[petelanger]

Pictures are good, I see what you mean. That is way high! I already understood this when you said 4mm at the 12th fret. Sorry I got your Zager and Taylor confused when you mentioned the Zager.

Do you still have buzzing? Because I’m not seeing where you could. It looks to me like you could start by tightening the truss rod to take out some of that high action.

[petelanger]

Don’t start filing on your Zager guitar frets! It’s most likely much to valuable to tinker with if you don’t know what your doing.

I don’t understand what you mean here:

this puppy needs more relief/bow, but that would give it a higher action, and it’s high enough that I have to press harder than on my Zager parlor. What it looks like to me is that the saddle/bridge was set too high so the strings go from a next to nothing point at the nut to 4-5mm at the 12th fret. What would happen if I filed down the lower fret bars (they stick up a fair amount) just enough to give more relief at the nut end? Or is that a no-no?

the action is high but you’re wanting to file frets, this doesn’t add up in my head.

Edit: Now that I’ve thought about it some more I think I understand. You have buzzing near the nut but at the same time there is high action at the 12th fret. Now it makes sense. Sorry, I was not seeing it clearly. This is fixable, probably adjust the nut to raise the strings just a tad there and lower the action by adjusting the truss rod. Could possibly need to lower a bit at the saddle. I actually did all these things to my Donner guitar and turned it from unplayable into something that really sits well with me. A bit of buzz has returned on the low E string, I probably goofed a bit when I filed the slot for that string and set it a little too low. Now with the summer humidity back things changed enough so that minimal clearance is not quite enough anymore.

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[petelanger]

Regarding the tuning pegs: they aren’t that hard to change out, a set of can be purchased for 15 – 40 bucks on Amazon. But maybe you could donate the guitar to the Guitars4vets or a similar organization. I’m sure somebody would appreciate it.

[petelanger]

Tuning pegs aren’t that hard to change out, a set of can be purchased for 15 – 40 bucks on Amazon. But maybe you could donate the guitar to the Guitars4vets or a similar organization. I’m sure somebody would appreciate it.

Truss rod adjustments are made exactly for the purpose of realigning the neck. You might want to get someone to help you if you are not too familiar with using hand tools. You will need either a hex key or a nut driver. The truss rod runs through the neck underneath the fretboard, therefore tightening it will make it bow backwards and loosening it will make it go forward along with the string tension. Based on how you described the situation, it sounds like you want take relief out of the neck by tightening the truss rod which means turning the nut clockwise. Don’t get too nervous about it, if you turn the wrong way you can just turn it back again.

Tony has a video on the subject: https://youtu.be/KFlIFN8oPDw

[petelanger]

Congrats on your third TACiversary Moose! I’ve got my second coming up in 2 weeks, and very much still a beginner, but there’s no going back to not being a player! We’re on this journey for good!

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I occasionally get this redirect but always can get back in on the next attempt. It’s never continuously kept me out. I don’t have a Mac, never have owned one. All my devices can connect: Windows 11, Androids and Linux.

[petelanger]

Awesome song and great back story!

[petelanger]

@FrancisR I agree with you.

The notes on the TAB are natural F notes, same with the musical notation. I have no clue why they are sharpened in the Treble Clef. If they were actually sharps you would have to play A9 and B7 instead of A8 and B6, and the notes would have to be raised as well.

I don’t have the FB Wizard course so I am not sure what could be going on.

[petelanger]

But if your action is high, then the strings shouldn’t be anywhere near your frets so I’m a little confused.

[petelanger]

In that case you may need to lower the bridge. I did this with my Donner. I replaced the nut and the bridge with new units made from bone. I’m not sure what they were originally. It was a fair amount of work, especially fabricating the nut with all the slots with the proper depth and width. The bridge was pretty straightforward. I just had to file it down on each side.

Filing frets is not that simple, it’s easy to do a lot of damage. I filed mine but I had to fabricate a bunch of tools to do it safely.

[petelanger]

@Pinski announced he “made the tough decision to not renew this year and to move on to pursue new challenges”.

[petelanger]

That’s the way, @David2458 .

Just look for little nuggets you can take away from each Challenge (or lesson if you’re not in the Daily Challenges yet). I remember when I started it was the smallest of things. I could only do one or 2 measures in the time I gave myself. Then Thursday would come around and I couldn’t even get started. I would go back and repeat Monday – Wednesday, try to get a little further than I had. I would keep doing that through the weekend and then start the next week’s challenges. It didn’t take long until I could go through the whole week and at least play everything, if only at .5 speed and with a lot of mistakes. But always try to find some aspect that went well. There almost always is something if you give it your best effort for at least 10 -15 minutes, but you might not see it in the moment. It might come to you as your repeating on Saturday or Sunday that “oh my goodness, that little section there is sounding quite musical”. Or “I can remember the first 5 bars of that lick, I still make mistakes but I know what I should be doing”

[petelanger]

I understand your frustration @Skyman911 for a while I felt abandonment too. Then I realized 2 things:

1. Like you said, its “Still the best online course though”
2. Tony isn’t just laying back and getting enriched by TAC, he is an accomplished artist. You can look him up. I don’t know what projects he’s involved in right now but I’m sure he’s keeping busy. And he’s raising kids which is the most important job in the world. TAC is running fine without his daily involvement.

And he will step in occasionally in the forum like he did earlier this year. The site is still slow, but I don’t let it get me down. I just do stuff while pages are loading.

[petelanger]

And personally I don’t mind the repeats at all, there’s plenty of sites and youtubers who teach individual songs. They don’t give you what TAC brings, but I’ve had fun with those songs outside of TAC and I continue to play them. Lauren Bateman does an awesome job teaching songs that are freely available, then there’s a handful of others that I follow.

[petelanger]

I didn’t mention @jumpinjeff who has been here 11 years now.