jorgemac
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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
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Just did today’s improv. Started with the backing tract that was very simple and easy to pick up do to all of the work we have done with bass note lead in. Then did scale and had much more fun and success with the chord arpeggios as usual as they were much easier to match with backing track.
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Pete is always trying to reassure newby’s about the TAC learning curve. He must help 2 or 3 newby’s a week get orientated to this form of guitar learning. He is a guitar trooper for certain of for shuuurrrr.
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My problem is I am not computer literate enough to record or post it or I have a devil of a time just putting this 1 arrangement on the forum. I have Tabbed 3 different arrangements just for this 1 lesson but don’t have enough computer knowledge and experience to post them. i tab these all of the time but can’t put them up.
i can get my printer even set up so I can add things to my files and just download them on things like the forum.
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Measure 2 G/6 to 7 to 10 can be changed G/6 slide to 7 to 5. if you want to pick a C note or it can be 6 to 7 to D/10(C). You interpret how it fits your style.
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1st measure last, note, should be on B/8, not G/8. Please modify.