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I have a D’addario finger exerciser thing that I use when I travel and can’t bring a guitar. I have a smaller bodied Taylor GS-Mini and for road-trips I’ll try to bring that along which has been nice. Also, when traveling I’ll try to visit guitar stores and try out guitars and use that time to do some fingering exercises or chord transitions or practice a song I’m working on a few times, etc.

Another thing I’ll do is use the Fretonomy app on my phone to do fretboard memorization or scale drills.

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Totally love this – thanks for sharing, what a great story and feeling!

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Press only as hard as you have to get a clean tone. Practice playing lighter and lighter just until it sounds bad and then press a little bit harder than that. I practiced that for a while and still go back to it when I feel like my hand is getting crampy or tired. It’s usually not because I’m playing too long or something too hard, but that I’m just squeezing too hard. Rock on!

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Thanks coach! 🙂 Much appreciated – hope you have a nice week.

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Thank you so much Lankerking! I really appreciate the kind words and encouragement. I hope you have a great week ahead and get to play a lot of guitar!

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Thanks StringSlinger – great name. 🙂 Hope you have a nice week ahead!

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Thanks Albert!

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Hey Lorraine – thanks for the compliment!! I always appreciate your feedback and encouragement. 🙂

I’m not sure I remember where I got it from. I normally just try to listen to the songs a lot and get as close as I can to what sounds like the recording. I don’t always get it right but I get close enough that it works.

Rock on and I hope you have a nice week ahead!

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Thanks Mike! I learned some chords and a few songs in college and then didn’t play for ~20 years. I started noodling again in the summer of 2022 and joined TAC in October of 2022. I’ve played pretty consistently almost daily for 30-60minutes for the past 2 years. How long is a hard question to answer – as Tony likes to say we are all on our own guitar journey. I like Tony’s focus on where I was last week, last month, last year and how much I’ve grown in that time. Some week’s it doesn’t feel like much, but when I look bat a month, or a quarter, or a year – I can really see the growth.

My sister said something really nice last week – ‘you’ve gone from someone who looks like they are learning guitar to someone who is just playing guitar’. That’s gonna stick with me. 🙂

Rock on and I hope you find some time to play today!!

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Thanks Philb! I listen to the song a bunch and sing the lyrics in my head as much as possible when I’m not listening to it. I struggle remembering the order of the verses and I try to use the last word of the prior verse as a keyword for the next verse if I can.

There’s a long one on deck – stay tuned! Hope you have a great week, rock on!

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Thanks Albert!

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Cool – thanks Jack! Yeah those guys sound pretty good, right!? 🙂

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Thanks Philb – my voice was never something I was proud of. It’s only with the encouragement of the TAC fam that I started working on it and it’s slowly getting better. I still have way more off-key days than on-key days, but the on-key days are more frequent than they used to be!

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Thanks Marisa!