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If blues didn’t have the lure that it had and still has, the British Invasion doesn’t happen when it did and rock music would not be what it is today. I’m not saying we don’t have some form of rock and roll music but the men that became Beatles, Cream, Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin heard blues music and said “That’s what I want!”
Just think of all the great players from England that we love, almost everyone started as a blues player. Most of them played either with John Mayall and the Blues Breakers, the Yardbirds (where you had to be a blues player to qualify), or both: Peter Green, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood (all of Fleetwood Mac), Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor, Jimmy Page, etc. Even Jimmy Hendrix had to go to England to get noticed because that’s where this great blues movement was happening! -
My sister used to play this song back in the 60’s when she was 15. Our whole family gathered in the living room and she would play and sing as we all sang along. There were a bunch of songs, let’s see which ones I can remember:
– The House of the Rising Sun (Animals)
– As Tears Go By – (Rolling Stones)
– Summer Time – (Gershwin/Billy Holiday)
– Yellow Bird – (Harry Belafonte)– To Sir With Love, Theme Song (Lulu)
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Can’t please everybody I guess. Blues is such a huge part of music, it seems perfectly natural that we are learning blues riffs. I’m sorry that you don’t like it. I’m 65 and I’ve been drawn to blues music for over 50 years. Of course I love rock and classical as well. We are musical creatures and all these genres, methods and styles of musical expression, evolved from the soul we have been endowed with by the Creator.
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I’m practicing chord transitions. I have spreadsheet with 15 transitions listed right now.
Here’s my MO: I practice a change for a little while and then count how often I can do them in a minute. I record this in the spreadsheet and then check again next week how many I can do. Rinse and repeat.
My fingers have been giving me heck because some instructor had make the G chord in a completely different shape from what I’ve been practicing. Guess I’ve got to add that shape to my spreadsheet! -
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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I’ve lived in Florida since ’88, so I hardly think of myself as a Canuck anymore (except when it comes to hockey) although most people know that I’m from there. There’s also the element that although I grew up on the West Island, I was born in Austria and also speak fluent German having completed grades 6-12 over there before returning to go to University.
My daughters grew up here and think of themselves as Floridians. I Identify more with Tom Petty than with Neil Young these days. But I’ve still got my sisters living up there, one in Montreal and one in Victoria.
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Would you Love to Change the World? 😉
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Totally!