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@Kitman , you said it beautifully. This is the sweetest ride I have taken. And I have done a lot. Settle in, enjoy! That is brilliant wit. Fun 85% of the time and for the 15% when I get distracted and ahead of myself, I come and talk to you all here in the forum and get squared up again, settled in, enjoying the ride.👍💎
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OK, here we go @the-old-coach , Your goal of picking up and playing anything was also my very goal. It took me longer to get there than I expected. After seven years of solid effort I can do that most of the time. I don’t need a chord sheet. I don’t even need for someone to tell me the key as long as I can hear it for a verse and chorus. The only way I was able to get there was to trust the process and follow the teacher. While doing that I spent time listening to other players, watching other players and dissecting songs one measure at a time. I used what I learned in FW and in the Daily Challenges and the skills courses to be able to do that. It was painfully slow at first but I went faster when I let go of time. I always had a song to work on. Some I have been working for years as they were to complex for the knowledge that I had so I stuck them back in the folder and give them six months hit the daily challenges hard embrace the repetition, seeking the boredom that makes you go crazy and push through that. Right there, that push, that is when the magic happened for me and I would acquire the skill I was seeking, the breakthrough happens and everything changes…yet again. Play a song 1000 times and you will have breakthroughs. Pick one you like, it helps. : ) Play that ring finger staircase 1000 times, you will have a break through. Seems like a lot but it is only 3 hours give or take. I found music proficiency, like what I was seeking, had a path that led through extensive repetition. I had to kind of lose my mind to gain it back supercharged. Embrace the repetition, you are ready. The results were surprising. Questions?
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find a pawn shop when you get there and get anything, I got a great guitar in Iwa Beach HI for 90.00. There were cheaper ones too. sell it back when you leave or give it to someone.
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Hi @sahardellamorady , you did not indicate your price range. That is needed to give guidance. In the absence of price range…..I found this clip of Tony P. reviewing 5 best guitars under 500.00. Also check out the whole web page, it is a treasure trove of information and has other reviews/best of under 1000.00 etc. The link is below. Have fun in your search. I find the searching nearly as fun as the buying.
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Happy NGD @Daniel_Morin . Sounds delightful. I have been wanting one of these for years. Enjoy.
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You may want to contact Support for the most accurate info. Hit that little Question mark Icon at the bottom of our menu bar. I have had excellent results with this in the past. Of course past performance does not guarantee future results.🙂
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The answer to this question all gets down to what your goals are. Playing most 3 or chord songs, after a year is doable. Are you going to be able to play Landslide like Lindsey Buckingham or Wish You Were Here like David Gilmore…probably not. But you may be able to play a recognizable version of the songs. The best way I can describe the daily challenges is they are like a gym. You walk into a gym for the first time and you see weights and machines and you begin. You don’t start the first day with big weights you begin by learning the movements and as you learn the movements you slowly add weight. When you achieve your fitness goal or if you are training sport specifically reach proficiency in your sport you still hit the gym so you don’t lose what you have gained. Some of the guitar exercises are pro level exercises but can be broken down to levels that even a beginning player can play. It is why on TAC there are people who have been playing for years training right next to people who have just started. As you may have discovered TAC is not a place one comes to learn the choreography of how to play songs but rather it is a place to learn HOW to PLAY guitar. It is a place to train fingers and hands and mind in preparation for the Choreography of the finger dance when learning and playing a song. Without this component of training I was stuck in choreography limbo and ready to give up. I kept trying to learn songs I was not capable of playing and it was soul crushing. I have been here 7 years and I can play 95% of anything I want to play. 50% of stuff I want to play I can play without ever having heard it before. That last 5% beyond my current reach is reachable by persisting with the Daily Challenges and advancing methodically over time to my goal. Now you know why this multi year guitar trainee is happy to be here. I get to show up everyday and never have to think about what to do next. It is my personal training guitar gym. The biggest advantage is I keep getting better and closer to my goals. Why have I not reached my goals you may ask. I have over and over and over. I just keep making new ones. In the process I have become the player I have always wanted to be and then some.
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Well done. It is a tool. Used correctly it will work for you. Keep speed slow and sneak up on it, if the metronome is getting too annoying slow it down until you are relaxed and enjoying the current speed, then scootch it up a few beats per minute. So much easier for me than trying to chase the speed.
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If you are flying into Oahu you are in luck. Iwo Beach is super close to the airport. Have fun either way.
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@Cadgirl , so much out there: knowing where to look narrows the search. I like @Michelle-PSL ‘s recommendations but hard to know if they are applicable without $ range.
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Very true @Bill_Brown regarding warmer air. It is why we are concerned with relative humidity and why we acclimate for temperature slowly so as to not create condensation. Temperature extreme will not hurt guitars but rapid temperature changes can create moisture where we don’t want it. A guitar coming in from a cold (40degree+) temperature could accumulate moisture when rapidly introduced to the warm environment. This works in reverse too. Taking a warm guitar into a cold space will force the trapped air to shed water as it cools. Humidipaks are a fantastic remedy for helping even out the cycle.
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I totally get what you are saying @Bugman , That is what brought me hear. Can you learn to play basketball though if you have not learned how to run or bounce a ball consistently? Shooting a ball in a hoop is technically playing basketball. It falls short of playing the game. I got here not knowing how to run or bounce and got frustrated because the best I could do was shoot the ball. I thought that by shooting the ball everything else would fall into place but it didn’t. TAC showed me how to run, dribble and shoot (on the guitar fretboard that is). Now I can play any song I want, and most I don’t need the music on a sheet to know how to play. A couple of runthroughs and I got it. My progress was not instantaneous and I found no short cuts. What I found was a methodical way to get better over time that was fun and produced results of which I could keep track. Tracking my results was important for my progress because it was the engine of my motivation.
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I am chuckling: as I read the chart I am about 1/2 as fast as the chart identifies. I have always known I was a slow learner but now I can quantify how slow… .5 . Good thing Tony showed me the way to have fun while I learned.😆
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