albert_d
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The grandkids have got to love that pedal! What rabbit holes we go down! Such fun.
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First, I’d recommend leaving your guitar out of a case and on a stand if you are not already doing so. And then pick it up. You have a good re-start just by saying you are ready to restart. I’d do the daily challenge 10 minutes and then work for another 5 minutes on a quarterly goal (perhaps a song or a skill). Don’t worry about the length of the session as much as the habit building regularity. Length will come with enjoyment.
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Thanks to you all. It is nice to have fellow travelers on this guitar journey. We have all come to appreciate the joy of a regularly enriching habit. I also include in this a better understanding of what is actually happening. I appreciate those moments where the theory comes poking its head up and says, “See. That how I work! Why did it take you so long to figure me out?”
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I have the same desire. I’ve a friend who plays at an independent living facility and another at a memory care facility and they enjoy the audience and interaction but are not playing instruments with others but more of a sing a long and then solo.
My wife is in a painting group and she has set a “play date” with her friends husband whom I’ve never met. But we will play together soon. Also I am trying to play with people from the church.
We shall see how all that goes but playing with others live and in person is a deliberate effort.
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I have dabbled since High School, but a few years before retirement (and COVID), I decided to return to this early love and get serious. I figured that if one can get a bachelor’s degree in four years of focused effort, then one could learn to play with joy and ease with such effort. Well, as an older person now retired, it takes a little longer, but it can be accomplished. I am still on that path, aches in the joints and loss of vocal range and all. The serendipity of the journey has been that age has helped remove comparative thinking and replaced it with enjoyment no matter how “good” or “bad” one is. So, to all you who are picking up the guitar again (or for the first time in advancing years) you are doing yourself a favor.
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Thanks to you all for listening and celebrating this true win in my guitar journey. Sharing music is a natural outflow of DNA.
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Sorry, I know of none.
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The capo on the second fret moves the key up one step so one can play along with the recorded version. That makes a “D” shape an E. Capos are wonderful for singing too so that one can effect transpose to a vocalist’s range while still retaining the chord shapes used to play the guitar. I hope that helps.
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If you can find another TAC member who did favorite it, you can go to their profile and see their favorites. There is also this type of spreadsheet some have built.
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When one first starts TAC (and it never completely sirs away) we struggle with 10 minutes and move on, but I have come to learn that this feeling is just another form of comparative thinking. I am comparing myself as I am to myself as I think I should be. Now motivation is good but not if it results in robbing our fun of okaying due to the burden of having to “keep up”.
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I always like a waltz. Nice job.
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I saw your post but waited a few days to listen to it because I wanted to have time to do so with full attention. Interesting. I kept hearing a C , F, and Bb in the bass. It is captivating.
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Yes. But of course at some point their voice range might be an octave lower.
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It’s nice that you shared music with your Dad. Family is so precious. Thank you.
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I have been very happy with the GS mini. It is a good size, sound, and portability.
