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That’s the way. How did you like it?
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Good question Mark. Put as much time into memory improvement as you find beneficial. More memory capacity sounds good to me. I have the memory of a gnat so even if i were to double it, I still am pretty weak. It is why I focused on how the puzzle all fits together rather than try to memorize this section or that section. Now I can play anything even if I have never heard it before. The more I go down the endless road the easier it becomes to recognize the clues as to where a song is going. One example is if I hear a 7chord it is telling me we are going somewhere I just have to figure out where. In key of G I hear the D and know it is the 5 chord and if I hear it with the 7 giving it that little twangy pull most of the time we are heading back to the G chord. If I am on a G and I hear C followed by a chromatic tone 99% of the time I am going to a D chord. Over time it has become intuitive (for me it is seemingly ungodly amounts of time but to be fair I am average or average- in musical aptitude). Super fun process as long as I stay in the process. Whatever you do just keep playing. Play more when you can. I guess my answer would be: memorizing is too granular for what I have upstairs, I telescope out and try to take in the biggest part of the picture I can stand.
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Very Nice @gwynne . I am a fairly linear scale person myself. The great thing about this one is once you get this scale down you have access to the 12 other major scales. Same pattern just different starting points. Small win for sure.
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Oh man oh man do I remember being right here. I wanted to learn a great Robert Earl Keen tune that I heard my buddy Tony S. play. It took me forever to get not only the pattern down then it was getting it to speed and then trying to add the vocals which meant slowing it waaaaayyyyy down again. The good news Alfred is I got it and in the process my skills got better and I loved the song so playing it 1000 times was not a problem for me. My wife and my dogs have different opinions on the subject. Take a period of time you can invest in the learning and set the timer and play it every day. You will get it. There will be times that it feels like you are watching paint dry, that means the breakthrough is coming. If you get stuck leave it for a while and work on other stuff and come back to it. You will be amazed.
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Hi Lisa18wheels, I can’t help with the memorizing thing but I can help philosophically based on my own experience. I hit roadblock after roadblock with memorization and even once memorized, making it practical and accessible to my fingers remained problematic. I found success when I broke it down to keys and sequences in the keys (especially regarding the songs I was learning and loved to play). All the while I kept?keep the concept of the wheel in the back of my head and when stuck I would refer to it. The wheels order, “rote”, was not my goal. Over time the relationships became more clear as a matter of familiarity and repetition. If you are composing maybe use it as a reference? I had greater success messing with scale, scale degrees, tonality, harmonic scales and triad scales etc interlaced with the CAGED concept. All those things are the building blocks of the Wheel. Seemed more doable in pieces. It is maybe why I liked Tony’s teaching method so much: worked in my addled brain. I didn’t have to memorize it, I could play by sound once I worked out the basic concept.
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We had a genuine Pink Moon rise last night. Tony did feature Nick Drake 5 or 6 Acoustic Tuesday episodes back, or it may have been the guitar party in February? Tuning is definitely a thing with Nick Drake. For Pink moon tune down 8Hz if you are going to play along with Nick’s recording.
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Clever Clever DTO, good little earworms in there. The stand out for me is the three down strokes and rest on 4 beat contrasted with the end when you do the melodic runs in the same space and use the four beat to accentuate the melodic run. I am taking notice and incorporating (fancy for: I am going to steal that).
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Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus
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🤨 Mark J
🤣🤣🤣 brilliant
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Hang on now @Fletch was passing them out on another thread….or was that on the old site. Darn this CRS syndrome.
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Well this scandinavian (yours truly) would be happy sharing the mountain with another boulder roller. I am just sad that I have to wait until it gets to the bottom before I can start rolling it up again.
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Mark Says:
“I like to use the tabs for the Daily Lessons. I guess my thought was- (and maybe this works along with your responses)- in some way– does just “playing only what your seeing” actually hinder a person’s ability to “learn”, or “see”, or “feel”, or “anticipate” the music? Wow- this is really hard to express in words, but I hope you get “the drift” of what I’m saying.”
Me:
<font face=”inherit”>Ya Buddy I get the drift. I am laughing because the way my head works TAB is my last resort when all else fails. I have not developed that skill at all. I say keep developing that skill but be aware there are others and they are different. Here at TAC you CAN do both if you want. I don’t think one hinders the other. They might possibly be mutually </font>beneficial<font face=”inherit”>. You can be a good swimmer and a good runner. I love pushing boulders </font>uphill. I just worry we may run outta hill,….nahhhhhhh.
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Likewise @Mike-Gaurnier , I prefer reading what you have to say rather than interpreting your emoji😉
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Hi @ron n, I found the AT Nick Drake episode in case you hadn’t