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gotta do what you can to getter done. Electric vs Acoustic is like organ vs piano: many things transfer and many things are unique to the instrument.

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I asked myself this very question many times as I have followed Tony P to guitar fluency: “how important is it to spend time on techniques I will never again use? I don’t want to end up hating to practice just because we’re doing an “ugly” (to me) song” I arrived at a comfortable conclusion. I will attempt the technique. I may not have a need for it now. The reason I do it as presented is so I don’t have to think about what happens next. I found that as I get better (over time) at a technique I find a place to use it. That is an incredible lightbulb moment when that happens. It provides me the “stick to it” motivation when I don’t have context for new technique. It is easier for me as time goes on to separate the song from the building blocks of the song, so much so all the songs become one song with variations that distinguish one from another.

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Hi @pjmatthews3702gmail-com , For the time being while you stretch and work on your hand position and finger flexibility consider this: the three finger G chord we are taught is actually three G chords in one. Think of the three bass strings as one G chord ( Cover E and A strings appropriately for G chord) and then, the treble string G chord, covering the high E string only and playing the three bottom strings. There is another G chord and it is hidden because you don’t have to fret any strings but strike only the middle 3 strings open D,G,B strings. It is a full G chord. Three ways to make G chords all in the same place, add in the 3 finger G shape and there are 4. I hope one of these is a win for you. Keep working toward that which remains challenging but take a win with a easier G. (hint: down the road this concept will have tremendous effect, not just with G chords but with all the G shapes wherever you want to move them.) Give it a shot see if it works for you. Any questions? report back…we all can improve together.

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Hi Jeff, @JeffK , you may be better served elsewhere. Definitely worth exploring. I have friends in other programs who share material, some of it very cool. Before you go and since you asked, I am not experiencing what you are. It is the opposite. I have been around for 9years and change: what I found is that I had changed so much in my playing capability between lesson repeat intervals, that they were nearly different lessons. I love having the daily challenges always here. I log in and start everyday with the challenge work in the gym before I head out onto the field of playing. I never worry that I am missing something, that I need to find a better way, that I am getting behind, that I need to plan out how I am going to get better….it is right there. Changes of scene are usually useful. In the end everything else I do is grounded by the TAC routine. I also learned this along the way, although I hesitate,…..,……,music is repetitive. Blew my mind when I embraced this. No matter where you go it is all the same, in principle, eventually. So go where you get better and have a good time. Is the lesson direction clear or cloudy? Look for clarity that you understand! For me that has been TAC.

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@tonicholaol-com : I realized how this question was initiated. I clicked on the Splash page where it Identified Hotel California as this weeks benchmark song. It does not take you to the lesson which is next wednesday. It does take you to the place where you would post your recorded result of that days effort. I do see the source of the confusion.

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When I started I had a tendency to have my thumb too high above the horizontal centerline of the fretboard. This made is touch to reach those low bass strings. Half if not more of my thumb would be above the back of the fretboard. I learned to move my thumb position lower more toward that horizontal centerline. It gave me more arch (put me up on my finger tips a bit more) and let me clear the strings without muffling those I did not want to touch.

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Welcome, @jbroder3me-com . Wishing you fast progress without frustration!

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You are on the right track Barbara. I wish I had a nickel for everything I can do now that I thought I never would, I would be richer. : )

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Do you know why they were removed from the general curriculum?

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I have a book full of ideas and have yet to get a song written ready to record! You do regularly what I have YET to accomplish. Notice how I put in yet. I only know of one other artist with a catalog exceeding SWR. That catalog sold for 1/2 billion. Tell me in ’63 anyone saw that coming. so yep I am impressed.

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Sorry! someone stuffed a sock in my sound hole.

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How many has SWR recorded? Even without knowing the exact number I am impressed.

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You don’t have to use your left hand at all! It sounds great using the opens strings EADGBE. You do have to figure out an order that sounds good to you and your rhythm choices to support those notes. You can do it with your right hand only. I have had periods where one of my arms was unusable. It was no fun. The toughest was when I would leave the guitar in the stand and try to waterfall FP the open strings. Thoughts are with you @Loraine

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@Loraine : I was messing around with this progression….It sounds good on open strings. The whole solo can be played on open strings. Great opportunity to make rhythm the star!

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I am too junior to have a senior moment! (wait, whoa up, what is the cutoff age?) As for dry,…dry? Dude I live in a coastal rainforest. I think the only place wetter is Kerry Co IE. I may have relatives there.

Blink twice if you are being held hostage. I gotcha bro.

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