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works all over. Just remember the nut represents what is “the bar”, as you go up the neck the open strings get covered. When you leave the nut you have to cover the string to make the patterns work.

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N-light! Congratulations!!! Thanks for sharing. I always am a better musician after reading your posts.

Now do you get what I was saying about how there is only one scale. Where we jump in and out delineates the character.

Love the whole Victor Wooten list. He is one of my musical journey inspirations.

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Hi @dblusk808gmail-com , one last thought: rarely is a sympathetic tone offensive. One strings energy causes the other to vibrate as it is ready to go at the sound wave frequency encountered. In a word, it wants to join in. The occasional offensive tone is caused when two tones are close but not aligned and it causes a wah wah sound that is hard to endure once you hear it. This is not usually found on guitars but it was worth a mention. The wah wah vibe principle opens the door to a whole world of possibility.

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sometimes the effect is desired and sometimes not. You get to decide how you want it to sound.

There are several ways to mute strings depending on where you find your fingers and which strings to mute. All of the ways are addressed here in our daily challenges. One of those techniques is palm muting, another is to dampen a string with your fretting fingers by letting your finger leak off of the string it is fretting to touch the string you want to dampen. It can also be done by briefly touching the string with the flat pick. This can be used to great effect. It creates a chirping sound.

Enjoy the sound and play with it. see if you like it or if it starts to bug you. It is only bad if you don’t want it there and can’t figure out how to get rid of it. ; )

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when I find myself in times of trouble Music sets me free!!! Thanks for the reminder Fletchie. Did I mention Steve Was Rght? Always.

I <3 SWR

my emojis won’t load onto the page. had to go old school.

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Congratulations @Loraine !! Thank you for putting your journey out there for us to learn. Your struggles revealed your determination. You are determined! I relate to determination. I am also struck by how even after 4 years you find yourself on the face paced learning curve. I too find myself in an ever accelerating pace of knowledge and skill acquisition. It is almost as if the more my fingers can physically do the more my mind can find uses for them. Thanks again Loraine for sharing your observations on your way to becoming the player of your desire. I see it.

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Hi @stevieblues , use the drop down box next to your icon at the top of the page,…where your name is also located. You will see “Members” is one of the choices near the bottom.

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Another fun one is extracting Kottke out of Frankie Vallie’s Soul/Heaven Above Me. It is a disco tune and I think blue grass and disco are 2nd cousins.

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I kid you not….it is so in there. And fun excavating note by note, matching up the nuggets. And not chicken nuggets. Off topic: I always thought chicken nuggets were hard boiled eggs. I am trying to tie that into music….nope, nothing.

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OH! I do love a good cue. Damn bro, move to Oregon would you. Naw, refuge in another local is way cool. Come anytime. If I could get to Maison du Plaisir Musical….sometimes just imagining makes me play better.

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I just tripped into another rabbit hole: connecting Imagine and Jump. Light bulb. I just conjured the connection. Like Tiny Tim and the Monkees.

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my symbiote.

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I may have dropped a marble or two trying to figure out this weird little wood box with silver strings. No worries I will find them. ; ) Anyways Fletch, smoking tends to speed up what I seek to prolong. I wanna meet St Peter as much as the next guy…just not tomorrow.

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I say this with respect and with the intent of sparing others my own experience at failing. Try not to fixate on a few grains of sand. You have a whole beach, the great thing about TAC is you don’t even have to walk the beach, the waves bring the sand to you. I know that right now it feels like the lessons are different but (don’t tell anybody) they are all the same, kinda like sand. This is a big reflective circle. It is not linear. You are never ahead nor behind. Jump in and play.

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you kids and you fancy bikes with windscreens. I used to ride with one eye closed so when a bug hit me in the eye I would just open the closed one. : ) It is kinda how I play guitar too. I have many more day now where I am the screen. It is only when I am distracted by expectation that I become the bug. Focus, what a funny word. It is the everything.