petelanger
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I remember when this song hit the airwaves, I was 10 at the time and my sisters were obsessed with it. I didn’t get it at first, I was into rock like the Beatles, Cream and the Guess Who. but after a few months I began to like it and 0ver the years since I’ve learned to love Gordon Lightfoot and many other folksy artists like him. He was an amazing song writer!
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The reason I looked it up was because I had never been exposed to the song in my 65 years on the planet. Then it made sense because I am definitely not familiar with all of Dylan’s work and my taste is definitely more rock and blues than folk and country although it does crossover as do the artists themselves. Wagon Wheel never made it onto my radar unlike most of the other benchmark songs.
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I’m not sure I follow what problem this solves. Is it that your pick turns while you are playing or you pick it up wrong? Is this to improve your grip on the pick so as not to drop it?
My problem is misplacing my picks. I have plenty of them but of course you have your favorites and they like to go and hide on you!
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Next to your username there’s a little pointer, if you click on that a dropdown menu appears giving you links to lot of your stuff.
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Lack of enjoyment probably indicates that the program doesn’t match or meet your expectations. Could you tell us what you were expecting?
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Welcome to TAC, Mike! Great to have you aboard. Please visit the forums often to update us on how you’re doing and don’t hesitate to ask questions!
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It’s not really something to worry about. Of course you can log in and see what the challenges are. But it’s not like you fall behind, because the skills keep coming back around. However, there are number of traveling guitars and there are options that you might not have thought of, such as renting a guitar.
There was this thread a while back:
https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/topic/traveling-options/
tonypolecastro.com
Traveling options - Community Support - Tony's Acoustic Challenge
Traveling options - Community Support - Tony's Acoustic Challenge
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@Ron-A I have found a ton of free How to play ___________ on Youtube. Free is good, inexpensive is too, I found Ultimate Guitar will periodically offer their massive catalog for $20 per year so I snapped that up. It was probably premature, I’m not that focused on playing songs at this point in my journey. However, I have gone into it quite a few times to look up chords so it was worth it.
Just recently I looked up the outro to ‘Starship Trooper’ by Yes and it showed the TABS, the chord shapes and has a play button so you can listen as the cursor runs through the TABs. There’s a ton more but that was all I needed. It just filled my heart with warmth, being able to (very poorly) play a riff that I’ve loved for decades, the kind that have led many of us to the guitar and to TAC.
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Right back at you @Tricia_Lynn ! Sometimes I wish the forums were a bit livelier, but I think most members post in the Challenge threads and leave it be, maybe they’re unawares! It’s great to see (and hear) what people are working on!
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This is great! You ARE a performer! Not that it’s perfect but it just exudes positivity, confidence and fun with a wonderful clarity.
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The home page:
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Based on your info, by subbing in the words subbing in “transistor-radio” and “skippin-and-a-jumpin” I found
Transistor Radio:
https://tonypolecastro.com/lessons/transistor-radio-2-2/
and Skippin’ And A Jumpin’
https://tonypolecastro.com/lessons/skippin-and-a-jumpin-2-2/
but using the same methodology – subbing in “old mine” or “going-down-the-old-mine” I couldn’t retrieve that lesson
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That’s amazing! I’ve had thoughts about building something but you actually did it!
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It does take some time to learn enough skill to actually “sound good”. How long? There isn’t a universal answer to that because of too many variables. But most people will probably need somewhere around 2 years, give or take 18 months to adequately integrate some of the most basic guitar skills into your subconscious.
It used to be believed that it takes 10,000 hours to master something, but that is generally not accepted as fully true anymore. For discussion purposes, let’s just assume thee is some truth in that estimate. If you devoted 40 hours a week then it would take 5 years to accumulate 10,000 hours. Members on TAC report they spend 15 minutes to maybe 180 minutes per day but I have not heard of anyone claiming to play guitar for anywhere near 40 hours per week. I know a professional guitar player and he isn’t close to 40 hours.
The point is that even if it takes 1/5 of 10k hours to acquire “mastery”, it still would be quite a large of number of 15-180 minute sessions.
Instead of fixating on wanting to “sound musical”, try to direct your attention to incremental improvement by measuring periodically. That’s why we have the benchmark weeks where you are encouraged to record yourself and compare your playing to what it used to be. Personally I look for something to take away from every daily challenge, something that went better than expected or some nugget that I learned in the current session. It’s important to identify it and write it down. When you write it down you might also post it here on TAC as this lifts others up as well as yourself!
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I loved the movie @jnerney981gmail-com !
I think you nailed it old – coach!
For the record the last time we did Wagon Wheel was the week of Oct 7th, about 4 months ago.
I have indeed made progress since then. I worked through the entire week of challenges this time where as my first time in October I was not able to do the rhythm challenges at all.
TAC has been a God-sent for me. I abandoned several other online teaching programs within weeks while with TAC I’ve been here everyday and enjoying myself. But we aren’t all wired the same way and perhaps it isn’t for everyone?
Peter