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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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10 minutes a day is your commitment. If an alien lands in your back yard you will do your 10 minutes. What happens next. Play if you can, play if you want, play for a minute more, play for an hour more, what ever you do you rest assured knowing your playing needs are met and you are in the land of discounts and free gifts (musically speaking).
What we have in TAC is a method to organize, balance, adjust and analyse the results our playing times. It allows for matching our desires and also our development both mental and physical to where we are, while simultaneously taking care of where we need to go. That is the clear direction supplied and cultivated. All that is required is effort.
At a point very early on in my journey, I could not just play for 10 minutes. Over time my sessions extended to hours and even then I had to learn how and when to stop for maximum improvement (also learned here). I was the one who had to do the rearranging. I had to figure out how to make room for this new thing. It was a process. You will find your process. Play as much as you can as often as you can. Find the successful mindsets that advance your comprehension and execution, jettison the ones that set you back. The advantageous mindsets are on display in most of the challenge lessons.
Or the easy answer: you should play an hour …LOL….that is funny right?….I think so.
Thanks @langerking , your question made me a better player today!!!
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Congratulations @John_Bolling_Hall . I 100% agree!
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Your eyes only sees a fraction of the actual oscillation a string performs in order to make sound. The link is to a YouTube vid that has slowed it down. They move, yah mahn, they move.
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Sorry to hear about the broken strings. I want to verify that when you tune to D you are tuning your E strings to a tone lower in pitch not higher. Depending on your tuner gear ratios it is about one full turn Lower in Pitch. The E string will go higher to about G, that is three half steps before it breaks. I bend there but briefly and not without sometimes breaking a string but it is usually either a new string or an very old string. If you know you are tuning to the lower pitch and the string is still breaking we can have a different conversation on how to put your string on the tuning peg without fatiguing the string where it contacts the sharp side of the post hole if that is where it is breaking.
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my case I fly with is only 43.5” . Even my biggest case (Calton custom for an MD) is only 48″. Check your measurements. My 43.5 inch case fits in the overhead on 737s but my larger cases to not. When I flew the law was first come first served. If I had my guitar and did not want it checked I would pay for priority boarding giving me first chance at the overheads. If you are asked to move it say no. If it fits and you were there first it is your space to occupy. That was the law. Instruments had a carve-out which treats them differently than baggage.
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I want to highlight one of the things Moose408 is talking about: speed. I like his suggestion of 3 times and if you make a mistake slow down. The part I do differently is when I speed up. I will only speed up when I have tension both mental and physical whipped. This is my path to the fastest progress. When I am attempting something new I slow down to seemingly ridiculous speeds to mitigate and jettison tension. 30 bpm if necessary. One beat ever two seconds. That is a lot of time. It may not sound musical but it gives my body and mind a chance to sync up. Once I have achieved tension free playing I can crank up the speed being mindful to never chase the speed using tension as my guide to when I have increased bpm too quickly. I spent many years chasing speed. My time was not used to my best advantage.
It takes time to develop skill to execute rhythm so that it makes sense in your head and is consistent. Your time is different than my time. Let go of any time frame (as in, I will get this by next month, year, decade etc.) if you find yourself dealing with frustration. Work on removing tension. Use bpm as your tool. You will get it. Frustration is the nemesis of fast progress. Yes, I had my share of that too until I started working on tension.
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Nice going @76BruceW , you won’t need to hope….all those things you mentioned will come to pass….all ya gotta do is keep playing that guitar everyday no matter what.
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This is the whole kit and boodle. Well thought! I found many of the same strategy’s and frames essential to my progress.
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Who loves you baby!
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But @Fletch I like to play with naked ears….yah,….I am that guy.
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no worries not bugged. I love talking guitar!! Pitch. the pitch is higher than the open D by an octave when working on the high e string tuned down and it is one octave lower on the low E string when tuning down to D. Both Higher and lower by an octave than the open D string respectively. We may have found the challenge. The D sound you tune to is not the same as your open D string. The Ds are separated by octaves. The note is still a D note. Your tuner likely recognizes the D note in any octave. If you are using a fixed pitch matching device like pipes or a tuning fork you would have to adjust for the octave by ear. Sounds tricky and it was for me until I learned the trick. It is all vibrations and the vibrations interact with each other in certain, specific, identifiable ways.
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Tuning down means lowering the pitch rather than raising the pitch. When the pitch is raised on a string the tuner winds the string up on the peg, increasing tension. When the pitch is lowered the opposite happens making the string slightly more slack.
If one were to attempt to tune an E string up to D pitch the string would most certainly break. The tension is too great for the string and it snaps. By tuning down, the string is loosened creating slack and less tension, less reason to break. Lemme know if that makes sense.
No need for a new tuner.
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I look forward to hearing how you like it! I am sickened in my heart to know you have lost access to your videos through the years. For that alone YouTube has earn my sincere ire.