[albert_d]

Welcome back. I would also suggest you start an easy Christmas song on the side so you can impress loved ones over the Holidays. It makes life more fun.

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@Loraine many of the UT students think Bowie Street in downtown Austin is Austin is named after David Bowie knowing little of Texas history! But then Austin does bill itself as a Music Capital. It is nice to see that your wrist and hands are rehabbing. Thanks for sharing your post. I enjoyed your playing, especially “screwing right up at the end”. I relate.

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Lots of energy and good rendition. Nice job and the fact that you were having fun really comes through. I have been working on Harvest Moon in Drop D.

[albert_d]

You seem frustrated. Just pull up a simple chorded song like 16 Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford and transpose to Em and Am with an occasional C (just pick the E,D,A, D strings and not strum) and sing out your frustration. Nobody gets it all in 10 minutes but in a year with weekend’s off that is 2,600 minutes taking off the weekends just to play and not practice.

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Great insight @my2cyl @Loraine and @jumpinjeff . I have noticed a few posts lately where some complain that the TAC lessons cycle back around and it I true that they do. I think that is a glass half empty approach because learning to me is more like a meal than an acquisition. It is something that fills you but it goes away and you must eat again to be sustained. I do apply these TAC lessons to many other “outside” songs. And I get better or it is easier each cycle. I am starting to review my Christmas playlist. It is not that I haven’t learned the songs before but it has been a while. And I can more easily add a new song or two to the list or enrich the song with a chord transition, bass walk, hammer on or pull off, or slide or instrumental break in a with a pentatonic scale because of my regular TAC re-exposure. So be encouraged.

[albert_d]

Besides being a good performance, it is a great feat of audio and video engineering. I’ve done a little of that and it is a lot of work. Good job

[albert_d]

I like to use a metronome and then just work it until my muscle memory disconnects my thumb. Also counting 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & out loud.

[albert_d]

Thanks for sharing. You did a nice job of conveying the feel of the lyrics. Keep enjoying the musical journey. We are getting older too.

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Now that is a big win. Congratulations and carry on with your new found joy.

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Did you look under the Skills courses? I haven’t been in that section for a while.

, but that is where the course would be located.

[albert_d]

I’ve a few years on you and would recommend visualizing the chord and then putting your fingers on the strings with your fretting hand with no pressure or strum a few times to start training the muscle memory.

[albert_d]

Trust the process. Next time around your hand will more easily make the stretch. I had to work getting over the need for perfection but you are on a journey and the destination eventually arrives (only to be replaced by a new waypoint. Don’t let perfect be the enemy and rob you of the joy of any small win. You will get it.

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Perhaps place your thumb behind the barre on the back of the neck? More practice as you build up strength and don’t be afraid of them. Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

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Nice to hear from you. I remember singing this when a high school sweetheart broke my heart back in 1968. Good job.