albert_d
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What a wonderful experience! I am happy for you. I just came back from my annual trip to the Kerrville Folk Festival. The fun of such an event is more in the camp grounds playing with others than the music presented on stage. I lived in the Bay Meadows area of Jacksonville for three years and my son graduated from Wolfson High School. I got to play around the campfire with some dads from Troop 333. One is brought back to a true joy of music when you can play and share it with others. Not only does playing with others shines a light on those uncomfortable areas where we most desire improvement, it also affirms our progress. I’ve never felt shamed in a song circle. Everyone in the circle is just appreciating the opportunity to have others with which to share.
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I am not familiar with Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Your chord changing has certainly speed up over time.
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You’re the first person I know who has covered an AI song. Ha. The times they are a changing.
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Nice little “Landside/Dust in the Wind” progression. Love the lyrics and sentiment. Thanks.
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Nice strong performance. Welcome to TAC.
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Congratulations. It has been fun to watch the seed germinate and grow into a recurring blooming music flower. It is aBIG WIN.
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You ready for lyrics. Good job.
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31 sessions is a drop in the bucket on a lifelong guitar journey. It hasn’t been enough time to experience the joy of how much better you are when a challenge comes back around and you realize the process and structure actually works. As @petelanger says, when you are struggling is when you are learning. But if you aren’t new to guitar, then throw some fun stuff in there and don’t make it all “work all the time”. There is a difference in learning, practicing and playing. So enjoy them all. Even at the gym no one wants to see if they can lift their personal maximum best each and every trip. Soon one regrets going to work out. So do your 10 minutes and then have fun.
I don’t get paid by TAC to promote anything. But I can vouch that it works as I near 2,500 [usually enjoyable] sessions. (But I still struggle with “Mississippi Timing”.) Hopefully this will be another consideration toward your decision.
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Nice job and nice clean recording.
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You must have had a rush to post several songs so quickly! I have a Men’s Bible Study that has several 80-90 year old widowers. This song reminded me of them. Good job fiddling with this one.
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Allison Krauss cover of Keith Whitney’s “You Say Nothing at All” comes to my mind.
Also Janis Joplin’s cover of “Summertime” from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.
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I use the quarterly goals to add new songs. On a new song I will first get the rhythm down and then add the chord progression and then add lyrics and then add special techniques such as word, transitions or bases fills or runs. I try to add different styles of songs so that I would have a flat picking fiddle tune, and a folk song, and perhaps a love song going at the same time so that it does not become monotonous. I also each quarter throw in a song that is very difficult for me so that I will be uncomfortable. I do not expect to master that song over any short time period. I find the songs on guitar Tabs & Chords or Laura Bateman or the stellar guitarist. I do not believe they compete with TAC because they are generally simple versions of songs I want to cover. I hope that helps.
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And she is back! Happy your recovery is far enough along to play again. Thanks you.
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For the fun if it, I went back to see what was one of my first posts. Back then Tony would do a challenge that involved learning a song. One had to post your song and then TAC would mash them all together and present it. tAC doesn’t do that anymore but that was the back story. Recording and benchmarking does present you with a fun way to remind you of your progress.
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Yes. And with a metronome. Last year I started working with my grandson to record some tracts and found that over time I had become very cavalier about timing since I usually play and practice alone. If you play with others it is better for all if you play in time. So I resolved to pay more attention to rhythm. And I found that with a new song, it was a good place to start and then layer the others on top.