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Congratulations on reaching this milestone, and here is to hundreds more!
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TJ, I’m absolutely not a medical professional of any kind.
What I will suggest, with the caveat that you inquire with a medical professional is work with the simple chromatic scale through however many times you are comfortable with every day. It should help with finger dexterity and strength of your fingers.
Again, I am not a med pro… You probably should really be talking to a PT about it.
I sure do hope you make a complete recovery fast.
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That’s cool to hear. This isn’t really one I struggle with, but there are some others that I certainly did/do, and I am looking forward to seeing them again so that I can compare the messy attempts to where I will be in a year.
Great Win.
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Hi @clguitar I am not sure if what you are looking for is in this skills course, but it should help you on the way.
https://tonypolecastro.com/courses/foundations-of-fretboard-navigation/
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Breedlove is in Oregon. Guild and Tacoma guitar used to be in Washington but…. No longer. Guild is now owned by Cordoba (I think), and manufactured elsewhere. Tacoma guitars isn’t a thing any more as far as I know
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Great write-up! Really good insights into an intensive project. Even when you thought your performance stunk, you played and sang something new every day. No one else I know of here can say the the same. I certainly can’t. I generally bang on one song or one skill until I have at least reached a point where I feel comfortable with it before I share it. That can take days or weeks for me sometimes. The project showed a lot of courage and determination. So I say again congrats you should be proud of each performance, even when it didn’t meet your expectations for yourself.
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CONGRATULATIONS YOU DID IT!!!
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I think a bouquet is in order for the LONG performance you have given us over the last 100 days. Bravo! -
Great Job Michelle! I can’t wait for the finale!!!
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My Non-Professional take…
Get your chord transitions down first. You will always lag or lead the beat until you can move from chord to chord fluidly enough. If you are picking (flat or finger), you also have to develop the timing between your two hands. Before that working on rhythm is like trying to walk and run all in one go.
Once you can get the basic mechanics of just playing the instrument down, then you can turn to a metronome if you want. You can also use backing tracks, the actual song, or a drum track to work on timing. When you do start to learn rhythm and timing, start with making sure you can do a down-strum on each beat, then learn to do a down on the beat, and an up on the “&” count. From there you can then start to learn strumming patterns. There are good resources in the skills section to help with this.
Other more experienced guitarists may chime in with other or better advice, but this is how I go about it with my kids.
Just a fun glimpse into my guitar life with kids…
I am in a position where neither of my kids wants to use the annoying thing. Instead, I find myself, a couple of times a week, just being the metronome for them by chunking muted strings for them in a steady beat (while trying to ignore and pay attention to what they are doing simultaneously so that I don’t speed up or slow down). All smiles and encouragement for them while I die a little inside lol. -
Happy Tacaversarry! Thanks for sharing your story. It’s cool that you built up complimentary skills too
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First Happy Tacaversarry…
Second, it sounds like you are feeling like a ship without a heading at the moment. It would be time to take a breath and ask… What do you want to play on guitar? Who inspires you? What kind of music do you most want to play?
Pick a couple of songs that seem out of reach for you at the moment, then study those songs and what skills you need to develop to play them. From there you can find the courses and exercises you need to work on to build the proficiencies to play the songs. Spend 10 minutes on the dailies and 10 to 20 minutes focusing on your personal goals. That should bump you out of your rut.
I brake my practice into 3 daily short sessions totaling 45-60 minutes. You can do it all in 20 if that works better for you. This approach seems to be working for me. I hope these ideas help.
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Nice!. I wasn’t so careful changing my son’s strings today and skewered my thumb… Ever so careful beats complacent any day. 😛
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Ha! I never thought of those mnemonics for timing. Neat, I’m going to use that!
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Great job making space in that song @Michelle-PSL really well done !
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I hope once the golden picks are revealed that this is the case. I have 0 envy for the guitars, but I would like to buy a mug actually.
I am however very happy for the contest winners congrats all around, it was fun!