jumpinjeff
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@Marquita , the course is located in the “skills” section in the subcategory “Guitar Techniques”. I was just thinking about this myself. I have settled into my own routine over the years and wanted to compare what I do to what Tony found works. My curiosity was piqued by a forum discussion Atty TJ started. Have fun.
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@Moonhare creative vid! As I was watching I heard a choir of angels singing “And the truth sets another one free”. Wishing you fast progress toward your goals.
The dust on the guitar….CLAASSSIC. A little dampness and I am sure you would have had moss.
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Nice win @H.W. That has been my experience too. The more I do the more I want to do more. The lessons continue to reveal little gold nuggets each time I do them. The more dots I connect the more I see how everything is related. What I initially thought was a linear journey has now become a circular one. Each revolution reveals greater detail.
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@AttyTJ , I have this as well, mine is early stages and comes and goes. Mostly comes when I am playing and goes when I stop. I do two stretches that help me. With my elbow bent (forearm against bicep) palm down (keep hand flat) so my arm looks like a duck head I gently press on my hand rotating it externally gently stretching. Then do the opposite rotation. keep hand flat and rotate all the way back internally so with palm down my fingers point at my shoulder nearly touching it and gently stretch by gently pushing the internal rotation. Lastly elbow bent palm up fingers splayed (keep splaying as you stretch), I gently stretch (extension) both ring finger and pinky simultaneously feeling the stretch in my fingers, that outside edge of my palm and forearm. Think of silly putty as you do this: stretch too fast and it snaps but stretch gently and slowly and you will be amazed how flexible you can be.
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Hi @musicianmh The loudest acoustic guitars I have heard are the Roy Smeck Radio Grande or Stage Deluxe. Gibson is the original maker of these signature models. For vintage guitars these can be found at a discount compared to other vintage guitars. They have all been modified as they were originally made for slide play. There are several modern luthiers who have reproduced them including Santa Cruz, Gibson (reissue) and Rockbridge. They are 12 fret to the body and are loud and can be driven hard to be even louder.
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Hey @fishandchips1947 , I am with you. My goal (now) in these exercises is to eradicate tension. I will go as slow as it takes to do that. Heck I go down to 30 bpm if that is what it takes. It still surprises me how fast I can increase speed once I have moved into and through the absence of tension threshold.
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Congratulations @Michelle-PSL , I echo Joe W, now that you have this exercise in the books, what’s next? I know, pick your favorite song of the bunch and play that everyday for 100 days😄 Whoa,… I think I am going to do that.
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Dood @RealKurt , It is time,… time to quit your day job.
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Congratulations @dennisg , I have enjoyed your youtube channel. Hope you regain your voice quickly!
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What is shame? My knowledge of the concept comes from lost opportunity. I am not sure this is what you mean?
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right on @Marty69 : you nailed it, “there is no wrong way, there is no right way”!
I am going to build on that. There is the sound you make and the sound you want to make. Hopefully they are the same. TAC etc. is where I can find a way to align those two things. For alignment purposes I throw this one out there for @Dave.r.porter. There is a G chord you can make with one finger by covering the the B and E strings at the third fret bar style (one finger covering two strings) don’t play the bass strings E,A, only stum the DGBE strings and if you want a low base note reach up with any free finger and cover the Low E string on the 3rd fret to add the low G bass note. As long as you mute the A string (use the meaty part of the finger covering the low E string to mute) this makes a lush G chord.
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I want to iterate that it is more than the stretching exercise itself it is how you stretch. These exercises are geared for releasing tension not creating tension so if you feel the stretch you may have gone too fast. The onset of the exercise is to move to the point when you feel the muscle starting the stretching fase. At that point wait until you can feel it release and then stretch a micron more and wait again for the release. It is a different concept from the athletic type stretching I do for sore muscles etc. That type of stretching I stretch to feel the stretch. This stretching focuses on feeling the release. Apologies for redundancy but so important it bears repeating.
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