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Read your bio and it made me smile. I also play Connections and Wordle every day, but usually not to start off. About your challenges, @Moose408 created a googlesheet that has links to essentially all challenges.
“Can’t Find My Way Home” (Blind Faith – Steve Winwood) was in drop D, was it that week?
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Are you looking for the daily stretch, those warmup exercises? That’s in the skills tab. Look for the music sign in the side bar on the left
It appears that skill courses don’t have the option to be favorited.
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I would love to start something up again if anybody is interested in putting a group together. I feel much too green to lead this but I wouldn’t mind helping to organize things if there is enough interest. I find it isn’t lively enough around here.
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It looks like this has been renamed from Progress Party to Enjoyment Audit.
We actually do a self audit every 90 days. I was also confused about this when I started. I will look up the thread that I started then and link to it since people chimed in on how the audit works. It used to be a collective effort that Tony was involved in but this hasn’t been done in many years as the membership grew along with Tony’s family.
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I usually fret 2-4, then barre like you. I’m trying to do it simultaneously.
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Now that’s tricky to not only not mute with the ring finger but fret the high E with your index finger on the 2nd fret. I can’t do this cleanly but I can’t get it working with some buzzing. But I see where if you able to bend the first knuckle of your ring back slightly, so that the finger is no longer straight, this would be quite easy to do. Some people naturally have this ability and perhaps it can be “developed” to a small degree.
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So lets look at this: playing the chord the way Tony shows us in the challenge:
B, F#, B, D# (the high E string is muted)if played it would be a G# so the chord would be:
B, F#, B, D#, G#
I have tried to figure it out from what little music theory I have learned; I hope somebody more informed than I can validate what follows or correct it. Based on the ear test, I would say it fits! If I am on the right track the B major scale consists of, using the formula “tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone-tone -semitone”:
B C# D# E F# G# B
For the B chord you need:
Root: B
the 3rd: D#
the 5th: F#
The G# is in the scale so it definitely doesn’t clash, but it isn’t required because you already have the basics of the B chord.
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@vivianetessierme-com thank-you for watching! Fingers are slow, having to do a lot of repetitions to try and up my transition speed. I am slowly improving. I wish I had done it when I was young. I wanted to but I didn’t ask my parents for whatever reason. My older sister started at 13, she got pretty good and the whole family would gather in the living room to sing along with the songs she had learned. The few that I remember are listed here, but she played many, many more back in the late 60’s.
Yesterday
To Sir With Love
Summer Time
As Tears Go By
Yellow Bird
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I share in your disappointment. Nonetheless, I was aware of this when I converted my membership to lifetime. I find that despite some shortcomings, it is still the best value out there because the lessons are that good. He has the them structured in a layered fashion so that beginner to advanced players can benefit. I really wish the communication were improved though. The only lively place is in the challenge area and that is very fleeting with only minimal engagement among the students (there are actually hurdles to overcome if you want to post more than once in the same challenge). At the end of the week all the interaction (mostly one-sided) gets flushed!
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This is an old thread and I’m not sure who the question is for or even what the question is.
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Ummmmm, wouldn’t that be the ring finger @Moose408 ?
I personally can’t reach across a whole fret between index and middle.
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April and August of last year the cost was $167. I have resisted too, but my reasoning is not strictly cost, I didn’t want the distraction. I’ll probably go for it on the next sale thought. Right now I’m enjoying the “No Bull Music Theory for Guitarists” books by James Shipway.
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Beautiful comment!! ❤