jumpinjeff
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Nag,nag,nag…NIce job Fletch and SWR,…nag,nag,nag.
When I was a kid my mom said she only nagged me because she loved me. So there you go.
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Hi @Bob57 is it your strum arm or your fretting arm?
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@Tommy2Strum nope not crazy. Used to be. Now you get to build your own lick library by favoriting the ones you like when you encounter them again. Can only be done by favoriting now. A small crumb: you can look on other peoples favorites and access them when you search other members. So someone like @Loraine has a dozen or so in her favorites accessible to you when you search her. And lo and behold you can favorite the lick from there. Did everyone know that and I am just late to the party?
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Hi @mkjohnsons , a really great question you pose. When if first started I was so eager to learn some tunes I just did them kinda whatever way I could and initially due to my impatience I learned many a tune wrong, meaning not the way the composer had written it. Over time I became aware that a good amount of the coolness of the songs I liked and wanted to play was in the details (great example of this is Neil Young’s Old Man, the changes don’t happen at the measure or even half measure but rather at 3/4 measure with a single beat change at the end to catch everything up) Of course I was not into simple songs, right?… I found myself going back and relearning most of what I had initially learned. Over my life I had always been focused on the vocal without much thought to rhythm and changes. My story is about going from being lyric focused to chord change focused. Today once I get the changes and the rhythm then I start to lay lyrics on top. It can come in the form of vocal or instrumental melody. I work the structure, the bones of the song if you will and then flesh it out. The words are the last thing. This transition of focus took me a while, as in years…to be fair I am a slow learner.
As for the memorization, for me that seems to only happen with repetition. I have to play something over and over….like a three minute song I have to play 10 times in a row everyday for three months and then I get it. For me it is repetition over time that locks it in. It took me two years to learn Robert Earl Keens Gringo Honeymoon…lotta words in that song plus the strumming pattern was an adventure unto itself.
Now I dissect stuff measure by measure to get it right. Does it take a long time? Yes it does, but it is one of the most satisfying puzzles to work out. And taking the time to get it right helps me play it like I cant get it wrong. And when I am done…there is no more guessing.
Here is the best part of it all: the more I do it the faster it goes. #Small win….winning!
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@ladyjo516 , I send you my sincere condolences. I read your post with my wife, we both felt the strong emotion connected to your situation, we hugged and shared a tear. Thank you for the reminder. I am with Bernie on being gentle with yourself and Brian P in taking your time to workout your grief. Today I grieve with you. I virtually reach out to hold your hand. My wife and I send you our love and send your husband that love as well. You are both on a new journey. It is my belief there are no ends only new beginnings. There are some songs, when I play them, I get super emotional when I think about those folks no longer with me. It is not an unwelcome feeling it is cathartic. Perhaps in time this release will find you. Peace to you.
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Okay, how many guitars do you own?……Defense rests.
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👍👍👍
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Yep I am with you there @Philb , lets start a collection so we can buy that place and turn it into a TAC recording haven.
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I look forward to seeing/hearing you play. This song opened quite a few musical doors for me as I worked it out…still working it!
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Marty69 has 17 saved in his favorites that plus the 3 currently available for this month so far (one more next week) gets you about half of the old library. Small win? Maybe? The rest will come as we go through the rest of the year.
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Watching, soaring, drifting effortlessly toward harmonic resolution. Dissonance is without, within there is pure harmony; yes, even hidden in the 1/4 tones. I see you, I know you, I love you. You have made me a better player. No Fear.
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Yep @Bill_Brown Melissa it is, great song. One of those scale songs that is almost like doing a Friday Key Chord study, except for the clever turn around and the bridge, its defining features.
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@campfire said: “I tried playing an A-shaped barre chord with index barring 3rd fret, but that’s not a C chord,”……
You are correct. If your index only bars the third fret it is a Bflat chord
To make a C chord, index finger bars the third fret (all strings) and the ring finger bars D,G,B strings on the 5th fret. I am focusing on those 3 strings because they are the three strings that differentiate the A shape from the other shapes (mostly). Bar those three strings on the fourth fret to make B chord and since there is only a half step between B and C when you go a half step higher to the 5th fret that is where the C chord is made. Again, only focusing on DGB strings. Any of those bars can be made into a 6 string chord “A shaped chord” if you bar the rest of the strings two frets back.