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I have also noticed that even if you favorite a lesson there is no tab available for it when accessed through favorites

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Its weird how what feels like impossible finger movements become effortless one day. I often felt like i just wasnt cut out for some of the different stuff required of the fretting hand and then the next time when it came around found it rather easy.

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All of this can be very confusing and hard to understand. No one really learns all of it in order at once. Over time you will have aha moments of knowledge here and there that you will connect the dots over time.

Most of music theory doesnt even help to know. Does mario andretti need to know how pistons works in order to drive his car? No. But it is nice to learn.

The letters given to each note are nothing more than reference points to describe where the other notes in the song are in relation to the main note (the key or tonic note)

In the end scales are nothing more than preselected notes that simply sound good together. Play a scale wrong and you will instantly hear that you played the wrong note. The off scale note just doesnt jive with the other notes in the scale. Along time ago…Someone was smart enough to figure out what sounds good together and this was the best way to communicate it in a universal language regardless of instrument being played

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Ps stringsbymail.com has every type of instrument string and brand imaginable at competitive prices shipped right to your door!

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The musical alphabet is a scale. You just don’t necessarily start at the beginning depending what key you are in. The key of C starts halfway through the scale which doesnt matter because the scale repeats when you get to the end.

A is the lowest note, g the highest, and then it repeats in octaves as far as the musical scale is concerned. Basically it just keeps repeating abcdefgabcdefgabcdefgabcdefg . As you go one way it repeats deeper and deeper, the othwr way it repeats higher and higher

The way a guitar is laid out the open chords highest D and the lowest E because tuned to the key of E half the noted are technically in one octave and half in the next. For example a G note should be higher pitch than an A note but the open g on the guitar is actually in the next octave lower so it ends up deeper.

Someone correct me if im worng but The open chords from highest pitch to lowest pitch (as arranged on guitar) areD, C,B,A G,E because the guitar is usually tuned to Concert Pitch EADGBe which makes it centered around the key of E

A piano on the other hand is centered on C and has a much simpler layout.

This is hard to understand and probably not even that important to know. In the end we just try to make pretty noise regardless of what the notes are called.

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Never heard that one. Its like country/blues. Interesting

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“ my first thought after I gained my composure was, “dang I won’t be able to play my guitar””

Lol i think about this all day at work everytime i use a saw. Really really using extra care not to chop my fingers off these days…

For ear training there are many free apps. On the iphone i have tried Earpeggio, eye and ear, mockingbird, and yousician. I believe all are free.

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5 years ago, never in a million years would i believe that i would be listening to country music in the near future. Now this type of music is all i listen to because of the guitar. Love walk ups and walk downs.

Very cool rhythm. This is what I’m working to be better at now. If you play solo for fun rhythm playing is where all the fun is.

I noticed the face at the end where you acknowledged to yourself that it was a good take

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“Is there really more than one way to skin a cat” was my favorite episode of Mythbusters

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It basically means your playing a chord over a different bass note than the normal root

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Pickersgrip.com sells a waxy soap like substance that gives the pick grip. I use it alot

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Check out Django Reinhardt on youtube. Dude only had two working fingers on each hand.

Also Tony had an Acoustic Tuesday show episode awhile ago about amazing world class players that overcame having less fingers

https://youtu.be/S7WfOPeAMLc

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Im teaching myself how to strum too. Starting to crest the hump now…

Let me share a tip. I see most of your strum come from elbow movement instead of wrist movement. Your elbow should t really open and close much.

Try to roll your wrist back and forth for most of the strum movement. Imagine a feather is stuck to honey on your pinky and your trying to shake it off.

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The Santa Cruz strings for whatever reason last twice as long as any other type i have tried.

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Chet and the guys pick over the sound hole but Wow Fahey is almost picking the bridge.