2.0 so was pleased. Miss the 2 beat note sometimes. The D-G transition became easier when I anchored the ring & pinkie first on fret 3. Keep Strumming!!
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Nope. Gonna have to take it phrase by phrase.
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Pick accuracy is pretty difficult here. Getting smoother with some practice. Great lesson.
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I can keep up with my dad now!
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Yes went @2x all good here
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I’ve had the pleasure of doing this bass walk many times. Now it’s just part of my playing progression in many songs when making cords changes.
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This is kind of a refresher for me, went well
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Really enjoyed this
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Current day streak is 400. Counter reads 16, longest streak of 160 or so. It was one year continuous Christmas day, counter then was 30. Irritating, because it was an incentive. I always log in and glean something every day, and pick up guitar at least twice, so that’s what is important. Still loving TAC and the community. My 50 year old son is just starting to play, and I’m encouraging him to join.
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Congrats on the streak @TCice and congrats for encouraging your son!
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Love this exercise!
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Big challenge for me today in guitar picking accuracy and transitioning from chord to chord. My fingers struggle to get into the right position smoothly. It’s “newbie-itus” for sure. Tony is an inspiration to watch as he doesn’t look at his fretboard or picking hand during his lesson and yet everything is clean and clear. Wow, how many hours will it take to get to that place?
I love the music theory aspects. Today was a great refresher exercise in building the G scale, building the chord triads in G, and identifying the chord and base walk notes on the fretboard.
Good stuff, thank you TAC!!!
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Wait a minute… I see that Tony does use a G as the C bass note.
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This is something I have always wanted to learn. So, again, a perfectly timed lesson. I am wondering, however, why the C bass note is an E note and not a G note as that is the fifth of that chord. Will the bass of C eventually become a G note of some sort. Help and thanks, Tony!
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Jenny I played the g bass note by moving my fretting ring finger to the E string. That’s how I usually see this chord played in “ boom chicka” style. I’m guessing that’s more complicated than Tony wanted for the lesson, so he simplified it with the E bass. Either sounds good but I like the G better.
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I like this one have done this challenge many times over the years at TAC . I will add it to my G and C chord Work been having trouble with this chords the last 6 months.
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Perfect timing! I just finished a set with our worship team and I noticed the electric guitarist was doing these walkdowns and thought “I gotta learn those somewhere down the line…” Whoo hoo, today began “somewhere down the line!” The gal who taught me to play showed me one (over 40 years ago) and I’ve used it a lot – but never knew the mechanics of it – so – I’m thrilled by this win! Thanks!
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I enjoyed going over the two note bass walks. Having fun.
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I like this, originally did this 5 day challenge on the weekend of 10/29/2022 so it was a good brush up technique.
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Had a little bit of an emotional breakdown last week: can’t find work, not much cash, still miss my students a little bit (but those feelings are almost gone)
Then took the Tony Robbins free seminar and it helped massively.
In the process of redefining my beliefs and state.
Today is day one of enjoying playing for the fun of it, which hadn’t done in ages, if I’m honest.
Will do the lesson now.
Hope everyone has a great week! ❤️
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Hang in there.
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Walkin’ the walk instead of talk in’ the talk!
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I enjoyed reviewing the bass walk lead-ins for G, C, and D. Was able to take the same principle and figure the bass lead-in for F using notes E and F on the D string (sort of a lightbulb moment).
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Great lesson I need to now incorporate into my songs.
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Good morning TAC family. This is a great lesson, everyone should be able to apply this daily. I really enjoy challenging myself to use the bass walk on all the chords I know and in different progression order. And I think the 2 note window is gonna expand cause every open window needs a plant or pie something in it.
P.S.: in the kindest way with a friendly smile , I’m starting to hate seeing the counter reset to 1 every Monday cause I’m sure I saw it on 7 yesterday and the week before did the same thing. So now I’m wanting to “hide” it cause it’s no longer motivating me. Actually now it has become irritating and I don’t want to see it.
All the positivity here is truly wonderful and has a great affect on my life in total. TAC is about the best and most positive thing and I always look forward to it. Loveyall &
Thanks Tony !! -
This is one of those lessons that worked better for me at a quicker pace, I needed the momentum to carry me along.
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I can’t remember how many times I’ve done this week of challenges, but for all who are new to TAC, these bass walk ups are a must have for your guitar playing tool box. The key to making them work (in time) is paying attention to which fingers to use for which walk ups!
The session counter acknowledged my log-in today so I’m a happy camper. I can’t wait to hear if Nancy ( @Dage ) got a new-to-her OOO15 Street Master, or if she settled for cash. I also want to know if that Sly Fox ( @William-S ) was able to land the “big one” last Friday?-
Good morning, @Bill_Brown, curiosity has piqued my interest, “Big one?”
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Yes @HowardM , the “big one”! Sly said on Friday he was goin’ fishin’ because it was going to be 75 degrees there in Southern Maryland.
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I figured it was either Deer or Fish. Great for Sly. Thanks for the reply.
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You bet I took the guitar.. what a sweet thing…. sat here all last night playing with her…. feeling pretty excited and I agree with you bass walks are a must have I remember when I use to hear my Dad playing them and think Wow… now they are just part of my playing. Also has inspired me to keep painting! LOL.. pays off!! Have a great day Bill (@Bill_Brown) glad your counter is working!
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Happy NGD to you Nancy!
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@Bill_Brown , nope. no big ones, but was able to spend the day at the creek. Crazy weather here. Friday morning it was 67 degrees and by that afternoon it climbed to a high of 80 degrees, so even though no big fish, I did enjoy the day in the sun…
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🙂 🙂
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I always pick up bits of information from these lessons although I have played them before. I hope everyone is doing well, and I can’t wait to read the comments.
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For years I have learned the G chord with 3 fingers. Now the biggest issue is for me to do the 4 finger G chord. It will be my 51st week on TAC and this is the first time on this lesson but others have been similar e.g. Hotel California. If your new this lesson will come in handy going forward. Now back to getting that G chord. Have a great week guitar players!
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I think the 3 finger G (middle, ring & pinky) is a better choice with some of the bass walk transitions @BobMallord . I don’t see (or hear) any advantage to the 4 finger G IMHO 🙂
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Yeah, my buddy from South Africa pointed the four finger one out to me years ago Don’t know how I missed it as it’s really rich sounding.
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I agree with you @Bill_Brown. I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to be good at both forms.
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When I first joined TAC I made myself do the 4 fingered G. I’m happy I did because now I can do the 3 or 4 fingered without thought. I find it also useful when fingering picking as a lot of G arpeggios have that D note and it feels comfortable now. AND Happy TACiversary next week.
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Congratulations, !
Challenge complete
Come back tomorrow for your next challenge
The Skill Courses include 5-day challenges. If you’re so inclined to move ahead the bass walk challenges are accessible always.
Just curious if the lessons get more difficult over time like the lessons just need a bit more
I don’t understand what the method is of choosing the notes for the base walk. There must be something obvious about it but I haven’t grasped that yet. Maybe someone can enlighten me?
I found that just playing the 3 chords at the right time was challenging enough without the extra notes. I considered playing the 3 chords a win. But I was happy enough to grasp the principle behind the bass walk.
Glad I got to this today as I have playing catch up with the daily challenges but decided to let that go for the time being and stay current with these lessons as they post. Had fun with this one, now back to the past ones.
Good fun and practice
My 90 day goal includes improving my base walks. Perfect lesson to keep working on.
I was tired today and kind of didn’t feel like playing, but after watching the lesson video I thought I had to at least get some time in today and try it. At first it was a little challenging but then I started to have fun with it. Found playing it at the slower speed was more difficult than faster. Even played after it was over faster than2x speed, with a walk down form D to C. Love my Guitar!
I got how to do the base walks – not sure i got the formula for figuring others
My question too!
This was a nice review.
Another nice bass walk back to the G is on the A string, B, A, G chica, instead of the E string E, F#, G chica.
I hope that made sense.
Good evening, Folks.
It did. Nice! Thanks!
Yes, GaryRC, I agree! Variety!
i have difficulty with chord shapes and progression, timely switches. I found this actually helped! fun!
Love the bass walks with the boom chic! Already had the G and C down from previous challenges but needed the D chord! Great day!
Wanted to throw this out there to see if I’m not the only one…. When it comes to learning songs, I have discovered that for me it’s much easier to keep track of rhythm with songs that have boom chic strum and or bass walks. Trying to break away from this crutch and learn different strum patterns. I’m sure my Saturday night guitar geeks would appreciate it too. LOL! 🙂
1.75 is the best I could do, but I’m happy about that. Good start of the week!
Fun lesson!
A little bumpy but taking the win and marking complete without mastery for day 1. Will get back to it.
Enjoyed the experience and will continue to work on it! Good start to our first week in Arizona:)
Good lessons, wish Tony gave more details about what notes to play in the different keys, or at least the logic go go from A to D as an example.
Able to complete at 90 bpm, cool
Have a great Monday evening everyone! 🙂
I had trouble with going from the bass walk to the transition on the G chord to the C chord. I guess I had trouble with each one of the transitions. I’ll get it down eventually.
Got it mostly, working on the 2nd last measure.
What a nice sounding way to start out the week!
Good lesson and we have done some of the base walks before so this was a good review.
!st time was ever able to Gert to 2X on 1st day. Also a fun add-on, I used a C-7 instead and tapped a G instead of E.. [D string, 2nd ftet].
Good session.
Bass walks are fun and do break up the chord changes to. make them more alice.
Had fun with this today! done this one before so this seemed like review. Got up to the 2.0 so was pleased. Miss the 2 beat note sometimes. The D-G transition became easier when I anchored the ring & pinkie first on fret 3. Keep Strumming!!
Nope. Gonna have to take it phrase by phrase.
Pick accuracy is pretty difficult here. Getting smoother with some practice. Great lesson.
I can keep up with my dad now!
Yes went @2x all good here
I’ve had the pleasure of doing this bass walk many times. Now it’s just part of my playing progression in many songs when making cords changes.
This is kind of a refresher for me, went well
Really enjoyed this
Current day streak is 400. Counter reads 16, longest streak of 160 or so. It was one year continuous Christmas day, counter then was 30. Irritating, because it was an incentive. I always log in and glean something every day, and pick up guitar at least twice, so that’s what is important. Still loving TAC and the community. My 50 year old son is just starting to play, and I’m encouraging him to join.
Congrats on the streak @TCice and congrats for encouraging your son!
Love this exercise!
Big challenge for me today in guitar picking accuracy and transitioning from chord to chord. My fingers struggle to get into the right position smoothly. It’s “newbie-itus” for sure. Tony is an inspiration to watch as he doesn’t look at his fretboard or picking hand during his lesson and yet everything is clean and clear. Wow, how many hours will it take to get to that place?
I love the music theory aspects. Today was a great refresher exercise in building the G scale, building the chord triads in G, and identifying the chord and base walk notes on the fretboard.
Good stuff, thank you TAC!!!
Wait a minute… I see that Tony does use a G as the C bass note.
This is something I have always wanted to learn. So, again, a perfectly timed lesson. I am wondering, however, why the C bass note is an E note and not a G note as that is the fifth of that chord. Will the bass of C eventually become a G note of some sort. Help and thanks, Tony!
Jenny I played the g bass note by moving my fretting ring finger to the E string. That’s how I usually see this chord played in “ boom chicka” style. I’m guessing that’s more complicated than Tony wanted for the lesson, so he simplified it with the E bass. Either sounds good but I like the G better.
I like this one have done this challenge many times over the years at TAC . I will add it to my G and C chord Work been having trouble with this chords the last 6 months.
Perfect timing! I just finished a set with our worship team and I noticed the electric guitarist was doing these walkdowns and thought “I gotta learn those somewhere down the line…” Whoo hoo, today began “somewhere down the line!” The gal who taught me to play showed me one (over 40 years ago) and I’ve used it a lot – but never knew the mechanics of it – so – I’m thrilled by this win! Thanks!
I enjoyed going over the two note bass walks. Having fun.
I like this, originally did this 5 day challenge on the weekend of 10/29/2022 so it was a good brush up technique.
Had a little bit of an emotional breakdown last week: can’t find work, not much cash, still miss my students a little bit (but those feelings are almost gone)
Then took the Tony Robbins free seminar and it helped massively.
In the process of redefining my beliefs and state.
Today is day one of enjoying playing for the fun of it, which hadn’t done in ages, if I’m honest.
Will do the lesson now.
Hope everyone has a great week! ❤️
Hang in there.
Walkin’ the walk instead of talk in’ the talk!
I enjoyed reviewing the bass walk lead-ins for G, C, and D. Was able to take the same principle and figure the bass lead-in for F using notes E and F on the D string (sort of a lightbulb moment).
Great lesson I need to now incorporate into my songs.
Good morning TAC family. This is a great lesson, everyone should be able to apply this daily. I really enjoy challenging myself to use the bass walk on all the chords I know and in different progression order. And I think the 2 note window is gonna expand cause every open window needs a plant or pie something in it.
P.S.: in the kindest way with a friendly smile , I’m starting to hate seeing the counter reset to 1 every Monday cause I’m sure I saw it on 7 yesterday and the week before did the same thing. So now I’m wanting to “hide” it cause it’s no longer motivating me. Actually now it has become irritating and I don’t want to see it.
All the positivity here is truly wonderful and has a great affect on my life in total. TAC is about the best and most positive thing and I always look forward to it. Loveyall &
Thanks Tony !!
This is one of those lessons that worked better for me at a quicker pace, I needed the momentum to carry me along.
I can’t remember how many times I’ve done this week of challenges, but for all who are new to TAC, these bass walk ups are a must have for your guitar playing tool box. The key to making them work (in time) is paying attention to which fingers to use for which walk ups!
The session counter acknowledged my log-in today so I’m a happy camper. I can’t wait to hear if Nancy ( @Dage ) got a new-to-her OOO15 Street Master, or if she settled for cash. I also want to know if that Sly Fox ( @William-S ) was able to land the “big one” last Friday?
Good morning, @Bill_Brown, curiosity has piqued my interest, “Big one?”
Yes @HowardM , the “big one”! Sly said on Friday he was goin’ fishin’ because it was going to be 75 degrees there in Southern Maryland.
I figured it was either Deer or Fish. Great for Sly. Thanks for the reply.
You bet I took the guitar.. what a sweet thing…. sat here all last night playing with her…. feeling pretty excited and I agree with you bass walks are a must have I remember when I use to hear my Dad playing them and think Wow… now they are just part of my playing. Also has inspired me to keep painting! LOL.. pays off!! Have a great day Bill (@Bill_Brown) glad your counter is working!
Happy NGD to you Nancy!
@Bill_Brown , nope. no big ones, but was able to spend the day at the creek. Crazy weather here. Friday morning it was 67 degrees and by that afternoon it climbed to a high of 80 degrees, so even though no big fish, I did enjoy the day in the sun…
🙂 🙂
I always pick up bits of information from these lessons although I have played them before. I hope everyone is doing well, and I can’t wait to read the comments.
For years I have learned the G chord with 3 fingers. Now the biggest issue is for me to do the 4 finger G chord. It will be my 51st week on TAC and this is the first time on this lesson but others have been similar e.g. Hotel California. If your new this lesson will come in handy going forward. Now back to getting that G chord. Have a great week guitar players!
I think the 3 finger G (middle, ring & pinky) is a better choice with some of the bass walk transitions @BobMallord . I don’t see (or hear) any advantage to the 4 finger G IMHO 🙂
Yeah, my buddy from South Africa pointed the four finger one out to me years ago Don’t know how I missed it as it’s really rich sounding.
I agree with you @Bill_Brown. I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to be good at both forms.
When I first joined TAC I made myself do the 4 fingered G. I’m happy I did because now I can do the 3 or 4 fingered without thought. I find it also useful when fingering picking as a lot of G arpeggios have that D note and it feels comfortable now. AND Happy TACiversary next week.