jumpinjeff
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@Niels , love the schedule! I love this too, …”My fourth year in TAC is devoted to improvisation, and I am convinced that one of the prerequisites to this is to know the fretboard thoroughly, so every day I run an app on my iPad placing 100 random notes on the fretboard, and after nine months this is really showing an effect.”……I subscribe to a dude who does backing tracks and he puts the chords in. I have taken to playing the tritone on the change and including whatever extensions he puts on. I am still fairly slow when I get a new track but once I get everything located it turns quite musical. I never met an improv I didn’t like.
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@Spiz , I really like the recognition of accomplishment. Even in the most challenging of lessons if I focus on what I can do at the end of session I have that sense of accomplishment. Really good reminder for me because if I don’t direct my thoughts I can get caught up in what I can’t do, in creative destruction sort of way.
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Nice @Maydog . I now see how you make progress like you have. Are you sure Mo isn’t just objecting to the dry food?
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Nice routine @donmul . You said….” My progress was nearly non-existent because each time I played I felt like I started over again. It was frustrating to feel like I had played for a while, but had nothing to show for it.”….Oh man does that strike a chord. That was my story before I found TAC. Keeping time on the doggies bellies: priceless!
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Hi @Marquita , great big light bulb. I love how you said this…”But, oh, how wrong that stinking thinking can be!”…so so true. My biggest impediment to my progress is me. Super good reminder. Love those wins.
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Hi There @DanielC , I have tissue paper fingernails so I am a pad player. I have integrated into my FP lessons a component of Dynamics training. Tony Polecastro did an interview with Pete Huttlinger (it is on the Acoustic Life web page) before he passed and one of the things Pete talked about was playing as loudly as he possibly could and quietly as he possibly could. I found this develops my mind muscle connection to the strings. In practice I explore the extremes, not that I would ever use that in playing but it helps calibrate my touch so that when I want more volume I can get it at will. I tried plectrums but gave up on those fairly quickly. It didn’t feel right for me. That said If you have not tried those give ’em a go and see what you think. You may find they are exactly what you are looking for.
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I have found tremendous benefit and faster skill acquisition when I take one exercise and focus intensely on just the one exercise for 15 minutes. Worth a try?
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Great Small win @SherryH , you are so right about the journey being long but what an amazing journey it is once you open your mind’s eyes. I wonder if anyone has ever gotten to the end. I am thinking no, you just kinda keep going around, maybe second time around we skip in triple time?
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I wonder if that means we could jam IRL really well together?🤣
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Yes @Guy_H the sleeves were originally for when I was riding. They have been repurposed for guitar.
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I kinda leaned into that one didn’t I? 🤣
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Thanks @Bill_Brown , winning every day I pick up and play.
The “Tool” is a little piece of history. It is a 1992 Breedlove C1 quilted Maple with Adi top. It is the 19th guitar off of Breedlove’s production line signed by both Larry Breedlove and Steve Henderson. It is a gem.
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Definitely the Curs. I just notice in my Photo the young one, Redwood “Woody” Guthrie, photobombed me.
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You gave me a gift. I would not have found TAC without you being busy. 😄 It was painfully obvious I need professional help. 🤣
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Yes, I get what you are saying now. From what I have gathered from listening to Tony’s evolving philosophy, targeted focus on a single thing yields better results than many things simultaneously. Are you finding that within the weeks structure you don’t feel you have enough variation to develop how you want? For instance I will do the Monday “warm up” every day, each session I have. I may also do the improv for the previous week equally as many times. It can be redundant but there are cool things that happen as I get beyond the boredom of the repetition.