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Thanks for sharing, Brandon! I lived in Montreal until the late 80’s, only made it to Toronto a few times. I went to college in Ottawa (Carleton).
I started about the same time as you (actually a bit earlier but it was it wasn’t TAC and I fell away from doing that other program). By the time I found TAC I had stopped for over 2 months, lost all the calluses. So July 3rd was my restart, although I knew how form about 10 chords already but my C, G, D, B7 even E were often muted. I’m getting better with that side of things but still working on transitioning quicker so as to actually be able to play a song. -
Welcome Knowtown! I hope Tony delivers what you need! It’s been great for me. Once I understood to take away something from each lesson and squash the perfectionist within it’s been a blessing!
I checked out a couple of other sites too before ending up on TAC. I still have access to one of the others and I occasionally will pull up certain lessons that I feel I need. But TAC is my daily bread and butter, hit that everyday and then practice on chord changes and songs as time allows. The skills tab here on TAC is very useful as well. I also joined Ultimate Guitar for the tabs (it was only $20/year so why not) and I joined a Beginner Guitar FB group. That about covers all my sources. -
Dude you are definitely playing (and singing!) campfire worthy! I don’t think you would running anybody off! Hope the pain situation continues to improve! Godspeed!
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Wow! He really seems to know what he is doing, get him a guitar he can learn on!
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I think most Newbies, myself included, will suffer perfectionist syndrome at the start of TAC because you just want to soak in as much as possible from every lesson. After some period of time you come to realize that no matter how much time you have and could devote to learning the skills of the day, you couldn’t do it.
Instead, focus on getting something out of each day’s lesson. If you can go through it quickly and play the whole bit, then fine, do that! But for most of us, most challenges won’t be of that nature. Try to get the first measure down to some degree, maybe the first 2. If you have time later in the day or in the week to come back, give it a shot but don’t harp on learning it because you probably just aren’t ready yet.
I have found that I can usually get Monday’s challenge at least on slow speed. But today I realized that I couldn’t. Today was like a 75 yard field goal for me, some Mondays it’s a 20 yard point after attempt. The skills have to have something for everyone, this one is too advanced for me and that’s okay. I just put in 15 minutes and marked complete! Then I practiced some other skills for another 5 minutes. -
Forgot to mention to “curl the knuckle!”. Earlier I wrote about getting the hand further under the neck, but you will never get far enough under to come at the fretboard with straight fingers, the last leg is a bend at the knuckle. You want to get off the pad of your fingers and right up on the tip directly under the fingernail.
Combining those 2 actions should help to eliminate some of the “thud”:
1. pushing the hand further under the neck (like you were trying to reach around it)2. curling your knuckles and fretting with the tip of your fingers
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Second time watching this! So good! Thanks for sharing!
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Very nicely done! You play very confidently and your singing is beautiful.
I’ve spent many weekends in Winter Haven at my 3 daughters’ softball tournaments. I live in Lake County but our teams scheduled so many tournaments in Polk!Peter
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Also this video that TAC member Beatrice posted recently also is very helpful:
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Hello Brad,
Looking at your profile it appears you are a new player like myself. I started early this year and joined TAC in July.
This is very common, starting out you will struggle with the G, C and D open chords. B7 is similar to G (just 1 fret towards the nut and small movements of the 1,2 and 3 fingers). G, B7 and C (sometimes even D!) gave me fits for months. Have you begun to develop calluses on your fingers yet? It takes close to a month for this to happen if you play about 20 min everyday. Might develop faster if you play longer, but it takes many months to get really solid calluses that are necessary for extended playing.
I assure you, keep working on it and it will get better! Keep your fingernails on the fretting hand as short as possible! What also helped me was getting my wrist lower (or further around) the neck so that the fingers are coming at the strings as perpendicular as possible.New players will tend to play with the wrong amount of pressure. Practice doing each note one at a time and feel how much pressure you need to play it clean! Finger placement should be as close the fret as possible, this will save you from having to overcome more of the tension in the strings and have push even harder.
If I think or hear about anything else on this topic, I will post it.Rock on, Brad!
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Curious about this too. One of my 3 guitars has seriously old strings, but it’s my Open D guitar for the week. As a result I’ve been bending the dickens out them and they’re still in tune!
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Totally!
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Really? Somewhere in the introductory course offerings I was quite strongly exhorted to mark my calendar for these quarterly events! It’s in the Quick Start guide also.
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Oh yeah! The TAC community is exposing me to a lot of musicians and broadening my horizon immensely. Such a good thing, I was getting burned out of Spotify feed (seems no matter how I set it up I keep hearing the same songs! I’m gonna be creating a whole new set of playlists based on these artists I hardly know).