N-lightMike
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Yeah @markeads , @Guy_H and @Loraine have given you great advice. Here’s my 2 cents.
Learn the natural notes on the low E string. Forget the sharps/flats. Just get the E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E notes down. And don’t even worry about repeating and going past the 12th fret. That’s only 8 notes and they are in alphabetical order. You’ll just have to remember where 2 notes are together without a sharp/flat note in-between. And there are only 2 of those. E and F and B and C. That’s it. Being able to “see” the notes on the low E string is the “key” to unlocking the rest of the fretboard. Start there.
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Yeah, Daniel, @Loraine is right. That’s the thing to do. I’ll flag @VictoriaTACTeam .
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Yeah, in the previous manifestation of TAC, I had all 4 badges available. But I’m not familiar with the arrangement that came before me. I know it had changed just a few months before I joined. As I understand it, TAC when through a number of transformations before I came along. This last one is the only one I have seen. I believe they are done morphing and have become the butterfly.
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Wow, @punder , I’ve been on TAC for 2 1/2 years and actively trying to understand/explain Tony’s method the whole time. I don’t think you are being sarcastic at all. That is brilliant. This is the simplest way to understand Tony’s method.
Don’t Think. Just play. And enjoy. Every day.
Thank you for sharing your take on this. I love it.
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The nylon have far less tension than any of the steel strings @Cadgirl . That’s why they say never put steel stings on a nylon string guitar. If the guitar was built for nylon strings, it simply doesn’t have enough bracing to withstand the steel strings.
Any vise versa, it can be impossible to loosen the neck enough to get the action right if you put nylon strings on a steel string guitar. That’s way the make “high tension” nylon strings. Without enough tension, the action will be so low you get too much buzzing.
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Hey Darren @Moonhare
Thanks for including your approach. This method will work well now, but some of us who have been around for awhile wouldn’t have thought to do it this way. Why? Well, it used to be that if you have all the lessons for the month marked complete, your profile pic would be put on the dart board and get the chance to win a guitar… every month. Since that is no longer happening, the “mark complete” can be used in a different way, such as how you have explained.
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I am loving how many people have benefited from this one question. Thank you again for asking the question @steve48 . It just shows how this community works. If you have a question, just remember there will always be others who wonder about the same thing. Now, we have to wonder how many other people have benefited who haven’t left a comment to let us know they were benefited?
You are so welcome @Jimso . I don’t know which I like better. All the help I’ve gotten from TAC or all the help I’ve been able to give to other TAC members.
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I am so glad I could help @better_play_good
You have outlined the right and wrong process in a very clear way when you mention becoming frustrated as opposed to enjoying your guitar journey and your lessons. We can go about our guitar journey in anyway we want… as long as we enjoy it. Any habit or attitude that causes frustration must be changed and/or dumped.
So, don’t just rock on… rock on happily. 😋
MG 😀
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Oh, I never heard that mnemonic. (Ok, so how do you get that pronunciation out of that spelling?) That’s one of those things that is so foundational and used so often that I never needed a mnemonic to remember it. But of course, this only applies in C major (I don’t even want to use the word “key” as so many people think there are more than 12 keys. There’s not. It’s misunderstanding that leads to that belief. What amazes me is that even the music schools and departments teach that misleading info.) So the more useful thing to remember is W, W, H, W, W, W, H because that will give you the proper 7 notes no matter what note you start on. And that is a major scale, the mode that is the “key” to all the other 6 modes and is the reference for the formulas of all the other modes.
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