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Happy TACiversary and congratulations on your guitar journey @Carnelia . Thanks for sharing your success and inspiring story regarding your experience with TAC!
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Congrats on a great win @Ash1969 ! Having and implementing a consistent guitar routine as well as having fun is really important to your guitar journey. Keep it going!
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Hi @Loraine I really enjoyed listening to your performance. Your “thumb” strumming sounded great. Your timing and consistency of your strumming are really improving along with your sense of timing. I continue to hear more and more inflection in your voice as your sing. This song seemed to have a lot of lyrics packed into it and you navigated them very well. Nice job and thanks for sharing!
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Hi @the-old-coach , I have a number of electrics in my guitarsenal and here is my take on your question: playing an electric has a definite different feel than playing an acoustic. Not better or worse, just different. Given the setup of the guitar you may find the notes easier to fret on an electric. The electronics (pickups, pickup switches, amp and effects (on the amp or with pedals (if you have them) may lead to “rabbit hole syndrome” as there are infinite sounds you can architect. All that said, playing an electric should not negatively impact your acoustic playing or learning. Electrics have 6 stings tuned to the same notes and intervals. The knowledge and skills you have gained on your acoustic will transfer to the electric. Just accept and realize the two types of guitars “play” very differently. And watch out for that “rabbit hole” – it can lead to a lot of “dabbling” for me 🙃.
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Very cool @Cadgirl . Thanks for sharing your “TAC Hacks”. I find them helpful and very useful!
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Congratulations @KayMesser ! Hitting 100 days is a great win and tells you you are consistently applying your routine and having fun!
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Great wins @Elaine ! Congrats!
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Hi @Cadgirl , thanks for taking your time to watch the improv and provide your feedback. It is very much appreciated! Thanks also for your comments in the studio. I really like the space and all of my guitars are out on stands ready to play. Also, all the pieces of my recording setup are out, positioned and ready to go. I feel really fortunate to have the space and setup.
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Hi @Cadgirl , my guitar room is in the basement. It is about 12′ x 15′. The room is fully finished (ie. Insulation, drywall, carpeted floor, doors to close off from rest of basement). The humidity in the summer runs around 40 to 45. In the winter it can drop to 35. This winter I purchased a small humidifier and target between 40 to 45. So far so good. I don’t know a lot about humidifiers and so went with something lower cost to see how it worked. I bought LEVOIT LV600HH 6L Warm and Cool Mist Ultrasonic HumidifierLEVOIT LV600HH 6L Warm and Cool Mist Ultrasonic Humidifier. So far so good.So far so good.
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Thanks TOC!
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Hi @jenbicimsn-com , great advice in the posts above. I offer a potential resource of good guitar play posture and relaxing when playing. Judy Minot is an author and musician tht ha written a helpful book full of tips that apply to guitar and actually. Life in general. Her book is call “Best Practice”’ and her web site is https://www.judyminot.com/bestpractice. Her book may also be purchased on Amazon. Best to you in finding a solution!
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Hi @ReZ , good advice for the above posts. Also you may want to look closely at the fingering that Tony uses in the instruction videos. At time he definitely has a “finger crowding” challenge on certain chords and has adjusted the order of the fingers he is using as well as the position and angle of his fingers on the frets. Tony also of gives the advice of moving your palm to as close to the underside of the guitar neck as possible as this creates a more natural curl to your fretting fingers which may help. He also suggests an exercise where you have your fretting hand on your knee, and begin a countdown from 5. When you begin the countdown immediately begin to get your fretting hand positioned so that at 5 you can strum out a clean chord. Once you have that down start the countdown at 4 and so on until you can finger the chord very quickly and cleanly. Keep at it and have fun!
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Hi @Kim-Fitz and thanks for taking the time to watch the post and for your feedback. It took about 30 minutes over all. The main riff came pretty quickly and then I started to noddle around with the scales to come up with the rest of it.
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Hi @SherryH and thank you for taking the time to watch the post and provide your feedback. I truly appreciate it. We are all in our own guitar journey. The main things are to consistently Si your guitar routine and have fun!
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Hi @stevieblues and thanks for taking the time to watch the post and provide your encouragement and support. I really appreciate it!