albert_d
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I sometimes use my pinky and lay it across the strings to mute them. Other times I can mute by just relaxing the pressure on my fretting hand. One can also palm mute with your strumming hand. All just take a little practice and will eventually come naturally once you build the muscle memory.
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Can you tighten your tuner? Perhaps it is slipping?
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Yes. That is a great big key to a very useful door. Good win.
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What @Moose408 is good advice. Don’t beat up on yourself and supplemented TAC (practice) with easy songs (an actual game).
I looked at your profile and noted that your goal is to play and you recall the joy you shared with music and your Mom. I too am recently retired and lost my Mom in 2022 so I relate with your goal. But it isn’t specific enough. You might spend some time thinking about what it is that you actually want to do. I want to play like a piano lounge singer plays not a concert pianist. I want to share songs even if I am an audience of one. They don’t have to be good and I don’t have to be good. But I need to have songs not just techniques and licks, scales and chords. And I do have all those now over time but all along the way I am enjoying a song or two.
So I would suggest using some of that “retirement” time to ponder and get very specific as to what you want to do regarding guitar. A friend of mine says anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first. But doing TAC isn’t the goal and playing guitar isn’t the goal. The goal is more intrensic and unique to you.
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I love that you “had to”. Enjoy your new friend.
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My wife and her sisters loved Ricky. He was a DREAM. And no one names there kids Mary anymore. Thanks for the memories.
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Great win. I love the pattern’s because I don’t have to memorize all sorts of unique things. As I age, I appreciate muscle and stored memory rather than trying to use up that diminishing RAM. Lyrics are getting harder than the music. That is a good thing and makes me understand there is progress occurring.
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TAC isn’t a stacked learning program after the First 30 Days starters. So I’d just flush it and start where it is. What you missed will eventually come around again. There are those however who have built spreadsheet links with much content. Perhaps one of them will respond. And you can now go back like 6 weeks and pick up lessons with a new link in the site.
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I can say ,”Yes” to all of the above. I am empathetic toward being uncomfortable and hesitate to analyze or offer advice but … (there is the but), I’ll try anyway. First, keep the fun in it. My TAC goal overall is to have fun playing guitar like a piano lounge singer plays piano. It’s not a concert hall and I know I’ll never be professionally good. But then I am not a professional and haven’t missed a meal for lack of “bread in my jar.” So back off yourself and don’t be your worst critic. Second find a practical use for your music like playing a song. My first song was 16 Tons in Em. I picked only a few strings arpeggio style but I had ONE song in my back pocket. Find a one chord or two chord song and do it for fun. Sing loud. Be dynamic (play louder and softer). Add that third chord and you now can play unlimited number of songs. (Country Music is 3 chords and the Truth). Go to Ultimate Guitar, Guitar Tabs, or YouTube and grab songs you like. Play the easy layer. As you do TAC add techniques but don’t feel like you have to master every technique. I have one exercise, Mississippi Timing, I’ve worked on for years and still don’t have it. But I do have other exercises and techniques I can do I didn’t even know they existed when I started. So this is getting long and I’ll stop. But keep it fun.
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You should be close to a whole song but unless that song is public domain (which is not true of most contemporary songs) TAC, an educational site, won’t violate copyright laws. I was not aware until recently of all the compliance issues with. Cover Songs. You can check out YouTube conversations on the matter.. Apparently the Eagle copyright owners (and others) are extra real sticklers. One of our TAC members had his YouTube account terminated (there is a thread in the forum about it) and lost his postings over a Cover Song he posted improperly per YouTube policies .But this way you get to make the song yours and have more fun.
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Yessiree. On to the Daily Challenge but don’t look for perfection. Just do your 10 minutes and let it accumulate. If you have an interest in something particular, there are also skills courses.
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And it goes so well with the F#m barre chord! Good win.
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Good job. Those little things add up to much joy. The techniques may not seem interesting as you do them but suddenly you realize you know which string to pick and your muscle memory knows where it is.
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I putter around in a Cherokee Six with my guitar in the middle seats whenever I can!
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Do you still fly?