jumpinjeff
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Barbara!! I always enjoy reading your posts and here is why: I do, I do, I do resonate profoundly strong with the “skill wall”. I almost ended right around the time you are describing too!! I have great news, you are on the edge of a breakthrough but you can’t see it. I see it because I know what is on the otherside of that wall. The only thing it takes to get through the wall is repetition and determination over time. Once the concept is embraced and you settle in, that is when the breakthrough happens. I used to talk about what I thought were my insane experiments of repitition describing them as scenes from Clockwork Orange where they pried his eyes open and made him watch movie clips except my eyes felt pried open but all I was watching was paint drying. And then success! and that changed the whole game…….hang in there Barbara. Keep making play your practice, challenge but don’t work, DAILY and I mean daily PLAY, only compare to where YOU were and do take note of where that was say 3,6,12 months ago. I promise that in time, some of the tedious things will become the aces up your sleeve….it just takes time. Those who find ways to have fun whiling away the hours of challenge make the happiest and best sounding players. C’mon lets go have some fun!
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In order to alleviate my shoulder pain I learned to engage my pectoralis minor to stablize my rotator cuff and pull my shoulder forward and then once forward squeeze it toward my body. This position has stablized my arm and does not pull on my rotorcuff any more eliminating shoulder pain all together…….One surgery later. Had I only known.
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I am trying to figure out the actual question…..the first answer I come up with to, “how do you know?” is, you get to decide which, but that is not helpful. Are you specifically comparing the “shapes” of A and E? The minor always happens by flatting the major 3rd making it minor but that has many ways in which it can be accomplished and I am suspecting this is the subject question…why are E and A shapes themselves different when the third is flatted?
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Skyman’s Rx is on the money…this does 90% for me. The last 10% refinement comes by playing as softly as possible while playing at slower speed. This dials in my accuracy. It also forces me to relax my physical while also letting everything Beyond The Physical relax as well. In this state I can play to remove any excess movement that may cause inconsistant and inaccurate attacks. I heard this on a spy show…….slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Sure applies to guitar anyhow.
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Are you able to make a bar with your index?
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cool idea @RobinGee I gave this some thought. If it were me: I would do the fret wiz just with my guitar first time through. Since the couse is set up using the Guitar as example and explanation understanding the musical principles the understanding may come faster without undue frustration (oh wait, maybe that is just me : ) ). Then when you have grasped the principles it will easily transfer to Mando as you explore new note orders. your knowledge will give you double speed advantage for learning as you only need connect the kinesthetic part of the equation and not the thinking part.
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I didn’t see this earlier. Yes I have struggled mightily and conquered. I will tell you the trick if you promise not to tell anyone. Slow down. Slower than you think should be resonable….then play as softly as you can possibly play and you will likely find yourself ever increasing volume unintentionally…adjust back to softly as you can. Do this over and over, after 100 or so times you should begin to feel your pick differently. Don’t increase speed until a new feeling is felt. Give’r a go, see what you think.
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Way cool Skyman! Nothing is like playing with my kids.
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It is a wild place to find oneself to be sure. What is even wilder is that the journey which at first appeared to be linear is rather a series of ever expanding and contracting circles which weave through each other at all times and simultaneously. It reminds me much more of Jeffersons Airplane’s White Rabbit. It gets big and small and crisscrosses in the shrinking and expanding. At least that is my take today.
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I am not going to stop today since I already have played and tomorrow looks good! I am so profoundly hooked in my soul, I am pretty sure I should not have shaken hands with that funny lookin dude at the Clarksdale crossroads. You have made a difference in my journey Pete. Thank you.
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I sent you a P/M. can you still get that?
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Tony S you are one of my muses. Don’t know if I woulda made it this long if I hadn’t run into you! Part of the Orgin story in a multivalent weave. Best to your better half. : )
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yes you have it. When talking about the shape, The E shape will always become minor by lifting that finger….here is the caveat….when the bar is engaged. If you are making an A chord with the E shape the bar must cover the G string on the fifth fret. Or if you are not playing it as a bar you will need to slide your index to the fifth fret otherwise when you lift the index you will get a Open G note not the desired C# for the major or C for the minor (with the index placed respectively). It is this way because the intervals of the notes don’t change, the note themselves change but their space between them does not.
The thing that took me a while was figuring out how chords are not always built top to bottom and sometimes they run inside out aka inversions. I found three ways people get it, either memorize, have time in the saddle or have a gifted ear. I am a bad memorizer, I have no musical gift, I went the time in the saddle route. Determination plus the years of clear instruction always heading me off into the correct direction until it made sense. Comprehension did not come at once, rather it came in a series of moments of greater understanding starting slowly building to a cascade. If you can do either of the other two do that because darn, it took me longer than I thought: good thing I learned how to have a good time on the way!
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Thinking about TAC in its infancy puts a smile on my face. I rememer the first time I met Tony and had about a million thing to say like when you haven’t seen your best friend for a while and then I realised in the same moment…I don’t know this dude and he has no idea who I am. Awkward. It may be my single biggest Boomer/tech collision of record. Makes me laugh out loud thinking back on the moment. 2 seconds later Tony was over it and 5 seconds later I was too. 3 extra seconds for me because I have always been suspicious of long-haired guys with beards. Gotta love how music brings people together.
That last quarter step is tricky. The bannister is removed and there is no net. : ) -
I do share that sentiment. Where does the time go? And then I think about all that has happened in the last 11 years and I realize, Oh There it is!