Cadgirl
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I have a GS Mini myself and love it. I don’t think i’ll ever go back to a full size guitar. The guitar I use the most is a 1/2 size Cordoba Classical guitar. A little smaller than the GS-Mini and nylon strings. I picked it up super cheap on sale for $65. I use it all the time!! Don’t give up, you’ll love your GS-Mini, but if you still have some issues with those fingers look around for a used 1/2 size nylon string model. Good Luck!
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That was a great song to start the day with 😉
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Excellent recording. I have been practicing the same song and always skip the Interlude between the lyrics. You included it and it sounded AWESOME!
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Finishing the Fretboard Wizard is a great accomplishment. I have done it a couple of times now and still learn something new. I’ll be looking for that Bluegrass Video 🙂
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I have done and redone and redone the Fretboard Wizard and each time, I understand a little more. I had to use the TAC community a number of times when taking it. If you get overwhelmed, just walk away for a few days. But, go back to it! Tony will mention something in his Daily Challenge about the ‘key is in D Major’ and the chords are something like ‘D, Em, F#m, G, A, Bm C#dim’. That is a Deer in the headlight moment! If I hadn’t had the community I would have quit! When you get stumped, Just put in the title field, fretboard Wizard and where you are stuck. Members will get back with you. Take notes so you can look through your notes (that helped me). Good luck.
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My goal this year is to memorize at least 10 songs. I’m up to 4 songs, almost 5. I play them everyday for at least 5 minutes (the ones I know that is). The ones on my ‘to learn list’ I play over and over and over. I also ramped up my playing time to 2 hours a day (sounds like a lot, but so far so good). I track all the songs that I do play. If someone were to say to me….. “Hey Denise, I hear you play the guitar, Can you play us a couple of songs”. I don’t want to say no, i can’t. I have to have sheet music to do that. As for memorizing I think it’s your ears and fingers. I can finger pick Alice’s Restaurant and Black Bird. I swear I couldn’t tell you how it’s played. I could show you thou. Good Luck and you’ll come up with a good system. I’d start with some type of tracking system.
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Great to hear it @Elaine.
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I pulled out my Martin D28. I figured it’s a big guitar and about the size the 12s come in. It’s a beast, I forgot how it was to play. Sounds great, but really tough on the fingers. Then I started thinking about …. What if there were 12 strings on this beast, EGAD!! So I am going to be shopping at some stores that carry 12s. Thanks Carol-3M-Stillhand, I have been watching a lot of videos on the Taylor 562 which is a Grand Concert size, but can’t find one to actually try out. I’m a finger-picker and that concerns me a little with buying a 12. Just happens a store about an hour from me has 8 in stock, some new, some used, some big, some small (well, smaller). So that will give me an idea if I should take the plunge or not. @Mark, I’m still laughing at your 12-string update. Thanks everyone for all the posts.
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There are some songs that are just way too fast. I’m concentrating on finger picking. I don’t know how their fingers could possibly fly over the strings like they do. I have to set the metronome down maybe 20 (or more) BPM to be able to get all the picks in. It really seems to be helping me thou. Forcing me to do better.
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AWESOME SITE!! I use ‘ultimate-guitar’ all the time! Nice because you can also pull the site up on your IPhone. There are times I’m not by my computer, but you can bet your butt I do have my IPhone! Thanks @That_Guy
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Here is something you could try. @albert_d and @Kristin1
I save all my songs on my computer. I have a folder called Songs, in that folder I store all my individual songs. These individual folders are named with the Song Writer, The name of the song, what style of playing (is it strummed or finger picked), How hard is the song to play (Hard, Intermediate or Easy. You have 255 characters to name a folder or a file name. You could add in the name ‘practice’ or whatever you want to name it. Then just do a search. If you want to play Bob Dylan songs, search for Dylan. Do you want to practice some songs in D-Tuning, search for D-Tuning. I attached a photo where I had just search for EASY.
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oh course in a good way. we all go through it. It will get better with time. I noticed that since playing my Martin my fingers are getting stronger when I play my Taylor GS mini.
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WOW, thanks. I was just on the Guild site and what a nice collection of 12 strings. The Eastman like you said, affordable and solid wood. I am only planning on Solid wood at this point. I’m not in a hurry so I can shop around for a 12.
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I am also looking at 12 strings. I’m most interested in finger style and I was wondering how that would be with a 12. I haven’t purchased one yet, still investigating but i think i am going to start looking at stores that have a few 12s in stock to play before that big purchase. Thanks for you input.