[DiscostewLA]

Sounds great – the fingerpicking is really nice.

[DiscostewLA]

Welcome to TAC! I was in the same boat about 6 months ago. TAC has been great. The community is awesome and Tony’s teaching style and personality help keep me engaged and optimistic. Rock on!

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[DiscostewLA]

I went on Meetup.com and looked for some guitar meetups and found a few in my area. They aren’t TAC related but I’m hoping to go to my first one this weekend. I’m trying to move the needle on the ‘Play with others’ section of my TAC journal!!

[DiscostewLA]

Great playing – really clean (as others have said). Thanks for posting! Nice looking studio, too!🤘

[DiscostewLA]

Hey – me again. Just wanted to post some of the videos I used as resources when I was trying to figure out where to put my stubby thumb on the neck. You may have come across these in your own research but just in case – I’m not sure if I can post YT video links here but I’ll try. I thought these had some good insights. Distill what you will. Then drink it. 🙂

Is this the perfect thumb position (Paul Davids)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRtJQ99IBCA&t=93s

Guitar Thumb Position – Justin Guitar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQuHqY83mD0

Guitar Compass Thumb Placement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2tlZr9ZXjU

“Tomas Michaud” – Is There a “Best” Thumb Pisition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rLI3EtTy8o

Rock on!

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[DiscostewLA]

Hi there – I’m no expert nor a doctor, but from what I’ve read/heard/watched what matters most is that you are keeping your wrist at a good angle and position. I have kind of a stubby thumb so I’ve never done the ‘reach over’ for chords and just work hard on my barre chords to make up for my anatomy. My thumb sits basically in the middle of the neck and I try to keep it pointing up towards the sky but sometimes it drifts to pointing towards the headstock. If you have a long thumb and long hand – it probably doesn’t matter much where you have it as long as it’s allowing for your wrist to be in a good position and for you to be comfortable playing!

• This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by  DiscostewLA.

[DiscostewLA]

You are awesome. Rock on! 🤘

[DiscostewLA]

Nice studio and lovely playing. :). Thanks for sharing the details about your rig setup too, super helpful! Do you use a DI box at all or just your 2i2?

[DiscostewLA]

If you really love the guitar keep on working on finger stretches and you’ll get there. You might want to see if your guitar is a long scale (~25.4″) or a short scale (~23.9″). If it’s a long scale, you might go to a guitar store and ask to try out a short scale guitar which will have the frets slightly closer together but will still be a full size guitar.

I would also STRONGLY suggest checking out a Taylor GS Mini (again – check out a guitar store and play as many different models that you can). I just got one and I absolutely love it. I think it would be a great guitar for anyone, and especially folks with smaller hands and frames.

Good luck and rock on!

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[DiscostewLA]

Yeah it’s super annoying, they should at least let you go back a rolling 4 weeks or something instead of just removing access when the month turns over. I do a couple of things. I ‘like’ them – but I now have a bunch of liked lessons and have no idea what they actually are from the names. So what I started doing is downloading the tab and renaming it (like adding ‘Scale-GM’ to the front, or ‘Cool bluesy lick’, or’ john mayer slappy thing’) so I can remember what it was I liked about it. Then I save all those tabs in a folder on my computer and can pop them up. And if I liked it in TAC I can go find it and listen to it also, but most of the time I just use the tab that I saved.

[DiscostewLA]

Rockin! Thanks so much for posting this. You’re inspiring!

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[DiscostewLA]

Thanks Loraine! I learned it from this JustinGuitar vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC7yFGkELUw&t=26s

[DiscostewLA]

FYI I went to my first meetup this weekend. Only one other person showed up (the organizer) but it was cool to try and play with someone else for a number of reasons. Lots of social learning and musical learning how to follow someone else, how to find the rhythm of a strumming pattern while muting, etc. etc. Also – I finally learned the main part of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. I really love that one of the spokes on the TAC Journal wheel is playing with others. It’s so important even though it’s hard to put myself out there and I definitely wouldn’t do it if not for the push from Tony and the being on the TAC journey.

[DiscostewLA]

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[DiscostewLA]

Thanks so much, rock on!🤘