Moose408
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Tony changed things last year and I believe the progress parties are a thing of the past. There was a brief flurry of other online topics and get togethers about 9 months ago but those too have stopped.
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Great job getting your first one recorded. That’s the hard one. Look forward to many more.
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I only have 2 songs I feel are performance ready, everything else is a work in progress and has been for months.
Performance ready
- Mad World
- Stuck in the Middle with You
In Process but close
- California Dreaming
- Hotel California
- Coconut
- Wild Thing
Relatively New- Sunshine of Your Love
- Sweet Home Alabama
- Don’t Fear the Reaper
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There is so much to learn and so many different resources that it can be challenging. I started off doing 3 courses at once plus jumping around learning songs. I am currently doing 2 courses TAC and highly structured program and have made great progress.
The one thing that helped me the most is having a written practice routine for the week. It makes sure I keep skills in the rotation and that I’m not just chasing the shiny object. If I want to learn a new song then it goes in the routine where I might practice chord transitions every other day and timing or intro riff the other days. It will stay in the routine until often for months until I get proficient with it or get sick of it.
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If you alter the fingering for a chord it is basically learning a new chord. You will have to spend the time to train the brain for that new fingering. If you learn the chord one way it is often then a little quicker when you change it but not by much.
It does take a lot of time and focused practice to get a chord shape into “muscle memory”.
There is great book on how the brain learns The Laws of Brainjo. Worth a read if you are interested in that sort of thing. It really helped me in my guitar journey.
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That’s the correct attitude. Just take from the challenges what you can and move on. I’ve been here a year and I found this past week’s challenge difficult. But even though I was able to do the whole thing I got a few little pieces from it. I should do even better next time it comes around.
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@langerking She was very good. Mine is about a 10th as good.
https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/topic/my-first-time-posting-here-mad-world/
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I posted Mad World right around July 1st.
And may never post Hotel California because I don’t want my YouTube channel to be deleted.
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I really like Horse with No Name but I struggle with 2 things. First having enough endurance to play the entire thing and being able to sing along using the correct strumming pattern. I can sing if I just use down strums but as soon as I incorporate the up strum portion for the 2nd chord I lose my timing and can’t sing.
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“All the pent shapes are chords, in fact every pent scale has within it a chord/triad and once you are aware it is easy to see the corresponding CAGED chord shapes in every scale shape.”
Wow. Lightbulb moment for me there. Thanks Jeff!
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@jumpinjeff was explaining barre chords which are described on Day 1 of Week 3.
What you were asking about was the patterns described in Week 1 Day 1. Those patterns are not about chords but how to located notes on the fretboard. Once you have 1 note, you can use the patterns to find the same note at other locations on the fretboard.
Chords comes later I believe in Week 2
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That’s a great example, the normal G chord has moved into your subconscious while the new one has not so you have to think about it and struggle with it.
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I actually think looks are just as important as feel and sound. You have to want to play it.
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I’m buying strings in Amazon from now on.
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