jumpinjeff
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I feel you Loraine. chronic pain changes you. Changes how your brain is wired. I know.
I am sending cleansing C chord vibes your way followed by healing D vibes…D maj (not minor. It is a long road. Sometimes we shlog alone, sometimes together. More fun in a group!
GET WELL!!
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Why not continue to build your mind/finger, hand, muscle connections with the challenges ten minutes, and then move on to fretwiz for the brain? I found it easy to underestimate the importance of muscle conditioning to play what I wanted to play, which is everything. Fretwiz is informationally dense but can be run through repeatedly for new revelations. Get what is germane to you at the moments you are learning it and move on.
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Dont worry: Short fingers are where everyone starts……somewhere in the process, fingers grow long and fleixible. : ) You are on your way!!
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are you sure? I still have it. Did your sceen ratio magnify leaving the icon out of view?
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Hi @SplashAndrew : welcome. Here is my experiece. The pick itself is only 1% of proper picking and initially it may be 0%. The easiest pick I use is a Jim Dunlop nylon .60mm. It producess the least amount of volume of all my picks. I used it when working new strum patterns with increasing speeds. It was a go to training pick for strumming. For flat picking I figured out how to balance the pick with a Dunlop Ultex 2.0. It remains a go to for volume and control when flat picking. I struggled mightily at first with slipping and spinning until I learned how it balances on the fingers. When stumming I found as I got more comfortable with the new strum patterns, I wanted more control and more volume. That is when I move to the thicker pick some of them are 2.0mm. Control cames after accuracy and precision were developed: time in the saddle. That was what I learned. I am super pumped by the results.
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Don’t make it hard on yourself. If you see an advantage and a path to success that is shorter….you gotta take it. I say play on that nylon string electric. It will have no bad side effects. What you know you know. You take it with you. You may be the worlds best nylonstring electric player. I say you better find out! : ) +1 is the right amount of guitars for a guitarsenal.
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I love the pick, picks of different size, shape, material, and thickness. My best advice is balance. Think of the pick as being balanced on your finger. It will have equal feel on the down stroke then a counter balance, and a positional correction on the up stroke. If that was not to your liking then another correction on the following downstroke but always getting back with as little effort as can possibly be exerted to that place of balance. Try to let the pick do the work, your fingers get it to the right place and then the weight of the pick is what provides the enegy for the strike. When I do this correctly my whole arm and wrist and hand works in unison as if there were no joints, more like a big noodle and it all flows. Think of the freedom you had as a kid when you learned how to balance on a two wheeler: balancing the pick was the same.
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I get your post Title. Clever! Nice set up. I wish I wrote stuff down. I probably would have progressed faster. I just was so busy playing I did not have time to write stuff down. : )
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I think there is another distinction….the hammer-on raises pitch and the pull-off lowers pitch. One captures the string and one releases the string. I hope that makes sense! : )
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It is a couse in the “Skills” section. In my menu, the icon shows as music notes.
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@albert_d : spot on! Part of my process was learning to identify muscle fatigue vs. Ligament and tendon pain from inflammation. Like you stated, the answer is getting flexible through stretching combined with managing tension. I stretch everyday, every session, sometimes several times a session if I am not getting a result from multiple attempt with genuine effort. I also had to learn to strech body parts that are more bone and Ligament/tendon than muscle: the hands and fingers. I call it silly putty stretching. Do it slowly barely introducing tension as the tissue relaxes. I was always surprised at how much more range of motion I could get using this technique. Do it fast and it snaps and you are back to a previous level. Okay….it doesn’t really snap but it doesnt do anything either. It is very different than the stretching I learned for athletic purpose on my larger muscle groups. Ice is amazing therapy for sore fingers and hands. It is darn near free and it has no side effects. If you are getting sore tendons, ice and rethink your motion. This is where tension free playing comes in…..find the least amount of pressure necessary to make the sound you desire. You will save wear and tear on your joints. There is an accuracy/precision component to this and that is where consistency in the Daily Challenges provided what I needed. I learned to play through the discomfort of muscle f fatigue. If I start to feel pain (Joints), I have to address it either by technique change or position change or If it is a reaching challenge….flexiblity training…SILLY PUTTY style! Eventually over time you will be able to stretch your wrist elbow and shoulder just by stretching your thumb. Kinesthetic awareness is built on time and repetion. Keep us posted on your progress, @pfilippettibhaircraft-com .
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Spot on @petelanger . Could be the greatest benefit of the Daily Challeges is they gave me the habit of guitar. Today, it would almost make me ill (withdrawl? : ) , of a kind) if I did not put my hands on a guitar.
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I am grateful to be able to extend the courtesy that many extended me all along the way. I learn as much chatting with you as I do searching the internet for “guitar tricks” a practice I completely abandoned due to lack of results. This is better.
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Just remember the scale starts with one note. Take the Root and the 2 and the third spend an hour changing your leadtone on the chord change and mess with rhythimic patterns. There are building blocks in improv: they start with the root, then the thirds (pentatonics) then comes the octave scales, after that there is infinitely more but if you get those blocks then the infinite come automatically with…. you guessed it, time in the saddle. If I could do it over I would spend more time in thirds. I was slightly obsessed with the octave scales and in hind sight to my detriment. I will put in a good word for playing the whole improve track useing one note. This is the best way I found to work rhythm (super key in improve). I start banging out 1/4s in time, then 1/8ths then 1/4 triplets, then back, then mixed, then 16ths. I allowed my focus to be laser sharp on time, without worrying about note selection. This was a watershed moment when I was able to do this. Did not happen overnight, you can ask any of the people I play with. : ) I’m pretty sure I struggled harder than the average bear to get it. It was my mistake early on not to explore the importance of root tones and their octaves. This is one of my favorite guitar subjects to yammer on about.
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we have different views of the page. I do not see a menu bar….that is where that “help” icon lives for what I see. Thats a drag.