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Congrats @Fletch! I didn’t even know you were a trio! Love your contributions. I’m going to learn to record at some point, not quite there yet, but you inspire me!
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Pure Gold here, the combined wisdom and caring of TAC people are staggering and heart warming!
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It’s called Tony’s Acoustic Challenge for a reason. Struggle is a good thing, it means you are being challenged. Your brain is an amazing thing, while you play through these little lessons, it’s recording so many things you don’t even realize. You are actually growing while you suck and struggle to do the challenge. Surely you were able to do certain parts, a measure here or a couple of notes there? Celebrate the things that went well and be happy that the hard parts are teaching you things.
The only thing certain is that if you give up, you stop learning. If you continue, magical things will eventually happen.
It’s up to you @jerrygriffiths389gmail-com
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I grew up in the 60’s with Elvis Presley and then the Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys, Guess Who etc. Of course Dad wasn’t a fan and would put on a station that favored Duke Ellington and the like every morning. I got exposed to Swing and Jazz the same time as Rock. By 1971 I had my own stereo in my room.
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Do the best you can, stick with it. If you show up daily it will get better. Embrace the suck! We all had to. I still suck after 2 years of playing, but I suck a lot less than in week 1!
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When I’m having a “this sucks” kind of day on my guitar I like to turn my focus to the theory side. I know it sounds a bit nuts to want to dive into what for many is torture. But I just love the back-ends of things, that nuts and bolts stuff (under the hood) that’s just how I’m wired. My specialty in Information Technology was gathering information from SQL databases and writing reports. I had to understand the relationships between tables and design queries, views and/or procedures to get the snapshot that managers wanted
I still haven’t grasped everything in music theory that I would like, not even close! I’m really still at the very beginning, but I’m learning more and more every day. Maybe in a few years I’ll be able to understand what the heck you’re talking about @jorgemac !
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Yeah, clicking on the month will not take you there, on a computer you hover and then a little box appears below to click on. I just tried it on my phone and I was having the same experience you were. Then I noticed an option to “Open in the App” this reopened Moose’s sheet in the Google Sheets app that I have on my phone. Then I was able to tap on the year, and it pops open the actual hyperlinks that move you along. So for this sheet to work you have to have the google sheets program on your device. You may have to download it onto your iPad.
Sorry, this was supposed to be a helpful tool and it’s been nothing but hurdles for you! @Moose408 made this sheet for himself and he has been so kind to share it with fellow TACers. It wasn’t designed to be a robust tool, but it’s always worked wonderfully for me, admittedly never tried it on any mobile device before.
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@Braden , thanks for your contributions. Loving the dialogue. So as you know I’m a partial Cannuck, grew up Montreal but I also an Austrian by birth and I lived in Austria for most of the 70’s. So this particular song is one you wouldn’t know since it’s by an Viennese artist named Wolfgang Ambros- the song is “Da Hofa”. I’ll try to post a little clip so you can hear the D-chord modification.
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Long finger will be an asset once they start obeying your brain. Takes time. Also there’s so many ways to play the G chord. I remember early on I had could not play a clean G and when I finally got it I realized now I have to learn all these other G shapes that I have no command of. The one I use most now is a 3 finger shape:
ring on high E3, pinky on low E3 and middle on A2, it’s known as Folk G and Tony will use it a lot in the TAC program. It’s useful because you have quick and easy transitions from other open shapes: C, E, Em, Am etc.
It’s very common to struggle with some of these shapes in the beginning. I trouble with G, C, D, even the E. Slowly you improve on this one and that one. You should practice transitioning between chords as soon as possible. That’s how music is made so make those chord changes. Getting the chord to ring clean is only a part of the picture, you have to be able to get there from other chords.
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Just poked around YT for a second and found this video about using D chord to launch all kinds of cool stuff:
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BarbaraM said: “I wasn’t allowed to listen to rock growing up”
huh? Oh my goodness, you poor soul!
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LOL!
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Oh my goodness, that’s amazing! I think you can take the week off! Haha, that’s not what you should do, there’s always things to work on but you’ve got the gist of it for sure!