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Well this thread just sort of leaped out of archives. Unfortunately @Hatteras-Jack the lifetime membership isn’t offered at this time. TAC discontinued it last year.
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Hard to pick my favorite, can I do a top ten list? LOL!
Black Magic Woman – Santana
All Around the Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix
You’re No Good – Van Halen
Pretty Woman – Van Halen
Jet Airliner – Steve Miller
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I discovered this YouTube Short today and it just blew my mind! This has to be the easiest way to start memorizing the fretboard. I spent 10 minutes and already have a pretty good handle on it.
Since we already know the G and C on the third fret (if not, now is a good time to learn them), it’s a great springboard to visualizing a large portion of real estate without a lot of memorization.
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@albert_d has delveloped a great systematic approach to develop his playlist, and the results are evident! I very much enjoyed his Christmas songs this past year.
I personally have side-burnered my song wish list, to be more accurate the list is growing because I keep thinking of new ones that I would like to play, but I am not rehearsing songs for the most part. I’m only rotating through a handful of songs because my focus is more on learning the basic skills. I’m not actually trying to perfect those songs by learning them start to finish but rather just getting my chord transitions smoother. I’ll work on the nuances of the songs later (the intro, chorus, bridge, etc). TAC is very helpful in this area, the many techniques taught can be adopted to creating your own intros and add a personal touch to a song.
Every time I have devoted extended time to a new song I found it was going to rob me of too much time and become a distraction. I have to get to a proficiency level where learning an easy to intermediate song could be accomplished in a matter of hours. Currently I am in the days to weeks range and that’s without vocals.
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If you have progressed into the Daily Challenges you can find past lessons in the left side bar. They are also accessible on the home page. There you will find left and right arrows to navigate to prior weeks, it’s a little trickier to pull up past lessons on the home page.
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Neil Young’s Old Man was only 3 weeks ago and is completely accessible, unless perhaps you haven’t entered Daily Challenges yet. If you are doing 30 Days to Play and the 5 Day Routine, then all that Daily stuff is probably not visible to you yet.
If you were already working with Old Man, go to @Moose408 ‘s Google Sheet and pull up the series there. Once you have entered the Daily Challenges, be sure to favorite Old Man and any others as you go through them.
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Thanks to @Moose408 we always have access to any TAC lesson. It doesn’t change much from year to year but just in case there are almost 3 full years worth in this google sheet:
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Welcome @Woods
Wow, did you really start only a month ago? That was great!
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Welcome @emveetgmail-com
Hello M.V! I think that this program will suit you well to get back into playing after a long pause. Many others here have done it. Don’t hesitate to ask questions here in the forum! We’re here to help. Keep us posted on your progress and celebrate your wins with us!
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I thought so as well! It was a watershed moment for me, the screen that was hiding the fretboard disintegrated and I saw the notes for the first time!
Once you have that first pattern under your fingers and etched into your brain on all strings:
G …|……|A…|……|B
C …|……|D…|……|Ethen add in the 2 notes that follow on the next fret (half step):
G …|……|A…|……|B…|C
C …|……|D…|……|E…|F
Now you have all the natural notes and filling in the accidentals (the sharps and flats in between) is a piece of cake.
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Oh my goodness, totally forgot about Mercury Blues on Fly Like an Eagle, takes me back Jorge!
Steve has a very interesting life story, he was a child protege of Les Paul. At 9 years of age he learned how to play lead from T-bone Walker. He formed his first band with his brother on bass at age 12. At was 14, they backed Jimmy Reed at LouAnn’s Bar in Dallas. He came of age in the blues clubs of Texas and Chicago and transitioning to rock in London. He really had to work his tail off to make it. During his college freshman year, he spent the Christmas break teaching his high-school buddy, William “Boz” Scaggs to play the blues!
He was a very seasoned musician when “The Joker” became a smash hit and he was finally able to take a few nights off performing.
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Good point on the A-chord, I can barely fit my 1,2 &3 fingers, for a while I experimented with 2, 3 &4. Now I prefer the barre method (avoiding the high E).
People with all sorts of limitations have overcome them and excelled as guitar players, perhaps it’s because of them that they elevated to greatness.
Les Paul, Tommy Iommi, Django Reinhardt, Joni Mitchell. There are players with no hands and I think there is one with no arms, they learned to play with their feet.
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My apologies, when I replied I thought this was another (more recent) thread on the same topic that had Moose’s link in it.
I see in fact you are approaching the same topic in 2 different threads. The link is in the other one.
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The architects of the website (idk: Tony?) designed it so you can go back 45 days
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you can favorite anything you like and have access all the time. There is your personal archive (by hearting the lesson).
I don’t know the reasons behind this but I’m sure that thought went into it because Tony applied a lot of Psychology into how he set up the entire program.
We the members are providing you a workaround; please accept it for what it is.
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Thanks @jorgemac but I’m a rookie and have learned a lot of what I know from you!
