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In retrospect are you glad you did? I have found on the front side it always seems like it will be tought but in hindsight I am always glad I did and it usually pays a nice dividend in both motivation for next time and a bump in abilities.
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Hi @saybaw273gmail-com , welcome to TAC. I have to kinda echo Lorain’s comment that guitar is not easy. That being said there is a hard way and an easy way to learn. I know, I tried both. Here at TAC I found the easy way. By having fun everytime I picked up the guitar I stayed motivated and engaged all the while picking up the kinesthetic awareness, and strength necessary to make the guitar do what I wanted it to do. To get to your question? how long to play a song correctly. As long as it takes. Your time and my time to learn the same song will likely differ and if we compare it to the prodigy kid down the street who can play a song after hearing it once it may not serve our interests at making progress. My progress today is joyful progress, it never happens fast enough and yet it is alway happening. I have a great time so I don’t really sweat it. When I was solely focused on the time and not the joy of the process my progress was hard and slower and in many instances unpleasant. What I learned is when I put effort as my priority and not the results, my progress happened faster and my experience became wholly more satisfying.
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Hi @J.Dubs , have you decided what you would like to play? TAC is great preperation for what you want to play. The big picture is everything you do here will give you more bandwidth, more skill, more ability to play what you want to play. When you start playing what you want to play the lessons learned here will start weaving their way into your playing. Think of this as the gymnasium of guitar but not the field of play. That is as “big picture” as I can come up with.
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Maybe they are sharp? Did you put your tuner on to see the degree of sharpness?
All things equal they should sound the same as your old strings assuming your attack has not changed either. But then again "should and equal" are not what you have going on right?
The suggestions that the strings may be different guage are valid. Strings with different gauge have different tension. This could lead to variation in your attack. I put in a link to youtube that is great to see what happens to strings as they are activated. Depending on how you attack the strings they do differnent things. The more precise your attack is,.. the less distortion your string will make.(The more they vibrate parallel to the fretboard verses perpendicular, including going round and round.) Not saying that is the issue but it may be part of it.
I like @Bill_Brown ‘s research result and I would go as far as recomending putting those strings on your guitar and then work on you attack: meaning, can you find a way that does not induce the sound you don’t like…? That is the low cost way. If after that you still have issue take it in to a luthier show what the problem is and see what can be done.
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Hi @BobbyJ : I have taken the FretWiz course and recommend it highly. Once purchased you can return to it as often as you like, also a good idea. As you progress your brain gets wired up and things that seemed hard to follow are quickly comprehended. and you get on to a new level of understanding and challenges. If you can swing it FretWiz was money well spent for me.
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Hi @philly14 : your commitment to the daily challenge will serve you well. I have found that to be the single best use of my time as a player. No doubt about it,…when I first started the challenges were soooo challenging they were near impossible. I began to slow them way down and focus on pieces of them and by doing this I found great success and that fueled my desire to continue. You mentioned some were in your wheelhouse and some were over your head. When they are over your head you have the opportunity to grow your skills. I encourage you to wholeheartedly embrace those challenges and take advantage of working out the puzzle.
I have not found any one thing to be more important than the other. Everything I explore layers on new skills and creates new patterns in my mind for playing. Find something that appeals/resonates with you and explore it. Move on to something else what ever grabs your attention whether it is strumming, fingerpicking, flatpicking….you can’t go wrong. Revisit things you have done. Even a few months of daily challenges will change your skill level and brain wiring enough so that old lessons will seem new.
What do you want to play? That is a good place to start. If you can target that, you can find things that will support that more specifically but truly it all works together even though it may be hard to see how at first. There is no wrong way. The only wrong way is to stop playing. It is one of the beautiful things about the daily Challenges: never have to think about it…I just do it and as long as I keep doing it I continue to improve.
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Congratulations @msd2819 , I love the part about being able to just keep going. I struggled with that myself…no longer. I remember when I had to start over at the beginning when I made a mistake, I could not pick up where I was, had to wait till the sequence started at the beginning. Glad you found that skill.
Like with most things guitar the key to flatpicking is removing any and all tension. Wishing you fast progress toward your goals in the coming year!
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@drbrow congratulations. You are a total player. Call yourself a player for sure. Now in the next year you can work on becoming the player of your intention. On with the journey and I wish you fast easy progress.
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Da da doo doo doo, I can go east forever
Do do dah da dah I can go west forever
I can only go north for a while before I have to head south ewwwaahhhh.
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🔭🔬 🗺🌐😄👍 All’s I can say is I am glad Tony provides clear direction, always lighting the path.
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Only if you are well directed and highly disciplined then you will be able to make your straight line meet itself. I have more fun going awol and making a spirograph. And a wiggly one at that. I have the discipline of a golden retriever in a forest filled with squirrels. 😄 Like @Mrfredsporty says, the first and last rule is SHOW UP! After that it is a pretty big crap shoot.
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Right on @MikeGaurnier : this journey is one big circle that continues to repeat itself on different plains. It gets big and It gets small but in the end it is all the circle of notes. It can be a basic circle or it can be a spirograph with lots of detail, seemingly complex and then you realize it starts where it ends and it is all a bunch of loops. Sometimes it has a linear feel but then when I look out at the ocean on a calm day it looks pretty flat too and I know for a fact it is not.
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I had one more thought @speckpgh : make sure your string ball ends are seated on the bridge plate…? This would not cause the strings to make a sharp tone but you may get some extra unintended jangle if they are not snug on the bridge plate. You can check this if you have an inspection mirror or if not loosen your strings enough so you can get your hand in the sound hole and feel up underneath the bridge (I have XL hands and can get into most of my guitars); you will feel the bridge pins and then you can feel up to where the ball ends are and they should be in contact with your bridge plate. Look for a uniform feel beween you low strings and high strings. If you feel one or two of the balls are hanging into the guitar that may be some of it. Loosen your pin and pull up on the string until flush, reinsert pin, tune back up and good to go.
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@philly14 All those folks you mentioned use all the techniques and principles you will find in all of the skills courses. I would start with the “jumpstart strum skills course”.* So much good info that is useful in everything you are grooving to. I say that very reservedly as I don’t know where you are in the players journey. You would have to post some videos or we would have to have a few conversations to know that we are on the same page ideas wise.
*You should start with “TAC Quick Start” if you have not had a chance to do that yet. It explains the method. The end of that will direct you to 30 days to play: also solid stuff if you have not done that yet. All the foundation has to be laid before the gingerbread trim goes on. If you start with the gingerbread without foundation it becomes finger choreography without the muscles to do the super cool dancing. I found nothing but frustration there. It is how I actually started guitar.