jorgemac
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Coach your are profound…
The difference in learning and practicing makes complete sense. You can practice tune but , for me to learn it i have to do what you suggested and mess with it. Tear is apart, change chords, change the strum pattern, finger style it, add 7th’s and minors and 9ths , hammer ons pull offs and slides.. I have to be able to make my own version to care about learning a tune.
Skyman, you might try that and see if it cures your boredom. Make that tune “your” tune.
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I think this will give you and idea of what i enjoy doing.
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This is the one I am working on for about 4 days now so I am still in the 1st version of this new tune.
Am…………………………………F
If you were on a mountain
Am ………………………………………F
with a sky that was true….. blue
Am ………………………………………..C
And you found an enchanted fountain
Em…………………………………….Am
Would you take a sip or……two
I have developed a chorus and 3 verses in the last couple of days and am having a totally excellent adventure.’It is finger strumming and picking tune and is totally rough and raw, but it is keeping me off the streets and out of mischief.
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My journey is a little different. I’ll be 80 a a few months and I have picked for a long time and learned more in the few months than is the past few years. I might not have picked well but do a have a list of songs I can play whenever I want. Because my level of playing is improving and changing so rapidly i am always learning new ways to pick my “standards” and do not approach any of them the same way I would have picked them a few years back. All of this has pretty much changed in the last few months as I have gained knowledge and confidence in my guitar talents.
Now i try to develop rhythm patterns that i find interesting and become proficient with a couple of new patterns a month and work on those every day and incorporate some of the TAC lessons we work on every day.
Along the way to picking these patterns I usually try to write some lyrics to fit into these patterns. Just like the developing chord patterns and strumming or finger picking these patterns. The lyrics are evolving constantly. Mostly I enjoy telling stories.
Some day if the guitar lords are willing, I’ll have a batch of my own creations to lean back on and call my own. It is a very slow and highly fun and entertaining and developing process with many more failures than successes. Buy i sure love it.
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I think Moose and Pete have an app that lists all of the lesson and is down load-able. maybe they’ll chime in for this as it comes up quite often
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If the guitar hasn’t been set up it will be harder to play. If it is a good guitar it is worth the expense of having a shop set the guitar up. When buying guitars you do get what you paid for. Cheap guitars, less than $500, are not made with a lot of care and are harder to set up. a good guitar purchased used may need a pro set up and you will be shocked at the difference in the playability of a properly set up guitar.
Pete has been learning how to do his own set ups and may have some good advise on this .
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If you are playing every day think about taking a day off every week and let those muscles and tendons relax for 24 hours. i find this very hard to do so as my parents used to say don’t do what I do, but what i say to do….. remember that one.
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Hey Mave,
what kind of an angle is your fretting hand at when wrapped around the bottom of the neck?
If you are trying to look at the strings while you fret you are probably putting a lot of stress on your wrist by bending and holding that angle for a long period of time. Practice a few minutes a day on a few chord progressing with your eyes closed so you don’t have to bend the wrist a lot to fret the notes.It will take a while to get good at not needing to look at the strings.
As i have said in other forum sections I use a therapeutic squeeze ball almost every day and squeeze and release and bend my wrist a lot every day. also i use the chinese steel balls and roll them around a lot while reading or doing activities that don’t require my hands. All of this seems to help, but I do notice that there are angles that i hold my wrist in that do put a lot of stress on it. I use CBD cream when the pain is noticeable and that does help also.
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Huh, it was so long ago that i don’t remember how I organized my learning process of learning the fret board. I know one of my practice tools that i still use and also incorporate in my riffs and walk ups to following chords is double stops of each note all the way up to the 15th fret.
Open treble E and 2ndfret D for an E double stop and just walked that position up the neck calling out each double stop note position. Same with 1st fret B string and 3rd fret A string, C double stop walked up the neck.
Or 2ndFret G note A and open A string walked up the neck.
3rd fret B string D note and open D string.
That was One of my methods of learning the fret board.
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Where are these patterns located? What lesson?
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I always thought that learning guitar theory would help me improve my picking. It did not help as much as i would have liked as my problems weren’t in that area but in actually playing the guitar.
This TAC course we are all taking daily, has definitely helped me become much more proficient in actual guitar picking and the fact that I am very knowledgeable in guitar music theory has just exploded my learning curve. i bought books and video’s regarding guitar music theory and have been able to lean back on all of that acquired knowledge and actually apply it to my guitar playing.
if you have strong guitar picking fundamentals you do need to learn guitar theory. If your fundamentals are week the theory will not change your ability to play fundamental guitar strumming or picking. Only practice will help you make chord changes and strumming patterns, and finger picking patterns.
So, if you can make all of the cowboy chords and can go from a C chord to and F chord to a Am chord to a G chord either strumming or in my case finger picking you are ready to learn more guitar theory. If you can make simple barre chords in major and minor chords you are ready for guitar theory. If not.
Set a goal to learn some simple chord progression and buy a guitar theory basic book.
Then you will be ready to take the fretboard wizard course or if you feel comfortable with what you have learned in a basic guitar theory book buy a more advanced book.
Lack of practice won’t help you improve your guitar skills to the point that you need to learn more advanced guitar theory.
Just my .02 cents thoughts.
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I am definitely not a techie and am very average or below average on computers. I think a lot of seniors would agree that making it easier to find different items would come in handy.
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That guitar looks like an all mahogany Martin.
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You can print out each tabbed lesson at the right hand bottom of each video lesson.
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To true, Pete