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I just lost my streak on Monday. I was logged in, I accessed the daily challenge but the counter must not have advanced. I’ve been very meticulous about watching the number increase every day for 294 days but on day 295 I must have slipped up. I’ve reached out to support and asked them to restore it, I’m here every day and they know that. I’m on the site 3 times a day or more. Hoping I get it restored, it sucks to see single digits in your current streak when you’re so used to 3!
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Welcome @jfoltz9535aol-com .
What Matt said is good advice, don’t get hung up on doing stuff perfectly. The sooner you bury your inner perfectionist the better. And things are frequently repeated anyways, every skill, move, technique shows up again so all you want to do is try it and do your best. You’re going to get more shots at them!
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If you just need a C to be able to play a certain song, you can often sub in the Cadd9. It’s another voicing that will often work. And if your fretting the G easily then the Cadd9 is super easy for you, you just lower the index and ring fingers by one string.
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@gregeaganymail-com I don’t know you but I’m quite sure your hand is big enough to form a G chord. If you are older than 9 and don’t have some kind of growth deficiency I can almost guarantee it.
I have linked to an article that is useful, rather than to just go on about it. My hands aren’t small so I can’t speak from experience, just second hand knowledge. But there is always a way.
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You need to be very loose while playing. Choppiness comes from digging into the strings and to get a nice sound you really just brush or lightly stroke the strings.
First hold the pick loosely in your fingers
Second move your hand uniformly up and down.
To visualize how to do this: let your hand hang down and pretend you are shaking water off of it. That’s the motion you are after. When playing rhythm your hand always moves up and down, the strum patterns indicate times when you miss the strings either going up or down, the motion doesn’t change.
a common pattern is:
Down – MISS – Down – MISS – MISS – Up – Down – Up
Your hand just goes up and down moving like a metronome and selectively hits strings which results in rhythm. Every time there’s a miss it’s an 8th note pause. Above there are 2 misses in a row on the 3 and the AND of 3 so full quarter note pause. It’s not easy to learn this, takes a good deal of rehearsing but there are apps that are helpful. Since this is often not explained when you pull up TABs and strumming patterns, many people stop moving during these pauses, the slowing and speeding up of the hand will cause jerkiness or choppiness as you called it.
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No issues here. Can you get to the lesson and not get it to play? Or are you not even getting to where you can launch it?
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On Thursday’s Rhythm Guitar and Friday’s Chord Transition Challenges you will have chord charts:
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Chord shapes are not always on the TAB sheets every week. This has been pointed out over and over again and isn’t going to get corrected. I made my own Hotel California chord charts when I started in TAC
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It got restored! Thank goodness! I’m just going through some crazy stuff with my family at the moment. This cheered me up a bunch!
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Love the Beatles, not because they were the best musicians ever, although they were all really good. Paul could play just about anything (guitar, bass, drums, piano, and…) and played guitar right or left handed, he could switch to show his right handed buddy John stuff.
Their song writing acumen was other worldly, and they pioneered the whole rock group thing, all the acts that followed them were largely huge fans that saw what was possible.
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@madctyjackgmail-com you are most welcome! Please don’t be sorry, I apologize to you for misleading you.
Was saying that in the context of “it isn’t getting fixed by the content creators since it’s been mentioned many times over past years. It was not in the sense that you should have seen it, I am sorry if my replies seemed to imply that. It would be nearly impossible for you see, even by searching the forum the likelihood of you finding this is near zero.
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Yes! The lyrics do take a lot of effort, it was so easy when we were kids to memorize them but now it’s sure hard to get them down. I have a lot from my youth in memory but most of those I can’t play yet. I did receive a Beatles guitar book for my birthday and there are quite a few of songs in there where I remember most of the words that I learned about 60 years ago
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I know Tony pretty well from watching the Challenges videos for 2 full years now. Once you have seen him that much, all the times he talks off topic and on the topic, you get a much bigger picture perspective.
He promotes individuality, doing things your way and specifies when to follow him exactly. That doesn’t mean your way will always be good, you may well come around to doing it the way Tony showed you. But, you will learn something from trying it your own way so it’s rarely going to be all bad.
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The goal is to get to the point where you don’t have to learn songs anymore, like my son in law who just spent the day with us on the 4th of July, he is able to play just sight reading the chords. (He could probably do it with only the notes in music notation)
We were pulling up songs on our phones and he could play and sing just from the chords and the memory of the song. It’s astounding, he makes it look so easy! He played dozens of songs on my guitar that day, if I practiced one of them all day I wouldn’t be able to play it as well as he played each one. Guitar isn’t even his major instrument – or piano but he’s probably even better on the piano.
He is extremely musical, has a music degree from Moody Bible in Chicago and he majored in voice. He was going to become a professional singer – opera, operetta, musicals but he took a very different path instead. He’s the music director at the Church I have been attending since we moved up here to Jacksonville.