jumpinjeff
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New player in the cricket pavillion? Omage to a great? …Tricky lining up that rhythm pattern. Standing Ovation to the mixer. I reached for my fan and had a moment. I dug.
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as long as the tilte is not used you should be okay as both the key of the song and the rhythmic pattern were altered.
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I jumped, hit free fall speed steadied and spread my wings. Away we go.
You have always had that flare!
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I tried to get out of dishes for that very reason. My wife smiled and handed me some gloves. : ) I am careful not to play until my calluses have thoroughly dried. I have peeled them, playing when they had softened from waterlog. They seem to be fine though as long as I give them time to dry.
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Congratulations Omar! The acoustic life fits you well! Great success exemplified.
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Hi @Strangeoldgal , I have found no better exercises to strengthen my fingers than our very own Daily Challenges. If these seem too much, take the first section only and drill that for 10 focused minutes. Finger strength is like money: you think you can’t have too much until you do and then you realize you never needed that much to begin with.
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Space and time… So deep… And it is here we agree to meet. I could yammer on for hours about this. : ) It is the basis for my tone-versation philosophy. Congrats on the milestone. The feeling begins to overtake the importance of the number.
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One of the hardest things to do is to attempt something challenging for the first time and returning after not noticing progress. One of the ways to get around this is breaking challenges into components. Did you have any success making the staccato notes with the index bar across all strings? If not, that is the place to play around, goof off, find success. When that is nailed down, move on to adding the E shape with the rest of the fingers. Philb nails it with, “chip away, over time, at the tough stuff”. I will add one thing to that…chip away methodically. Hit what you are unable to do so far for a minute or two and go back to what you like to do…,repeat. Do it again tomorrow, or in an hour: whatever works for your effort allotment.
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Oh man! One of my favs. I thought it was happening next week?
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That is good news @Loraine. Big healing G chord vibes to you! Are you able to do some Finger picking drills with open strings? No nagging intended only encouragement. : )
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Fine, I will throw in some sweets if you insist.
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Nice Mark @the-old-coach : I had never thought to tackle the alternative finger placement first without the bar. Even this old dog is still learning. Thanks!
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once you get that feel for swing it is hard to not incorporate it into…everything!
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Hi SeaGypsy. no nerve necessary. What we share here is not finished product but rather how/what we learn, all missed notes, unintended muffle of strings, total brain hiccups, all part of the process. This is the working area. We are the only ones (we, meaning the others also working) who see it. It is the very best of places to explore progress on video. I get past reluctance because the reward is soooo great. it is not the reward of outcome, it is the reward of effort. The effort reward goes a long way.
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Hi Barbara @BarbaraM , I saw this about your middle finger not being able to curl tightly enough and wanted to offer what I learned the hard way. There is more to bending a finger than just bending the finger. I had to get control of a little muscle in my forearm (I kinda start the flex in my elbow, right at the point) to lever my hand ever so slighty backwards to pop my hand bones out thus giving my finger the space to squeeze down. I have arthritis so any extra space I can provide to those tendons to move is relieving. It has taken 5ish years or so to get my muscles and brain all connected. I put the time element out there only to demonstrate it was not a week and done proposition. Even now after 9 years, stretching with the purpose of awakening kinesthetic awareness is about 1/4 of my sessions. Working the flexibility in these tiny tendons and muscles is a delicate practice. The stretching method is different than any I previously used (before becoming a guitar geek). I call it the silly putty method. Stretching barley feeling the tension and waiting until you no longer barely feel the tension, then increase…barely…repeat. When I do it slowly enough I feel a tingling relaxing of the tendons. Stretch slowly and the tissue is elastic…too fast and it starts to resist instead of relax, tightening up if you will…just release tension to where you don’t feel any and reapply less (barely feel and wait) and more slowly. It is a two steps forward one step back process. Give it a try.
Stick with it. It has beneficial carry over into other pursuits requiring digital dexterity.