jorgemac
Forum Replies Created
-
yep, there is many ways to pick the G chord.
My usual go to is thumb over the Bass E string, 3rd fret and barely touching the 5th A string to mute it and my index finger over the 3rd fret treble E and B strings. Just using those 2 fingers/thumb. Very economical and because I’ve been using this 2 finger shape forever is very fast.
-
interesting problem,
Petelanger may be able to help with this.
-
The smaller bodied guitars are generally thinner bodied than the Dreads. Most of my 000′ and concert sized guitars are 4 to 4 1/4″ just like the larger bodies. Just measured my Martin SC-28 and it is 4″. Of course they make guitars with the Shoulder rests angled on the bass side rear bout that does also release some of the strain on the shoulder.
-
Bill B has it nailed.
I have a hand made beautiful Canadian Proulx Dread that has some of the best tone of any of my guitars. I pick it up once or twice a year for a few days and marvel at the tone, then go back to my smaller bodied instruments that also have great tone. The Martin 000’s fit me perfectly, sound good and are easy to pick. I am Currently picking a Martin SC-28, a size down from Martin dread 28, it is closer to a concert sized guitar with vert sweet action and a Baggs pickup, love the tone. I am a great fan of the concert sized Larrivee’s, Taylors and my special Yairi’s which beat all of my other guitars for playability and sweet sounds.
Acoustic Bagg’s Pickups make all of my guitars sound BIG, so I don’t need to strain my shoulder to enjoy playing as loud an I want.
If you have a decent Dread you might be able to get a decent deal on a smaller bodied guitar.
-
My learning curve simply exploded upwards once I learned the fret board note positions. If you know what notes make up each major and minor chord you can find that chord in many different places. In the first 5 frets there are 5 different Ways to make a C chord. It all falls into place when you know what notes make up chords and can find their locations on the fret board.
There are 3 C notes, 4 G notes and 4 E notes that you can combine to make up 5 different C chord patterns. in the first 5 frets. I use 4 different D chord shapes in the same 5 frets. There is always something new I learn every time I pick up my guitar. It all comes back to being able to find all of the different note positions.
Each of the 6 strings on a guitar contain all of the available 12 notes that we use to make up music.
The top and bottom string have notes in the same fret position so you only have to work on knowing where the notes are located on on the other 4 strings.
10 minutes a day learning where the notes are will change your playing dramatically if you know how and what notes are in each of the 7 major chords.
-
My learning curve simply exploded upwards once. I learned the fret board note positions. If you know what notes make up each major and minor chord you can find that chord in many different places. In the first 5 frets there are 5 different Ways to make a C chord. It all falls into place when you know what notes make up chords and can find their locations on the fret board.
There are 3 C notes, 4 G notes and 4 E notes that you can combine to make up 5 different C chord patterns. I use 4 different D chord shapes in the same 5 frets. There is always something new I learn every time I pick up my guitar. It all comes back to being able to find all of the different
-
My problem when purchasing another guiar is a space to keep it. I am almost embarrassed embarrassed to mention how many I own. the one truism is you can only play one of them at a time, but I doo rotated sometimes twice a week.
-
They make good guitars . One of the reasons they are easy to play is they are strung up with 11’1 instead of 12’s. I’ve play one of my students Zager guitar it had good tone the setup was spot on.
-
I know exactly what you talking about. I listen to KCBX out of San Luis Obispo a lot in the mornings and there is a 3 hour music show that i listen to pretty much every week day. i have a binder full of songs that I have heard and downloaded from Songsterr.com.
I finally had to limit the learning to a whole week for each song and not allow any of he other songs to interfere with learning that tune. On Friday I heard Going Down the Road feeling Bad by the Dead and have worked on it every day for an hour or two and am adding more every day, but not allowing other songs to interfere with the learning process. Should have my own version down by Wednesday and I’ll Start on another new tune probably on Friday.
-
This reply was modified 2 months, 3 weeks ago by jorgemac.
-
This reply was modified 2 months, 3 weeks ago by
-
The photo does not show much arch in your fingers. Your finger tips, up by where the finger nail ends and the finger pad begins, need to be the only part of you finger that touches the guitar string.
My hand palm is resting right up against the fretboard/neck joint of the guitar as this puts more arch on your fretting fingers and allows you to just use the finger tip, at downward angle, to fret the string.
Takes a bit of time and effort to get used to this. See if that helps.
-
After I logged into my Apple. I was able to log into windows also. This happened a few days ago, also, not to the extent it did today where I was locked out for a few hours.
By the way, nice to have you back. Your comments are always helpful and inciteful.
-
I saw a lot of positive and.. negative comments.
My .02 cents is
Fridays lesson was Berry Be Goode.
i did this lesson in the keys of A, 1st position capo’d 1 fret so i was playing in Bb, also in the keys of G/capo’d 1 fret, E/ capo’d 1 fret . C/capo’d 2 frets so it was in the key of D. Then I moved Tony’s lesson down and began it on the 5th String/E flat and the 4th string./A flat.
When I was a child I could take a rock, my mother’s hair brush, a kitchen spoon and a piece of string and make up all kinds of games to amuse myself. No TV or smart phone around to distract me from learning and using my imagination.
Now with these lessons I do this same thing with “grown up” guitar games.
You can take any of these daily lesson and stretch your mind and fingers into new directions so that the lessons are always new and varied. Just up to you to actually do it.
-
Too true, I used to use mostly the pads and very little finger nail but wsn’t happy with the chord tones i was producing. for my style the finger nails just nail it down better pun intended…
-
Hey Sky, I keep my finger nail short, a 1/16th or a little more. and with the fibre glass tape and super glue nail polish or fake nails and and all the other steps I put myself through. I don’t have many problems using my finger nails. As i said it does take maintenance though to keep them trimmed and … burning.
-
The lesson music tabs also have a standard music staff above the tab and you can figure out what notes are picked and the strumming pattern from the music staff.