jumpinjeff
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Hi @deborahp1010gmail-com ; two things come to mind, one is long a term practice: stretching. Look over in the skills courses and find the course on stretching. It will not increase you finger length but it will improve your spread and speed. Two: this is an immediate fix that will take some time before it becomes intuitive, Move your thumb to the center line of the neck, you will think your fingers have grown two inches and from the guitars perspective they did.
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My first advice is never ever let frustration get in the way your learning to play guitar. Now about frustration: is not being able to play something causing frustration? It took me a good deal of time to be able to identify my own source of frustration. Try to figure out why you are frustrated. It went way beyond not being able play something for me. If you want to talk through it we can chat on message if you prefer or forum, whichever makes you more comfortable.
For power chords two or three finger….both have their advantages. If you have nailed your two finger down and you are satisfied with how it sounds, carry on! At some point you may have to learn the three finger method because doing it with two won’t work but, that is not today so play until it doesn’t work, then find a new way unless curiosity gets the better of you and you learn it just to compare.
Fast progress to you.
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100% totally agree @Mrfredsporty . The challenge is real and so is the lighting strike break throughs when perserverance seems impossible but after persevering just a little longer, EUREKA! I have never not found a way through. I haven’t stopped in 9 years either! There is that.
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hi saddlenut, this is neither a buffet nor a boot camp. It can be either but I use TAC as a gym for my fingers. While I was lifting in the finger gym I learned a whole buncha stuff I did not even realize I was learning. While getting strong enough to play guitar…I learned how to play the guitar. Not just one song, all the songs. But hey that is my journey. Hope you can find a dry stone in that somewhere. Here is one really big dry stone. Just because you don’t see it, does not mean it is there. Sometimes you are looking at something unfamiliar and don’t recognize its relativity and value. Then you get a bunch of these mystery thing together and suddenly they have context and together they start making sense. I had to mull things over many times before I saw the patterns emerging. Whoa!, was that fun.
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Ya buddy. celebrating!
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Nicely done @SoCal_Ian .
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Things came together for me the minute I jettisoned my expectations. I was a slow learner. Tony tried to help as well as other members who where saints. It took me 2ish years to realize my impediment was me and my expectation. After that it has been one of the joys of my life. That is when the whole thing started coming together.
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While y’all figure it out… don’t forget to show up and get in your 10 minutes. I can’t stress how valuable that one practice has been for my progress.
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Takes the whine right outta my tone : ) Super inspiring. So much “can do” right there I aspire to emulate. I can be better. Sandy shows me through his effort. Thanks @KayMesser
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I was there B. As you were too! Fun odd memories!
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Great analysis @joseph-vitzen : The keys to your fastest progress lie right in the middle of your analysis!
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I wish he could wave a magic wand and make me the player I want to be. Does that help my progress or hurt my progress? For best results, leave lesson planning to the Teacher. Just because you don’t see how it fits does not mean that it doesn’t.* Find success even if it is incremental (all guitar success is incremental, we must open our minds to observe the subtle progress) and don’t stop showing up for the Daily Challenge. You are in charge of your mindset. It is up to you. I totally understand what you are saying about songs. For sure. So many free easy choices to find music. Carlos Santana has some extended 2 chord jams and Grateful Dead Fire On The Mountain is an epic 2 chord song. TAC is not a song specific learning program rather it uses songs and parts of songs as learning tools. There is so much music available through casual search. Have you looked for 2 chord songs? I just did a quick search and the first entry to show was “65 popular and easy 2 chord guitar songs with tabs.”
*a prime example of teaching brilliance is the relationship of the weeks in the the last three months of lessons. As we add Kings court in, most people won’t notice how importantly amazing and subtle adding that extra blue note to the improv scale Challenge actually is. What he introduces here was my gateway to freedom. It is the beginning of study on how all notes are connected. It is also fantastically training your ear to hear tonality. I did not figure that out for myself for about 5 years. I always had this weird sneaking suspicion but I could not prove it. Now I can. Point is,… if you just keep doing the lessons you will learn more than you think you are learning.
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I will try to simplify…..You can sit and learn song XYZ. If you have a time set in which you learn the song you will always be working against the clock. If you are new and put unrealistic expectations onto an effort you will have foxhole mentality which is antithetical to creative learning. If you set your goal by learning one chord (Em say) you will likely be successful. This is a dopamine trigger. Dopamine will bring you back over and over. Success is intoxicating. Next time having Em learned you learn D. Next time you connect the two. Too fast no reward. You are also developing your guitar physique. There are no short cuts, no trick to this. It is repetition over time….that is it. Play, stretch rest, get better. Take your time, have fun, find the success of every session. Enjoy the learning process of guitar. That is the key to getting better as fast as is possible.
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Today is the best session I have ever had: 9 year of playing. I could say that about yesterday too. Come to think of it the day before that as well. You get my point!?
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Chordie was my go to lookup.