[jorgemac]

String arrangement are

1st Treble E string

2nd B string

3rd G string

4th D string

5th A string

6th Bass E string.

So if i suggest treble E/3 thar would be the 3rd fret of the treble E string fret for fingering position.

I started so long ago that I can’t remember if G was a hard one or not. Pete gave you excellent advise. Because there are 4 g notes available in the 1st 5 frets there are various ways to play the G chord.

You can play a G5 chord on E/3, B/3 and the open G string.

Another G chord is G/3, B/3 and G/4. There are other ones too . But It is importsnt to learn the 1st “folk” versions.

G/3, A/2 and Bass E/3 was the first one I learned

[jorgemac]

Perfect explanation JnJ. Thanks

[jorgemac]

Pete makes a good point. I do this all of the time learning a song with vocals.

1st it helps you know where the chord changes are when singing. If you are having timing problems, like I did for years, I finally gave in an started practicing with a metronome. The first few sessions really showed me how weak I was and at times still am, either rushing the timing or being to slow or putting chord changes in the wrong location. It helped my singing to. When to pause, when to stretch out a word, etc.

You can slow down Tony’s video lessons which I always do before actually practicing Thursday and Friday chord reviews. I just put the video on half speed Watch his strumming patterns, put it on pause and Tapping my foot practice what he just did.

Put your ego in your back pocket and actually, slowly practice what your are viewing.

I break my actual practice times, Not the video portion but my actual time I have a guitar in my hand down to 20 minutes or less depending how close I am coming to a good replica of the lesson. I usually do the lesson 3 times a day and improve with each session but the metronome is almost always being used.

You sound like me, have a good idea of all of the pieces needed to pick and grin, just need help in where to do what.

[jorgemac]

Too true J.J.

the scales stay the same in each key, just the sharp/flats change fret positions.

Dm key Or a Am key use the same notes of there own scale. 1, 3b, 4, 5, 7b.

The fret locations change for sharps and flats in each of the 2 keys.

[jorgemac]

I’m in my 1st year and do wish it was still available.

[jorgemac]

Real life is full of constant irritations. Being older I usually let the irritations slide by the wayside. Love what you do and what you have nursed and built over the years. A few hiccups are expected. Life isn’t a box of chocolates. Sometimes sand gets mixed in. Keep on chugglin.

Now, if you would add a couple of new songs a year…

[jorgemac]

Great comments from a lot of different sources. I’ve always had a problem holding onto the pick. The “recommended” way to hold the pick seems, to me, to be the thumb and index finger at an angle and to learn to hold the pick with a light grip.

Like a lot of you I was always having to adjust and reposition the pick. After many years of fighting this issue I purchased a few Dunlap Prime Tone 1.5, 1.0 and .75 large triangle style picks . The 1.5 I use regularly is huge and I use and thumb and 2, yes 2 fingers to hold the pick fairly firmly.

Because I mainly am a Hybrid style picker, which means that I use the pick for strums and also finger pick a lot while still holding the pick, I have learned to release the 2nd middle finger from the pick to do the finger picking or split double stop spaced string picking.

I have been doing this for almost a year now and have become comfortable with the dual style picking format and the thumb and 2 finger pick hold. No more uncomfortable picking holding issues.

[jorgemac]

Just saying that if you know the actual note under your fretted finger it will help make your guitar playing learning curve move along a little quicker. There are a lot of important parts to learning to pick cool sounds. If you don’t know where you are on the fret board it will take you much longer to advance your learning curve.

I could talk about music theory For a long boring time, If you fret an D chord on the 2nd and third frets what note in that chord is under each fret. 3 notes usually make up any major chord, the root note the 3rd note of the scale and the 5th note of the scale. Which scale note is under each finger? the root note is located on B/3 fret, the 3rd of the Chord is located on the E/2 fret and the 5th of the chord is located on the G/2 fret. Id you wanted to use that chord shape and play a D minor what finger do you need to move and where do you move it to? Again if you know the fret board you can salve this easily. Just move the E/2 back to E/1 and you are playing an D minor chord’

If you move that chord down the neck 2 frets the order will be the same but the chord will be a E chord. What finger do you need to move to make the E chord a E minor chord? just copy what you did t0 change the D to D minor. Again if you know the fret board it all makes sense.

[jorgemac]

If you call out each note’s name as you pick them you will learn the fret board much faster. If you call out a fret location to me I can give you the note’s name. Not bragging just stating that I always called out the note’s name so I know where all of the notes are located on the fret board.

How many G notes are there on frets, open string to 5th fret of the fret board – 4. How many e notes- 4. How Many D notes – 3. Learn that and you can figure out any chord shape any where they are located.

How many c chords within the same area- 5 different shapes. How many C chords on the treble strings E, B, G in the same area- 2

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• This reply was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by  jorgemac.

[jorgemac]

Many years ago when buying a 1st guitar for my granddaughter as a surprise gift as she was fascinated watching me play. I played many different entry level guitars for hours. I kept coming back to the cheapest one as it seemed to speak to me. I kept thinking that I can’t buy the cheapest one. I have to keep looking for a “better” guitar. I ended up buying the inexpensive one for her. If the guitar “speaks to you” that is the one you want. She still plays the same guitar all of the time.

[jorgemac]

The magic word is metronome. I have a super deluxe Boss DB-90 because I think this tool has helped me more than any other tool. I used to hate using it because I knew ,just knew, that I was too good to need help with a metronome. Had to put my ego in jar and bury it in the dark, while blind folded, s I couldn’t find it easily.

I turned that puppy on and set it to 70 BPM and found out that I was not as hot as I thought I was.. Take heed and listen to Moose, start at a much slower speed and only increase the tempo when you can actually increase the tempo mistake free at the old tempo.

Actually, I still hate it cause it keeps me honest, which is not as much fun as thinking about how cool you and your guitar are. Very humbling tool.

[jorgemac]

Hey Pete, That is how I learned. single string bass blues notes run. That is the reason that i had a learning moment with last weeks lessons. I was not used to sliding the palm down the the strings so that my palm arrived on the treble E string for an partially muted upstroke.. and rest and then the Fretted B and G strings. worked on it over the week end and again, before TAC practice this morning and it is much smoother now. So I feel comfortable palm muting all 6 strings one note at a time or in chord shapes.

My muting background began when learning( still learning) finger picking on acoustic blues tunes and partially muting the bass notes and runs. But that was usually only one the bass E, A, and D strings. Never needed to partially mute the treble E string before. For My palm mute on that bottom treble string i learned that by lightly resting my palm near the wrist/arm break area above the saddle/bridge area of the treble g string I was able to mute the E, B, and G strings with a partial mute. Of, course every one has different sized hands so this might not work for everyone.

[jorgemac]

Be sure to click on all of the different options located on the left hand side of the opening page. There is a skills section and 5 day start section and a Quick start guide that will answer most of your questions. For me the Skills section is my weekend guitar lessons that i go through over and over again.

[jorgemac]

I’m not on a mac and use Goggle Chrome without any of these problems. Listen to Pete as he can guide you through most entry problems.

[jorgemac]

The other thing, I was trying to learn how to finger pick(still trying…).

So I used the thumb as my picking finger, no pick back then. That creates a different tone than pick muting does. Try to learn both ways of palm muting.