petelanger
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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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The OP is MIA.
It’s been an interesting thread to learn what people are working on! I’m looking forward to hearing the fruits of everyone’s efforts! Keep strumming, hammering and bending my fellow guitar geeks!
(the emojis don’t work so going back to old school) :; 🙂one of them converted to a smiley, lol!
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LOL!
I feel your pain, was absolutely there with you not long ago.
“Fat fingers unite”….HaHa!! what was the movie where they referred to the organist as “mittens”?
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This is really great! I was not familiar with the name Townes Van Zandt, however, I am pretty sure I heard this before. I am more familiar with the Van Zant brothers of Lynrd Skynrd and 38 Special.
I thought you played this excellently, there were a few minor hesitations which don’t make any difference at all, otherwise clear notes and vocals.
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Wow! That’s just beautiful! Do you know Dominic Miller? You remind me of him with the smoothness of your fretting and finger picking hands. (He’s the guy who collaborated with Sting for decades after the Police split up).
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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).
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Nice list!
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Thanks for posting the Link, Moose! This was your first? A really good debut IMO! Your rhythm is almost perfect, voice steady – these things are hard especially in the beginning! I enjoyed it very much.
The girl is phenom, no need for us to make that comparison. Only posted for people’s enjoyment.
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That’s a great interview, I’m a Rick Beato subscriber so I watched this almost a year ago and have rewatched parts of it a few times since:
“Your Song”
“The Winner Takes All”
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Oh now I remember you Braden: “Wish You Were Here (Sid)!”
How are things in the Great White North? Keep that ‘Floyd coming, bro!
One day I’d like to record “Dogs”! – I’ve had the lyrics memorized since ’78 but it’s way out of reach with 3 tough barre chords and 10 other chords to worry about.