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There was some lovely creative stuff in there. Some really sweet spots where you slid from one note to another gives a great smooth feel to moving along the fretboard. This feels like a real step forward to me. Keep it up! 🤟😎🎸

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Hi there. Like you I thought I’d sign up for the Fretboard Wizard and found that it wasn’t available but at the January 90 Day Progress party Tony announced that the Fretboard Wizard 2.0 version will most likely be released in the summer, possibly June. It didn’t seem likely that they would release the old version ahead of it. So I’m planning to wait for that. It’ll be plastered all over the site and probably on Acoustic Tuesday show too. Tony was saying it has been updated because of feedback from participants over the years and anyone with the old course will get the upgrade for free.

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Hi there @kdmathis and @butterfly and I echo everyone’s welcome to TAC but I think you are entering the danger zone just now. Make it through the second 30 days and you will be walking on air. I only started in April, thoroughly enjoyed the 30 day challenge, did the 6 extra chords course (really struggled with the last one) then started floundering around a bit. Dipped into a few courses but didn’t feel ‘good enough’ to do the daily challenges. So wrong! You don’t have to be good enough, in fact that’s the whole point. So take on board the excellent advice above and aim for consistency and that 10 mins a day (whatever days you can).

After 9 months I now can’t walk past my guitar without picking it up and playing. I do the challenges during the week (manage about 40-50% of them at x1 speed, but give them all a try) then at weekends I just play for pleasure, write a tune or learn a song I like by searching for a YouTube tutorial and this helps me put the techniques Tony teaches into practice. That works for me, may be different for you. I post 1 or 2 tunes each month on the Play for Us forum, more to track my own progress than anything. I quite literally have made more progress in 9 months than the last 40 years of playing the same old 5 or 6 chords (and then gaps of years without playing anything). In fact I have felt so confident I will now become a guitarist that I have bought 2 new guitars this year! Check out what everyone posts on Play for Us and you’ll see many of us making ‘mistakes’ but pushing forward anyway because going outside your comfort zone is what brings progress. Good luck and you’ve already made the most important step… You’re here! Keep on rockin’ 🤟😎🎸

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There are some really lovely slides and runs in this improv. Your guitar tone is also really nice. Are you running it through some effects? Great work. 🤘😎🎸

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Sounds absolutely wonderful. Beautiful texture to the guitar line and I’ve got say the backing vox are stunning too. They just compliment the song and the main vocal without overwhelming it. Only heard it on my phone, which is not exactly great sound, so can’t wait to listen on my laptop. Great job. 🤘😎🎸

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That is the sound of a poet and musical storyteller in action. So much to love about this song and you are so right… I “wouldn’t have it any other way” either. What a great start to lighten up a dreary Monday morning! 🤟😎🎸

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Hi there and thanks @Ted_D – lots of links with the airfields here in Eastern England it seems! But yes as for DADGAD I’m really interested in any more progressions you could let me know about. This really is a very popular tuning among my folk musician friends here and so I thought I’d give it a whirl. I really enjoy the open nature of this tuning. There’s no third in the the tuning like with Drop D so you can take it major or minor really easily. I also like the way you can get lots of ringing strings from the open tuning. In particular with this tune I was battering the low D string to give a bass drone. 🤘😎🎸

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Thanks so much. It was great fun working it out.

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I know @MikeGaurnier – sounds so daft now to think I couldn’t do the daily challenges for fear of not being good enough but that is genuinely how I felt at the time. Still I’m way past all that self doubt now and loving it!

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No problem. Hope you have fun with it. Also here’s a forum tip. If you want to post a thanks to someone on the forum and for them to get notified you can either reply to their specific message to you, or you can write a single message at the end of the chat (like you did) but pop an @ sign with their handle after eg @moonhare and in both cases they will get a notification alert. Otherwise they won’t know you thanked them as the reply only gets notified to the original person that actually posted it, ie you! Took me ages to work that out! 🤟😎🎸

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Hey there. Thanks for those comments. It’s amazing how an idea can get away from you once it’s lodged in there so thanks for setting my ‘mind hares’ running! This is an exercise in spirit over accuracy. I know my flat-picking still has a way to go but this pushed to a new place for me and I just had a blast writing and playing it.

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Yes I’m loving it although I’m a real noob on electric. Currently in the middle of programming a virtual effects rack in Gig Performer so I have access to all the sounds I need.🤘😎🎸

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Spot on! Not sure if it’s sad to have matching acoustic and electric guitars but I love both of them. 🤘😎🎸

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I’m just hooked on picking up that guitar every day now and although my accuracy is still pretty janky, I’m actually starting to ‘feel’ the playing now in a way I haven’t for 41 years! Wish we’d had the internet when I was 20.

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Thanks @Loraine . To be honest I wouldn’t have got anywhere close to enjoying guitar without the TAC family. 41 years of absolutely no progress completely transformed by the last 9 months. Thank you for your support and comments right from the start. 🤟😎🎸