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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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Is it me or is this getting easier? I don’t know, but whatever it is, I LIKE IT!!!!

Your snowball is rolling down the hill and gaining mass. Winning.

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I just drove by. I couldn’t get in.

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whatever nerves you felt surely were gone but the second lyric phrase. Seemed pretty Fletch-ee-pooh magical from this side of the camera.😉

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C’mon now, we know whose fault it is….Fletchchchchch. He aggravated the hamsters.

Hello, is there anybody out there? nod if you can hear me is there anyone at home…?@ Fletch…..Bueller…..anyone?

I got back into New! Message From Tony. Wow there are quite a few posts, yessir quite a few.

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@ Loraine S:

“how others perceive their work and effort’s value and motivation”

That was a roadblock for me, I did not find meaningful progress until I abandoned that notion. I had to figure out how I could be intrinsically satisfied. External recognition didn’t make me want to play, it made me want to stop. My intrinsic motivation came in the form of personal recognition of progress (acquisition of applied knowledge and skills) small wins right?. I was distracted by the many voices of external recognition. My extrinsic reward comes from being able to sit down and play anything with anybody. Letting go of what you think about my journey up until now freed me to focus on *right now do we like the sound we make when we play together*. The sound I make is the story of my journey. My sound is my badge. My sound is my extrinsic reward. When I can make that sound with another musician harmoniously and in time, I am intrinsically satisfied. The only way that happens is by finding the joy in the effort, that is the “fun in learning” part.

BTW, Love these conversations!!!

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and the “result” of the effort is real too. The result is the playing experience. 100% agree the effort is real. I want my real effort to have practical results relating to my goal.

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yes I get what you are saying. The badges had a meaning, they were a virtual representation of effort. What if we change the focus from the virtual representation to the real world. I have tremendous satisfaction every time I strum a Bm chord and it rings clear, when I need to make a minor chord and I can identify the 3rd degree and flatten it the get my minor tonality, when I make a D shaped Gchord on the 7th fret and then do an octave run G to G as a result of knowing the CAGED system. Those are the rewards I cherish. And they are never going away as long as I keep playing.

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😃❤👍

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Great question: “what’s this all for anyways”? The answer I found, It is to learn to play guitar. Seems simple but the proof is in the pudding not the badges one has, or not.

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