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Love it! Especially how it quickly moves along, great lyrics! Very inspiring work!
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I appreciate your thanks today, but I think this will really be helpful tomorrow! I’ll link back to it in tomorrow’s comments as well.
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Replying to self to bump post since it’s Five Star Hotel Week again.
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American Girl is probably his signature song.
So many great ones though: Don’t Do Me Like That, Refugee, Last Dance with Mary Jane, Breakdown and on and on….
Dolly Parton did a beautiful tribute to Tom by singing Southern Accents
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Totally normal, I am struggling with it myself! Here’s an exercise that I did for weeks last year but have only done occasionally since and if I had done it 2 minutes a day, everyday I bet I wouldn’t have had any problem with Thursday and Friday’s challenges>
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Another one of my favorite tunes ever! Sweet!
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Wow! That is so well done, nice arrangement!
Purple Rain (the song, the album, the movie) really rocked my world back in the day!
Let’s Go Crazy, When Doves Cry, I Would Die 4 U
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I still sound sort of like this myself, and I’ve been TAC-ing since July last year. I don’t have a uke, but I have a mandolin. I’m not any better on it, actually just started messing with it.
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My understanding is that TAC teaches you fundamentally how to handle your instrument. Once you have a good foundation you will have the skills to play a thousand or maybe 10,000 songs.
As a beginner you could spend weeks or even months learning how to play ONE song and then that’s all you got. Now the next song, then another….. etc. Maybe in 6 months you can (sort of) play about 5 songs not very well.With TAC you spend an extended time to get good with your instrument, then you can learn multiple songs in a single day.
I am not speaking from experience, this is what I have gleaned from being a member. I am 8 months into my journey with TAC.
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Oh, I am sorry! It prints out super small if you try to print from this site. I will attach a pdf file with good size diagrams.
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“Wishes for many more” (anniversaries), but he is saying he can’t stay, this is it.
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I think @TCice is saying good-bye
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I know, right? That’s why I’m not fiddling with it every day. Got to keep my focus on the guitar. The mando is fun though, such a cool sound. I bought is specifically to play the mandolin parts in “Losing My Religion” and I looked at some videos and thought: that doesn’t look terribly hard.
Then as I was going through it and trying to rehearse the parts, darn…if there isn’t a very difficult reach on one of the chords. It’s such a tiny instrument (frets are less than 3/4 inches) and I’m a grown man with fairly large hands but it was giving me some trouble so I’ve set it aside.
I just pulled it out again and tried it, have to reach from the bottom E string on the first fret to the top G string on the 5th fret with my ring finger. I actually can do it now, it’s not comfortable but all this stretch work with TAC is paying dividends. Yay!
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I assume you opened a support ticket @Aureum thank-you!
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This! I felt the same for the first few weeks, but even when I felt I was floundering I later realized that I was actually learning. It’s amazing, just do the thing (10 minutes at least per day) and everything takes care of itself. There have been many weeks that seemed a lot more manageable since then. On the other hand there are weeks like this one…. especially the bottom part of this week was very hard for me again (rhythm and the chord transition challenges).
It’s good to be challenged though! If it were always easy you would not advance very much. The learning is in the struggle. Sometimes it will motivate you to work, work, work at it, but only do this if it’s enjoyable! Other times you just let it go and amazingly find the same skill is so much easier the next time around.