petelanger
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Hi @timothyaroggeoutlook-com and welcome! TAC is indeed very cleverly designed. You’ve done well to come to the forum, lots of nuggets here! Keep on boogey-in’ !
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This clip was taken directly from today’s Daily Challenge. You might not be in the Daily’s yet since you are new to TAC. But Tony addresses the expectations issue that all new players face.
I was right there when I started just over 2 years ago, thinking I would have a playlist of a few dozen songs within a year. Reality sets in and you discover the hard truth that this C chord is kicking my butt and I’m not gonna learn it by sundown! I got discouraged early on, I had pretty much quit 3 months later when I found TAC.
Today I have most of the essential chords under my fingers and while I’m still struggling with some of the barre chords, there isn’t one that scares me. I’m getting there. Today’s challenge took me about 5 minutes to be able to play, 2 years ago I could have spent a week and not been able to play the first line.
It will come, you are improving even though you don’t see it. In our struggles is when we are learning the most. Suddenly it’s going to surprise you that you can do it; but only if you continue!
Enjoy your journey! I assure you I had many, many thuds on mine.
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Interesting!
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Personally I wouldn’t spend $200, when you can download a free App. I have and old phone on my desk that I use to record sessions. It also has the Fender app on it with whole array of tools like metronome, tuner, chord finder, If I was to have my heart set on a mechanical metronome I would check thrift stores and estate sales.
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When I first produced a clear F chord my hand looked like this:
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It’s going to be a journey for milestones such as this mini barre and many other barre chords. Most of us just aren’t going to be able to do this during an evening of trials. It’s going to in the order of many months, perhaps double digit months. But you can still play Old Man, just leave out the barre and fret the B string. Try not to strum the high E or mute the E if you can manage it. (If you strum the high E then you’re playing an F major7 which works at times but not always)
For the first 3 months in the TAC program, I used one of those 2 options. You may be able to rock your index finger so that the E string is muted, playing just 3 strings.
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It took months of trying and I still wasn’t able to transition to it, because I had adjust my fingers for at least 5 seconds before all the muting was cleared up. In the years since I can form the F mini in a much more relaxed manner (without the pretzely death grip). Over time you learn the best position of you index finger near the fret wire, how much pressure is required on each finger, how you have to bring your elbow close into your body. And your brain knows how to do all these things simultaneously much more quickly so you can do it during last weeks’ challenges (Old Man benchmark).
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This reply was modified 7 months ago by petelanger.
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There is a mistake above that I wanted to correct:
I wrote: “otherwise the pattern would shift on the B string since it’s tuned to a 4th instead of a fifth.”
In standard (EADGBE) tuning each string is tuned to the fourth above the previous string, with the exception of the B string that is only the 3rd (G-A-B) above the G. The high E is the fourth (B-C-D-E) again.
I used the wrong interval and also the wrong article. I said “a” fourth which could be interpreted as 1/4th. It isn’t that, it’s not a fraction but indicates order as notes come after each other in a specific order: A is the fourth note after E.
On the guitar each string is 1/2 of an octave higher than the previous string.
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Great to hear @Bayvu2 !
Wish you a continued smooth recovery!
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Jorge, I have dished out my share of criticism to TAC but I still think it’s the best darn learning program ever in any field. I’ve studied all kinds of things online in the past 30 years and I have not seen anything like it. It’s even more amazing because it’s hardly interactive. Tony rarely get’s on here, the interaction is primarily between students, while the meat and potatoes of the curriculum are prerecorded videos.
Beyond that I have learned that helping others often times tends to help me as well.
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Welcome to the TAC forum @rhayes73aol-com
I know there must be a whole legion of TACers who never visit the forums. Why? I guess they don’t know about it. It’s a shame, really. Lot’s of great info and help to be found here! -
I really desire to turn this around and make Wednesdays as good or better than the rest of the week. Reading this thread again inspired me and it also jogged my memory so that I recalled having some arrows in my quiver that ought to help.
1. Getting more familiar with the scales is a start and that’s naturally going to happen the more often they come around.
2. Get back into the ear training that I started in February and for some reason put on the shelf. Perfect pitch is very rare but most anyone can learn relative pitch. I need to keep developing that muscle.
3. A good solo is just as much about good rhythm as it is about pleasing notes. I need to work on applying rhythmic patterns when I’m doing improv.
That’s all I’ve got right now.
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@Braden , what a perfect perspective! Thanks for that, you rock, Dude!