albert_d
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Noted. Good song.
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Will miss you.
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What @jumpinjeff says makes sense. I tell my hard of hearing friends that hearing loss is not something one can self-assess. (I don’t need hearing aids. I hear just fine. BUT ask your grandkids if you need hearing aids.) I likewise dabbled around guitar for decades with occasional lessons or a workshop here and there. But the consistency of TAC is where I became a guitar player. And FBW is where I got to stop using my memory for random facts, licks, chord progressions and keys and started to actually visualize what is going on with the music. (Now if I could just remember the lyrics!). I recommend staying with the challenges as presented by the teacher even if it isn’t my favorite curriculum. It’s only 10 minutes less time spent on Netflix.
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If it hurts that bad, you might explore thumb replacements (like a hip replacement rather than tendon surgery). It is a relatively new procedure and my wife had it done a few weeks ago and she is rehabbing quickly and singing its praises.
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Congratulations. Someday you will be Back to the Future!
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I would advise one to just go on and jump in to the current challenge. The TAC process does work. The challenges eventually will repeat and when they do come around again you will be pleased at the progress you have made since your last effort. But it is a mindset change to go from “getting it down right” to “do your best for now and move on.” Keeping the fun is more important than mastering the material. I tell myself that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first. After almost 2,600 playing sessions i can attest that the joy just gets better.
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Hey. I get it. Fun job. That harmony pedal is fun. My grandkids think that those non existent voices are spooky, like a chorus of ghosts jumping in, but I think it is just more fun. A little fun music is good for the soul. Wishing your hard times are becoming surmountable.
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Nice listen. How did you add the closed captioned lyrics?
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Just for fun I’d like to jump I’m here. First @jumpinjeff and @Bill_Brown are two of my favorite theory forum contributors so I always think through what they say. Second. I’ve been focusing on improving my CAGED system conceptual understanding and your question has awakened me to another concept. In standard tuning, the open strings are tuned a fifth apart except for the G to B strings which are a fourth apart. So in an E shaped chord in standard tuning the notes (root in on the low E) will always be R,5,R,3,5,R. So you are correct that the G string will always be the third and by lifting up the middle finger you will have a flatted 3rd.
Also I am a big fan of memorizing key board. It’s not as bad a process as they say even for my old brain.
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I appreciate Victoria. As I’ve said before, I intentionally broke my streak ay 366 because I felt the pressure of continuing the streak was starting to steal from the joy of the journey. Since then I have occasionally screwed up and missed a day. It generally happens around a grandchild’s event but it is my fault. [And Victoria, if you do read this, I’d appreciate it if somehow my longest streak coto 366.]
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TAC was just a baby 11 years ago. I share with you a bit over half that tenure and I understand and share your feelings of continued amazement of what used to be impossible is now routine. Thank you for your contributions to my journey by sharing your “rabbit hole” explorations. Once you have pointed the hole out to me I have enjoyed following it down a few paces. Good health and blessings before you take that last step to heaven.
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Great idea and big step for your TAC journey. It will not only help you with your muscle memory, but also with your emotional health and spiritual growth. Congratulations.
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I sometimes think I’m like Scooby Doo and get easily distracted by whatever shiny thing is in front of me. It is a good analogy. I am in process of making a play list of songs by category. I have been trying to come up with a system to refresh old songs and have add new ones for over a year now and not been very successful. This is my latest attempt. Examples of my categories are 1) Love songs 2) Fingerpicking instrumentals 3) Flatpicking instrumentals 4) Traveling songs 5) Old Protest Folk Songs 6) Folks Songs 5) Crying Songs 7) R&B Songs. This plan is very much a work in progress. My intent is to review a category each week. To add new songs, I have to not have more than three working at a time or I end up too diffused to make any progress. Once the song is performance ready or posted, I can put it on the refresher category list. I would solicit any other suggestions to consider for improvement. It is not yet a true Atomic Habit with me.
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Do you mean that it doesn’t show a dot on the high E string? The shape itself seems correct to me.
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Thanks. I wanted to know that too but had not thought to ask the question. And now you have provided a good answer.