[mpmoran0315]

Hi Lorraine,

Sorry you are having to deal with this, I also have peripheral neuropathy but it impacts my feet more than my hands. However, as a post op program of physical therapy for a serious spinal condition, I also worked with an occupational therapist that provided a series of exercises designed to re-sensitize my hands and fingers, and it helped. My hands/fingers are not my main issue, but I also looked at my guitar playing as also helping along with the exercises. I think if you at least follow Tony’s 10 mins a day approach, even on the bad days, you will find some improvement over time. Then if you are feeling ok, you can go beyond the ten minutes.

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I haven’t seen an update on this, so I’ll add this in case not everyone is aware. I had a dormant subscription to the fretboard wizard that I had not activated , but when I logged in for the first time in weeks I was offered the new and improved version of FBW! Very cool. So I decided to jump in and get back on track by following the wizard! If I understand correctly, FBW is now part of membership, no additional fee required, I don’t think it was offered just because I had the previous un-activated subscription.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by  mpmoran0315.

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I know that feeling of just hanging on, and thought also if it was worth keeping the monthly deduction going. But decided to try commiting more to these lessons about six months ago and have remained pretty consistent. I really enjoyed the alternate tuning lessons and am finishing up the 12 bar blues challenge and also trying to hit the daily challenges a couple times a week. Hard to say how much I have improved, but hopefully that is happening

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Great job @RealKurt, miss hearing you in person at FWS jams. Someday it will happen again. In the past year or two I have become a big Jason Isbell fan, even picked up vinyl of “The Nashville Sound”. Really like Cumberland Gap and White Man’s World from the LP. Coincidentally both are A minor based songs, which is a favorite chord. Great songwriter, several other great tracks on the LP as well.

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Thanks all for the encouragement. @jdtiger I also am rarely up to full tempo. I seem to do best right now with the tab and a metronome starting at 80 bpm and then moving up to 100 and 120 if comfortable at 100, but usually stay at 100. I find it easier than matching up with the video right now.

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I would agree with the consensus to play the lesson through at least ten minutes and then if you get through it once or more go ahead and mark it complete so you can just jump right in the next day to a new lesson. In my first go round I was not as quick to mark a lesson complete, but in reading the comments and seeing how it is going by completing the lesson at whatever speed I can attain, I think this is a better approach for me.

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Hi Carol, nice to see your routine, it works for you! Look forward to jamming again sometime. I am focusing again on TAC after not getting into it much recently, so I hope to continue to improve.

Take care,

Mike

[mpmoran0315]

Thanks for the encouragement.

[mpmoran0315]

Will do…

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Thanks

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No , have not heard of them. Thanks for the encouragement.

[mpmoran0315]

Dom, you are the man! The TAC east aka Friends with Strings is what kept me going with TAC even when I was not active on the web site. So I am sure Tony and the gang understand the value of the jam group and will facilitate the groups when the opportunity is there again, and it will work with the new site; even if there is no official jam club page.