petelanger
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As always, thanks for posting Kevin!
My wife and I are headed to Austria next week and we’ll be taking in some Waltzes at the Vienna State Opera House by Johann Strauss. There might not be any guitar playing, lol!
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Awesome! Thanks Moose! This saves a lot of time.
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I had the same issue with a lot of chords and I still do when doing chord transitions. While I can play the chord clean if I just sit down and form a C-chord, I might flub it if I’m coming from an F or a C chord. But in the beginning I couldn’t play it clean no matter how much I tried. So the answer is, it will get better with time.
What helped me was pushing my wrist a little bit further under the guitar neck and make sure my fingers are coming at the strings as perpendicular as possible. After time you will improve the bends in your fingers, allowing you to fret more cleanly. Make sure your nails are clipped as short as possible! There aren’t any shortcuts but there are lots of exercises you can do that will help your fretting hand develop.Here is one of many options: https://youtu.be/2onjflSqHNo
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Follow the Quick Start Guide, it’s all there:
https://tonypolecastro.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/TAC_User_Guide-v5.pdfRelax, and have fun! Don’t try to do too much, that is to master every lesson. That may work for the 30 Day Challenge but once you get into Daily Challenges there will be things that are beyond you. You want to give it 10 or maybe up to 30 minutes but then call it quits. Move on! Yes it’s good to push yourself a little but don’t steal your own joy from yourself. Always keep it fun!
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Beautifully mesmerizing!
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If you really want access there is a way to get to it.
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Hotel California will be coming up the week after next, so starting in 13 days.
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I’m fairly new here so others may chime in who have been at this 20 times as long as I have but in my opinion there’s not really any reason you couldn’t play along with Tony on an electric. I do a lot of the challenges (exercises) on both an acoustic and an electric guitar. Sure there might be certain songs we do where the sound is suited for the acoustic guitar but it’s fine to use an electric for this course.
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It looks like you can call anything up by the name. I went through my notes and randomly chose 2 titles.
start with the first part of the URL: https://tonypolecastro.com/
and add on your title (see examples below)
If you have a listing of the challenges then you can pull them up by replacing “buttered-popcorn” with your desired title:
August 26 – Aug 28 Lets Go To the Movies
https://tonypolecastro.com/exercise/buttered-popcorn/
main-feature
starring-role
Sept 2- Sept 4 Mississippi John Hurt
https://tonypolecastro.com/exercise/mississippi-timing/
railroad-tracks
spike driver
catch-and-release/
Sept 9- Sept 13 Ain’t No Sunshine
cloudy-day
gone-too-long
i-know-i-know-i-know
whither-away
every-time-she-goes-away
These are all I can find for the moment. I should have some notes from August but I’m not finding them right now. In July I was doing the 30 Days to Play and then after that the 5 Day Routine.
Peter
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Nice! I remember this song so well because my sister played it frequently in the late ’60’s. She was about 14 when she started playing and this was prominently in her repertoire along with As Tears Go By, House of the Rising Son and Yellow Bird.
The song was written in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, and Ira Gershwin.
It was famously recorded by Billy Holiday in 1936 and reached #12 on the pop charts.
Hundreds of artists have covered it besides the legendary Billy there’s Ella Fitzgerald w. Louis Armstrong, Sam Cooke, The Zombies, Billy Stewart, Janis Joplin, Willie Nelson, Al Green are some of most beloved covers.
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Love that song, I assume you are referring to the unplugged version and not the Derek and the Dominoes original?
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Salut Louis! I lived in Quebec from 1961 until 1971, and then again from ’77 til about ’88. I’m an Austrian born, Canadian living in Florida.
From this photo, the one thing that I can advise is to place your fingers closer the frets. For example your #1 (index) could slide up a good centimeter or so. It’s easier to fret when you are closer, doesn’t require as much pressure. Also by sliding #1 down the others can move along and this may make it easier for your #3 (ring) to reach.
Peter
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Doh! OK, that makes sense why several people were asking for this!
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I’ve been looking through the forums and I don’t think Layla makes an appearance. It’s been an amazing journey though, I am finding some great performances on the way.