[the-old-coach]

Nice job Loraine! (indeed– it was a GREAT time to grow up!!!!)

the old coach

[the-old-coach]

JennyMc-

I print them off, label them by month & year, and keep them all in a 3-ring binder. Tricky at the very end of the month to make sure I get the last couple of lessons either printed or favoritized before the next month’s start.

If printed, I can practice withOUT my laptop if I want.

I also open the 3-ring to a completely random page- and work on THAT lesson for ~5 minutes every day…… you never know WHAT you’re gonna get! Kinda fun.

Congrats on your progress- remember to keep it fun.

the old coach

[the-old-coach]

Again– thank you for the nice comments!

I actually think I like the “other” video better– “Maybe– my first video”- (it’s “farther down” in this “Play for Us” section of the Forum).

They are the same tune- but slightly different. The “Maybe…” one is better. Check it out!

Thanks to ALL who were patient thru this whole train-wreck.

Note/ question– Does anyone else find it a little harder to play “when the camera is rollin’?” I’m sure this is something that gets better with experience.

Thanks again to all.

the old coach

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Thank you all for the nice comments. I has been quite the battle– for me– to do something that comes easily to most of you.

Maybe my “learning-curve”– (kind-of a dumpster-fire, really)– will help someone else.

Thanks again– the coach

[the-old-coach]

Well……….. I made the mistake of “trying it” again today… I never learn………

I’m the mole in Whack-a-Mole. Just when I try to stick my head out……… hoping………. WHACK.

Again, I really appreciate all the help & advice— I just canNOT seem to make it work. And– I — take full responsibility for that.

Who’da thunk😜 it’d be much easier to learn & play guitar for an average of an-hour-and-a-half EVERY day, than to make and post a damn 30-second video.

“Over & Out” on this mess.

the coach

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Tried it again this AM, with a fresh and better attitude, using (what I thought was) the suggestion PhilB said. It wasn’t pink this time- but it was a whole pile of chicken scratch— letters, numbers, symbols, etc— with no way to open any video.

Again, I am very respectful of our Forum and all of you TAC members- and sorry about all this confusion. I’m very thankful for all the nice comments and help, but feel like I’m trashing things in this thread. What a mess, huh?😕

There are many things I wish I could do—- including post a video, golf my age, and fly.

But I remember one of my old line-crew foremen once told me- “Wish in one hand, and crap in the other….. See which one gets full faster”.

Applying this to me posting a video— I think I have found my “bridge too far”.

The white flag is out until I can regroup.

Thanks for all your patience.

the coach

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I quit. Sorry about all of this.

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I don’t give up easy….. so just for the heck of it, I tried one…. last…. time…. to get the video’s “link” onto a post in here.

And it WORKED. I clicked on the (now)-highlighted video-link-thing, and it came on, and I watched it– right here in the TAC Forum, right here in my post!… (Just like normal!)…. Don’t ask me how or why, but it worked. And I could “highlight” it just fine– but all the while, the whole post was still in a PINK box.

Anyway, so, on purpose, I went all the way back thru the “Forums” process- (just to see if it was accessible for someone just “walking up”, I scrolled down to where the post should’ve been— and— again— like yesterday— POOF, gone.

Maybe there’s something in the “pink-post” that’s messing things up. Any thoughts on that?- Anybody seen that?

I’m gonna walk away for now- because I can’t afford a new laptop right….. I give up.

theoldcoach

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Well- that didn’t work. The whole post turned PINK(?), and the “link”- (I think that’s what it is)- wouldn’t “highlight” (so that I could watch it).

I really am sorry for looking like such a d*mb*ss with all this. I’ll try again at some time- and I really appreciate all the help, advice, and patience. I’m SURE the problem is with my own inabilities- (like THAT’S a surprise🙃).

Signed– D.A.- (see above)- computer-illiterate, guitar hack

[the-old-coach]

That was weird. I posted a short video right in here- watched it- (right in here)- posted a second video, came back “in” to see if it made it “in” also…….. and they are BOTH…..GONE. Poof! I don’t know if I did something wrong or not– but it’s wearin’ me out. Will try again some time in the future. Sorry about all this. theoldcoach

[the-old-coach]

I dunno- maybe that’ll work.

[the-old-coach]

Phil-

I’ll try & figure out how to do what you said here. My laptop & I are not speaking because of all this. Apparently, they are not meant to fly.

Maybe I can try tomorrow(?). Thanks much-ly.

the coach

[the-old-coach]

I’m humming that along with the song- (I think it’s called)- “Cat Scratch Fever”, with those words in it🙂. Maybe I’ll give posting it a try again sometime today if I get the chance- no promises… that it gets posted– (or that it’s any good)…..

the coach

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Cadgirl-

Thank you for assuming that — I’m— not the problem in my efforts to post a video.

Videos get posted all the time in here- (and I LOVE watching them), seemingly without issue. Logic points back at -ME- as the problem. And I’m frustrated about it, but also in a way OK with it.

I think my ability to not be able to post is likely to be a “you don’t know what you don’t know” thing. I’m missing something in the process somehow- but I don’t know WHAT.

If I’m doing something wrong- I can fix that…….. but I don’t know what to fix if I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.

I have the baggage of being REALLY not computer-smart. I whole-heartedly give many thanks to the great folks in here to offer the steps I need to follow- trouble is, for the most part, I don’t understand them much.

I’ll keep pokin’ around….. I’ll get it figured out……. If I accidently DO post a video– I really, REALLY hope I remember(ed) how I did it🙃.

Thanks again for all the help and kind words!

mark the old coach

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