[DiscostewLA]

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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[DiscostewLA]

Hey Brandon – I was able to find some local groups on meetup.com (and if not maybe you could start one!).

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Welcome to TAC! I’ll hit my 2 year anniversary in October – 613 sessions today. I still keep having days where I say WOW. Thanks Tony!

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Fun prompt Paul!

I’m playing with a Boss RC-1 looper. I only have acoustics but my GS-Mini has a pickup and so I use that with the looper and a small 15W Fender amp. I mostly just play a few bars with a chord or two and then practice scales/arpeggios/solos over them.

Also recently got a Scarlett Focusrite 2i2 and just started playing with that and Garageband to get all sorts of different guitar and amp sounds. I’m just playing around but it’s fun when I have the time.

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This is a great threa – thanks for posting everyone!

I can play about 30-40 songs (with some minor stumbles) and I try to learn 2-3 new songs every month. Sometimes I stumble on something that will take me a month just by itself. I struggle to balance learning new songs and practicing songs I already learned so I don’t forget them.

Short term goals: Some classic Beatles songs and maybe some of the popular Jason Isbell tunes – but they are really hard!

Long term goal: Never Going Back Again (learned it – just have to practice it about 10,000 more times)

[DiscostewLA]

Supercool song and well played Braden! I wasn’t familiar with this and excited as others to dig deeper into this music. Reminded me of some Tom Waits. Rock on and have a great weekend!

[DiscostewLA]

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!

[DiscostewLA]

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!

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Are you trying to memorize the whole thing – yikes!!

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Well wow – thanks, that’s quite the compliment. I had to look him up and found this interview with Rick Beato – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERXUMh1S2ws

Fun watching a guy struggling to play the riffs he same up with himself.

Have to add some sting songs to the ‘learn list’!

Hope you have a great week ahead!