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Good point @petelanger ! I did mine when I would write my annual reflection but I passed 11 in May and have been having too much fun to shlogg around in the files and pages and am therefore late in my update. We are a community and I owe that at a minimum as I have been given so much.
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Great post, thanks for putting it up….going through it is inspirational….keep playing David. I am gonna go play more.
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The hardest jam sesh you will ever go to is the one you just had. Nicely done guitar player! Keep going as often as you are able. Each time especially at first gets better and better. Get your stand set up. Don’t prep, keep doing what you are doing. Try playing without looking at a song sheet. I am not talking about memorizing the progression but pick a song and feel your way through it. Find the key and feel. As you are feeling your way, think about your key feel those changes and guess what sounds are likely to come next (higher or lower is a good start). You have made it to a very exciting part of the journey. I am stoked to hear it!!!
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Yep! I remember the days when you would find socks stuffed in your soundhole. Hehehehehahahah. Coocookachew.
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forever! Nice milestone. When to we get the “Best Of” Lp? I know, I know…Steve was right.
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The way that works best is the one that brings you back tomorrow. All the songs fit forms. Play songs long enough and you will recognize the form and not think about what the chords are but how the form is being made to sound unique. What ever it takes to keep playing, do that, because recognition took me a long time to see. I would not have found it had I not learned here at TAC to making play my practice instead of practicing songs. I would not have lasted long enough to gain song form pattern recognition. The only wrong that can be done is having a bad time under the influence of expectations. Play, play with the sound, the string, the technique. Play without fear let go of expectations and you may find the fastest path to “proficiency” (okay, here is where I crack wise: is that your proficiency or my proficiency.)
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Congratulations @Bayvu2 . Now to design life with more time for playing!!
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Keep going. I have learned over and over that boredom is a sign of impending breakthrough. I remember periods of time when playing was about as fun as watching paint dry and then when I settled in for the long haul, …breakthrough… and some new to me ability manifested. I learned later on that making “play” my practice was also a good strategy. Boredom is now part of my process and does not cause me any concern, it is the opposite, I know good things are on their way!
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Hi Barbara, I had this same question. I kinda still do…? The solution I came up with: I listen carefully and knowledgably. I had to learn to listen to the vibrational waves as they align or seperate. When I tune a string using another string as the gauge for pitch when the tones start to get close there is a harmonic vibration that starts. It is a fast wah wah sound in the harmonic the two strings make. It is not the intitial sound the string makes when plucked but rather it is the sound of the wood of the guitar vibrating. As the two strings get close to aligned pitch the Wah Wah gets slower and slower until it just turns into Wahhhhhhh. The second pulse is lost when to two tones align. Here is when it gets fun….using the tuner and tuning two strings at the same time using the tuner as the guage. This is where I can mess around with the vibrational alignment and really hear the oscillations go from Wah wah wah wah to Wahhhhh wahhhhh wahhhhh, to Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I love playing with this stuff and I think it is because it elluded my sensory comprehension for so long. I can tune for 15 minutes messing around with different sets of strings and I don’t even realize the 15minutes has passed. I may be in the rabbit hole too deep. Good thing I have a flash light : )
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Congatulations @petelanger , in the best of ways it seems like you have always been here! Your contributions help me in ways difficult to explain. Keep going though and you will know.
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just goes to show what works for one may not work for others. Nothing against Tommy! Two of the oddest (guitar players player’s) playing styles are Elizabeth Cotton’s and Jimi Hendrix’s.
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Hi Pete, I am a little cranky this morning so my reply reflects that but there is a grain of truth burried in the sarcasm: I don’t need any new content until they come out with the new notes in the scale. : )
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I tried to attach a majestic pic of a horned Pegasus but I am tech handicapped. Thank god this is the acoustic challenge…no circuits and transistors to mess me up.
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My Tinnitus rings between C# and D sometimes B. I suspect it is all three and depends on my focus at any given moment on which I hear most prominently. Sound is such a funny thing.
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If you have 15 minutes of fun while tuning your guitar then you have met one of the non-exclusive bars for guitar geekdom. Funny and cool. The trick is getting your audience to have fun too. I am trying to remember: I think Neil Young was one of those who could tell a story while tuning for 15min and nobody seemed to mind. : ) Me?, I get my dogs howling when I start playing with those wave oscillations.