Cadgirl
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It is a ‘win’. Getting over your shyness of playing any instrument in front of people is tough. Keep it up, I have to start doing the same thing.
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Great Job! Candy Hearts wasn’t an easy challenge.
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Hi @OldDawg , I played guitar when I was much younger. Very surprised when I started back what i forgot. I still remembered the chords but everything else was a wash. I think having a routine that I wrote down everyday helped me get back into guitar playing.
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You have to find a guitar that fits. For my practice, I use a 1/2 size Cordoba (nylon string) guitar. The neck is shorter and the strings don’t kill my fingers, so I can practice longer. Don’t think you have to spend a lot of money either. I bought my Cordoba for $65 on sale. Give yourself a year before you start laying out good money for a guitar and make yourself a pest at the neighborhood guitar store and try them all out. Make some notes on the Pros and Cons. By the way, a 1/2 size guitar isn’t 1/2 size, it’s about 5″ shorter than a full size. Make it easy to sit in front of the computer doing those challenges. Good Luck
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I’m with @Loraine , those are all good courses. Remember with the daily challenge, when the month is up those challenges disappear. I save them to my hard drive in a folder called, Daily Challenge. The naming follows this format; ‘date-name of the challenge-technique’. For an example I saved today challenge as “2-15-2022 Head-Over-Heels GUITAR LICK.pdf”. Also if it’s a lick that is confusing, Take your IPhone out and make a video out of it and save it in the same folder. We used to be able to download the video but those days are gone. You’ll be surprised how fast you forgot how he did a confusing lick. Good luck and welcome to TAC.
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@Loraine , I’m so sorry that you have been placed on probation. I know I have done the same thing many times. Since this is basically a ‘building skills’ site. I wouldn’t have thought mentioning a site that could give access to whole songs would be a problem. We’ll have to get you an icon for ‘added knowledge base’. Thanks for all the help you have given to us so far. I’m sure you know we all look foreword for your knowledge and insight.
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@MikeGaurnier , then bad boy Mike throws in Marty and Justin (2 great sites). It’s getting worse and worse.
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@Loraine , really? You can’t even mention another forum for us to meet at. One that has VOMs?
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It’s just going to take practice. It might not be your guitar at all, give it time, try to sit down a few times a day and just play the scales. Or look up some intros to songs. You can google ‘intro to I Walk the Line’. You’ll be able to find a tab sheet on just how to run through it. Just practice, keep those fingers moving and before you know it, you’ll be the one giving advise to new members. If you haven’t all ready put light gauge strings on your guitar. If you don’t know how, go to a guitar store and ask if they’d do it for you. Or help you do it. Good Luck
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Very good @Brian2501, I think this is a super idea what you are doing.
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Thanks, I think it really will work out well for me.
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I sure plan on it @stevieblues . I’m getting intrigued with the TAC members posting their own songs. That might be next on my list. 🙂
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BUSTED!!
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ha ha ha , good name. @Loraine you’ll have to black out the lens on your glasses when you are posting.
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I was just on a forum that was having the same type of issue. Their Technical Support said it could be a bug. So… there could be a bug? But I’ll do as you ask and send issue to Tech Support if it comes up again.