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Not one of us tagged you @GreyBeard so there, maybe this will prompt a response out of you! Hope you had a nice weekend, I sure did!

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While you are learning the chords and rhythm you can just hum the melody until you have the lyrics memorized. I’ve made the mistake of trying to learn to play the song while reading the lyrics and this is far more difficult, because you’re not just reading but synching the words to your playing. Doing this while learning a chord sequence is extremely hard to do, especially for a beginner.

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@Moose408 I do the same thing, mostly it’s songs from my Spotify playlist that I here and go: “I really like that one, it doesn’t appear to be that hard so let me try. Normally I’ll just fool around with the song for a few hours, put it on my future songs list and it’s not too disruptive to my routine. But I have one that I really like a lot and I’m devoting too much time to it because I want to be able to play and sing it so badly. It’s a bit more advanced for my skills, all fingerstyle and it’s taken me a month to learn the intro, verse and chorus. I still have to memorize the lyrics and get some command of the quite lengthy interlude (or solo).

For the first time I’m really seeing the pitfalls of learning other people’s songs. I avoided this for 2 years almost, waiting patiently for my fingers and brain to acquire some skills. Now I’ve pivoted slightly and moved towards covering songs, and my perfectionism that I worked diligently to suppress is resurfacing because I want to sound like the original.

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It’s generally fine to adapt the lesson to what works best for you. Tony usually shows you things “as a suggestion” but do your individual thing. Occasionally he’ll want you to use the same fingering but then he’ll typically tell you that. I always try to do things his way but I’ll deviate from it if and when I want.

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Thanks, I started the day before my birthday on the 3rd, yesterday had my daughters and 6 of my grand children at the house celebrating along with extended family. It was quite an event!

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This is a highly unusual request because well:

Most people in the US have iPhones, I am like you, however, and have an Android and it is in fact a Pixel 9 Pro.

While I wouldn’t use the pip feature on my phone because I find the phone image much too small even at full screen.

On my computer I go to full screen mode on the expanded desktop, and I open the TAB on my laptop screen or else I might have it on a tablet, occasionally I’ll use my phone in a pinch.

But I did test pip just now on my phone and I did get it to work in the Chrome browser. The pip icon does not appear when my phone is held in portrait mode, I have to turn it horizontal then the pip is available. Note that this is happening in the browser and not in an App so it’s not like the video is going to snap into the corners like they would in YouTube.

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I think it very much depends on what your goals are regarding your guitar journey and where you are currently. Based on your answers I might be able to give you more specific guidance.

1. Are you a total beginner as in you have not played at all since you turned 15?
2. Where are you headed? Just for personal enjoyment, play for others , play around the campfire player, do you want to play with others.

If you have higher aspirations I believe the best option would be to switch to a left handed guitar because you will be limited playing right handed. It doesn’t mean you can’t get to be very good by adjusting your style, learning how to play chords up and down the neck on fewer strings and/or utilizing alternate tunings.

TAC focuses mainly on standard tunings although there are a number of weeks that utilize alternate tuning.

I did come across this device that you may want to check out: https://www.rock-itbarre.com/missing-digit.html

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I bought a Mandolin because I love the sound of it, but I’ve only dabbled a bit in trying to learn. I’m very focused on guitar. I don’t have fretboard wizard, so I’m not much help here.

Mandos are sort of tuned like an upside down guitar G-D-A-E so I imagine that many chord patterns are flipped (those not involving the B and high E string). That’s all I can think of.

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Maybe this will give you what you need: https://tac.bluesy.top/

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And yours too, @Moose408 ! Thanks!

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Thanks @tracy-jasman it took a little elbow-grease, but @Moose408 is the inspiration and did a lot of the grunt work!

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@joeconkeygmail-com

Just click on the skill courses in the sidebar on the left. 30 Days is the first course on the list.

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That’s Tommy Iommi’s hand in the photo, @jorgemac ! lol!

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