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yes, reframing those negative thoughts is what you have to do continuously. Turn what you perceive to be a failure or loss, into a gain – no matter how small.
Like Tony says: “I showed up today”
– “I managed to do 2 of the 12 measures”
– “I tried very hard” (it didn’t sound like Tony but progress was made, it will be better next time!).
Just remember, the learning happens when you struggle! If you think about it, it’s pretty obvious. If Tony shows you something in the video and then you pick up your guitar and immediately repeat it back, what does that tell you? It tells you that you already had the skills to do that thing!
If it takes a bit of time, let’s say 20 minutes, then it comes along well you learned a little bit.
If it takes longer and you’re still not getting it right – well you still learned, probably learned more than in the first 2 scenarios, but it didn’t end in total dominance over the challenge. But there is growth that will unveil itself to you later on, could be in another challenge or the exact same skill down the road.
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I just wanted to respond to the “old folk songs with twangy voices and fast picking banjos” reference. I hope you weren’t generalizing the whole catalog of songs in the daily challenge rotation. I just wanted to make it clear to anyone who hasn’t been in the program for a full year that there is quite a lot of variety and not very much twangy stuff, but there is an emphasis on blues because of the blues’ awesomeness and their value for teaching guitar.
Hotel Calif, for example is not public domain, and there are countless other songs protected by copyright in the collection. Each one meets a purpose, and while some are not everyone’s choice genre/artist, I can think of a few that I would never sing around my family (due to the lyrics), there aren’t any banjo tunes and I find it quite ingenious how there can be so many little lessons in each selection.
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Yeah, you just do it in your head: either don’t start until he reaches 3 or 1 whatever or else you can speed up the video up to 2x normal. Whatever works for you. It’s not all fancy bells and whistles here.
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Very common issue for all new players. Sorry I answered this and realized I completely glossed over the part about an injured finger. I will change my response here since it’s different when you have a shortened index finger.
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You could try to learn the 3 finger G using the pinky on the high E, the ring on the low E and the middle on the A string. There are a lot of situations where this fingering is useful. You may find doing this very difficult at first, I know I did! But after time it begins to feel more natural and now I have no trouble at all doing it.
I hope you can figure out some way to make use of your index finger, for now this shape might be a work around that will work in some transitions, but not ideal for all, I know.
Consider also that these open chords you are now learning (G, A, C, D, E, etc), that everyone typically learns in the beginning, are just shapes and one of many ways to represent a chord. There is always another way, people without arms have learned to play the guitar with their feet!
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The way Tony describes it it’s a little misleading and many have not understood it, I was there once too. It’s quite simply the settings gear allows you to choose between 0.5x and 2x speed. Yeah, I know, it’s a little disappointing when you learn this.
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Those were Nov 3rd and 4th so still accessible. We can only go back 6 weeks without saved links.
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Welcome @Dick43
You won’t be able to go directly to those songs through the TAC site. It is possible to favorite the challenges and make them available throughout the year but normally we only have today’s challenge and all the challenges up to 6 weeks in the past. Beyond that is officially out of reach. Those songs are bench mark songs. 2 out of the 4, the other 2 are “Ain’t No Sunshine” and “Hotel California”
We have a bench mark song every month and since there are 4 bench mark songs they rotate through and consequently repeated 3 times per year. “Old Man” will be coming up this month, the week after next. But “Wagon Wheel” will be coming around in February, with “Ain’t No Sunshine” in January.
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Yes @BarbaraM the challenges come back around at least 1x per year but many of the skills in different lessons are reintroduced much sooner so you are getting 5-10 reps per year, if not more!
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@jumpinjeff congrats on the steadfastness of your guitar journey! Slow and steady wins the race! Thank-you for the influence you have had on me over the year and a half that I’ve been on TAC. I intend to pay it forward as I stay the course here and achieve my guitar goals.
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I struggled with the C and D as well, in fact the D chord still can give me a bit of trouble especially when transitioning from a G to the D the fingers tend to get in the way of each other and it’s easy to not have good placement. All these kinds of things will gradually get better, it’s going to take time. In my case it was many months, I imagine a younger person who devotes many hours per day to it might cut that time down.
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@barbandjim24gmail-com also, if you have worked a carpenter’s hammer you understand that tapping it is not very effective. You need to drive nails by hitting them with significant velocity. On the guitar you hammer-ons will ring much more fully if you come down quickly on the string. A soft tap will not produce any sound. @jorgemac did mention to press it quickly but I thought giving you the visual of literally hammering might hit on the nail for you.
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I really want to try out a nylon string guitar. My understanding is that is one of the signature features of a classical guitar, I’m sure there are others.
I can’t justify the expense right now, especially not until I’m done with dental procedures. And we have so many things we would like to do with our house in terms of improvements, plus tree trimming on our wooded property is on the horizon.
How much does one have to spend for a decent classical guitar? I’m talking low end but not worthless.
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Thanks everyone for their input, keeping this favorited for when I’m ready to buy.
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Yes that is true @jorgemac , if you use the 4 finger g then the ring finger can anchor both the G and D chords. But if the progression is C => G => D, I’ll often use the 3 finger G where my pinky is on the high E and the ring on the low E. Now it’s clumsy going to the D chord for me.
The point is: at first you are just learning to form chords but in short order you really need to be looking at transitioning from chord to chord and depending on where you come from, there are new challenges to overcome.