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It takes about 6 months. It also helps to hold the g in the 3 finger shape if your switching to or from c

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What seems nearly impossible now eventually becomes mindless instinct. Doesnt happen over night but one day you look back and realize how far you have come without ever noticing the progress along the way because it is so small and incremental

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I use my thumb mostly to mute the low E when strumming an open A, C, or D chord in case i miss and hit extra strings. Mute it just right and it gives some extra thump in the bass when you do hit it

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Someone once told me that power chords are the poor mans barre chords lol.

Technically the 5 string barre chords are power chords though

They all have their place. Power chords sound powerful in metal and rock genres. Barres are more likes in jazz and blues. Most of the time if i use barre chords im not really using the e and b string anyway but at least they are fretted (correct to the chord) if i accidently hit them

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I would wait to take the course until later. It’s mostly useful for people trying to either play by ear or write their own music. You would probably have no use for it until you reach the intermediate stage. It’s basically two different things. It teaches you how to find the notes in key of a song by ear but of course you can always cheat and just look this up on the Internet nowadays, and the other half of it shows you how to make alternate chord shapes in other places on the neck besides just the open positions using the cage method which is more advanced than most people will ever need, unless of course attempting to compose your own music

All in all it’s worth taking if you’re interested in music theory and understanding the concepts behind the music but as a beginner it’s probably a little too advanced

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It’s worth polishing the frets every once in a while. I use one of the Music Nomad kits.

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LGB

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I use this alot and I call it the lazy g chord. You typically fret the g on the low E and mute the A string. Does t sound too much different. Usually both the high e and bstrings are played at the third fret as usual. Sometimes its even played by just fretting the 3rd fret on the e strings using two fingers instead of 3. But basically the blue grass g just mutes the A string.

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Did you try any of the special guitar string cleaning cloths or just a regular cloth I’m curious if there’s a difference

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I usually just wash my hands if they are oily and dont worry about it. Santa Cruz strings are coated and seem to last alot longer than normal strings before losinf their tone.

I am curious if the string cleaning clothes sold at guitar stores have a special chemical on them or are they just regular cotton rags

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This site doesn’t have much in the way of strumming other than a brief introduction to boom chicka strum. There are a lot of videos on YouTube about strumming. It’s mainly about being able to do a pattern and get your hand to go on auto pilot. The hardest thing for me to learn about strumming was developing a super light touch on the strings because a heavy hand makes everything buzz really bad. Strumming really is about developing touch so that you can have dynamic and volume instead of playing at maximum volume all the time and having nowhere left to go which was my problem

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Did you happen to buy the fretboard wizard course? If you did you get access to that for life and apparently you can also still get into the forums.

I didn’t renew my membership after three times around but i guess since i have fretboard wizard I can still access the forums. Everything else except for the acoustic tuesday show link has been cut off for me

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A big difference is that closed chords like barre chords for example can be slid up and down the neck to produce other notes using the same shape. Barre at fret three is a g, slide up to fret five and it is an A.

If you move an open chord further up the neck it sounds bad because you didnt slide the open strings along with the fretted strings, except in the case of using a capo

[That_Guy]

My car tries to balance on my knee then squeeze between me and the guitar. Sometimes i have to lock her out

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And another pro tip is if you set the relief so that the neck is bent over backwards it turns your guitar into a free resonator!