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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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You have it right @langerking : just a matter of when. Keep after it and it will improve.

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I was able to use the forums to reconcile the reality between my physical limitations and my hearts desire. Thank you Forum Folk!

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Headed for lightspeed now Moose, buckle up! : )

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the bar reprents the nut. There are 5 opened shaped major chords. Once you move out of open territory you have to remember that if moved up three frets the Em pent shape (now a Gm pent shape due to the location change) will have what use to be open strings now covered on the fret where you put your index to bar for an Em shaped Gm scale. I am not saying you should bar this but keep track of it as a point or reference. My index likes to have a good home base. I will bar for raking or tritone effect but I don’t leave it barred.

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Moose, good catch I was getting ahead in order of lessons. I will point out one thing to consider. All the pent shapes are chords, in fact every pent scale has within it a chord/triad and once you are aware it is easy to see the corresponding CAGED chord shapes in every scale shape. Kinda cool. I would go further by saying every chord/triad is the foundation that the Pent scale builds on by adding two notes. That is then the foundation for the Octave scale (two half steps) when two more notes have been added. Root Note, Chord, Pent scale, Octave scale. That is the hammer and nails of improvisation in order of complexity.

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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.