jorgemac
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I checked your Bio and saw you are new and trying to complete the 30 day, 5 day and fretboard wizard at the same time. you might want to think about the amount of effort you will need to devote to all 3 to complete them and learn something from each of them. Big hunger, small stomach approach might be bit too much.
Now, that being said I did do the 30 day challenge Sunday afternoon and the 5 day challenge on that Sunday evening. but I had years of guitar knowledge to back it up, so it was more a review than learning new items I wasn’t comfortable with.
If that is your case then go for it, brother. But don’t let yourself burn out before you have even started. The first month on TAC I did do a lot of the offered side courses on the week end but they were mostly review and I used them to sharpen up my skills. I still check in on weekends and retake some of them. I’m retire and have the time to devote to this. It sounds like your are trying to continue a full time job and squeeze in the TAC lessons. I admire your determination to learn guitar but you may be overloading yourself and your time and work constraints. Good luck.
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I have no complaints of how my life has turned out. But…… if I knew back when I was 23 what i know now on the guitar…..
Bill B’s Allman Brother concert footage of the guitar playing in that concert is much easier to pick up on now. Not the nuances, but the actual notes being interpreted. Duane and Dicky would still play circles around me. Dicky’s pinky use is lighting fast and a revelation.
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THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
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That Allman Bros live at the Fillmore East is just a magic album. I saw them in the 70’s in New Mexico and they had a off night. Then saw the In San Francisco and they smoked the Fillmore West. One of my favorite concerts.
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Pete, that was pretty intense. Like the way they use the 1 mike blue grass style of performing.
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Good discussion, thanks Aservire.
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Yes, Plant and Krauss are a fantastic duet. When the levee breaks is a classic. I have to check out the S. Hull mad world. But everything she does is pretty special.
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Thanks Albert, Ms Krauss has a few great covers. It doesn’t hurt to have the best Dobro picker in the world in you band. Jerry Douglass is extraordinary. Janis did a great Job on Me and Bobby McGee.
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Great choices, I forgot about Steve Miller. he did one of my all time favorites and have it in my practice routine.
Mercury Blues or Crazy about a Mercury. A 53 Mercury 2 door hard top was my 1st car and i did love that car.
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Thanks Pete, that is a very simple and easy to follow explanation. All of us that work past the 5th fret know this info and don’t even think about it because we use it so often. It is also great to know this info when developing riffs in keys close to expanded chord shapes. Very helpful info.
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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