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Pretty!
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It’s challenging to do both, you have to be much more familiar with both the melody and the lyrics to pull it off.
Many lead vocalists in rock bands actually have (or had) guitar skills but would rarely play while singing on stage: Sammy Hagar simply wouldn’t play guitar while lead singing and he explained: “if I try to do both, they suffer”. His predecessor, David Lee Roth, has in fact donned a guitar on occasion. Robert Plant could play but did not while Jimmy Page was on stage with him. I’ve seen video of Mick Jagger awkwardly playing guitar on stage, but immediately stop playing when he started singing.
More often than not lead guitarists don’t sing or sing primarily backup vocals. (Pete Townsend, Eddie Van Halen). A select few can seemed to do both with ease but I imagine it comes from doing it a lot from a young age (Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, John Fogerty, Peter Frampton, Joe Walsh, S.R Vaughn, Mark Knopfler, Lindsey Buckingham)
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This is my second time through and it’s a bit a struggle still for me.
Monday’s challenge: not pleased with how much I struggled with making clean modified chords. On the D chord I’ve got mutes all over the place as I go through the modifications. The C actually went better, I think the last time my C was worse. G chord was not doable with the pinky on the high E, substituted the ring finger and that worked but doesn’t allow for the modifications in the exercise. F is still pretty much a cluster; the win for today was that I can actually sound an unmodified F mini every now and then, but doing mods and coming back to F-mini is a no go.
Tuesday’s challenge: I’m working on sliding from the NY chord down to the D major. It’s getting better but I’m still not up to speed on it. I am only doing version 1 (starts with base note) completely, but experimenting with version 2 (hammers). I can do the first hammer ok but the second hammer to form the D-chord is completely impossible for me. That ring finger just doesn’t come down with enough velocity while I’m holding the other 2 fingers in their respective positions for the D shape = no hammer effect.
Wednesday’s challenge: This is a lot of scales to learn. I’ve got the D-major under my fingers but I’m not finding it enticing to keep plugging through the rest of the scales after already spending close to 30 minutes on the first one.
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So it appears that the comments under the Challenge have been removed and now we are to come the the Benchmark forum to share experiences. This happened between yesterday(12/17/24) and today (12/18/24)
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That is really, really good! Entertaining video, clever lyrics and fun song! Totally love this!
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Oh this is wonderful! Thank-you so much for doing this for our veterans and posting this touching video!
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Excellent decision to record yourself and double kudos for posting it! This will enhance your growth greatly. And nice job with the baseline!
Greetings from a Canadian living in Florida.Keep up the good work, eh!
Peter
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Good to hear that you may be close to starting to shake off some rust and get back in the game! Merry Christmas Loraine!
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So it’s strange that it has gone in the opposite direction for me. I am literally tuning my guitar down every few days because it has gone sharp on every string. This has been the case for about 3 weeks now since I returned from my vacation. The guitars are always in the same temperature controlled room, and don’t move more than a few feet daily.
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This is good, thank-you. Quick transitions have been a struggle of mine also.
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The comment area is back! Most likely the disappearance was part of the maintenance yesterday (which I didn’t know was happening when I started my post here in the Benchmark forum.
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You’re welcome to use it for one of your videos! Just watched “Tough Pick”, what a hoot!
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Funny of you to say that, I live in a golf course community and even had a neighbor gift me a set of clubs, but I never play!
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Update: I finally own a Mandolin. I didn’t want to spend a lot of money so I ordered one from Amazon. Delivery was to be within about 1 month. Well it never did ship so ended up cancelling that order. I placed another order which then arrived the day I left on a 10 day trip to Vienna, Austria. So I just recently got back, opened the box and got her tuned up.
I’m looking up the riffs and chords now, and it’s not all that easy. I would rather not spend too much time on it so as to mess up my guitar routine. Just letting you know it’s in the works but it will be next year some time before I post anything at all.
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That really depends on where you are in your guitar journey. Have you gone through 30 days? What about the follow up programs and the skills training?
Your profile doesn’t reveal much. If you are a beginner then I would not jump on fretboard immediately, do that on the side if you have time. But if you are a somewhat experienced player you may want to dive into fretboard it that is fun for you. But judging by your original post it seems like you are still learning finger positions so in that case take your time and go through the introductory lessons before starting the daily challenges. Then add in the fretboard wizard.
The most important thing is consistency. I think Tony’s system gives you a little snippet of something to learn everyday, this helps tremendously to keep you on a daily routine.