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Hi Terry B, have you checked out Tony’s Skill Courses? There’s one for strumming (and lots of other good stuff!) Have a look:

https://tonypolecastro.com/courses/strumming-jumpstart/

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Tony reviews guitars from Godin in Acoustic Tuesday episode 208 Oct 12, 2021

According to Tony: “These are the top 5 acoustic guitar made by trusted and respectable
brands from Canada that I think are worth checking out in 2021!”

https://tonypolecastro.com/at208/

Best Canadian guitars under $800

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I always liked The Strawbs “Part of the Union”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part_of_the_Union

The song was written with genuine celebratory intent, in support of the unions.^[2]

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Hi there:

Here are a couple that may be what you are looking for

– YouTube Tony, Jan2020 Can you change your blues guitar technique in only 5 days? On the Acoustic Life Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqKw3ixb1aw&list=PL8jYLoDm3lMxFk5nmJQYeCl8AtiKECvVl

– In the Skills Section, there are a couple Blues in 5days: https://tonypolecastro.com/courses/

12 bar Blues 5 day challenge and Blues 5 Day Challenge. I hadn’t seen these before the new look website

Hope this helps,

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Hi @Philb thanks and I’ll check out the Ernie Ball Aluminum Bronze

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Hi @Bill_Brown Thanks for the update! I had kinda moved the SantaCruz to bottom of the list based on mixed thoughts and price.

May Santa Cruz are great marketers 🙂

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Hi @jumpinjeff Thanks very much for the reply and make a very good point to have 2 or 3 sets on hand and experiment, have fun and see where the strings lead. The 2 on my list so far are Martin’s as suggested by Bill_Brown and D’Addario EJ16’s as suggested by Albert_d and you. Thanks all!!

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Hi @Bill_Brown thanks for the reply and the Martins sound interesting – pardon the Dad pun. I’m going to get a set and try them out.

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Hi @albert_d thanks for the reply and I will give one of these 2 a try.

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@Mark – I have been waiting for FW to open as well and surprised that I missed it. I wonder when it was open and for how long…

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I’m interested in Fretboard Wizard as well. Is there a course description? Or a sample video?

In the meantime, is the The Foundations of Fretboard Navigation, 7 lessons in the Skills section, a good primer for Fretboard Wizard?

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Are the 3 things you recommend: Chromatic Scale, Major Scale Pattern & Minor Scale Pattern on the TAC site? I searched the skills section using those words and did not get a result. I keen to learn and have zero music background, I kinda know what is a scale is but don’t know what would be the differences between the 3 you recommend or where I can go to learn more. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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@Derrick – Thank you for your great post – I like your Windows 8 comparison (I was thinking New Coke).

It does seem that some of the great stickiness of TAC has been left behind, let’s hope that the TAC Team is reading and taking these comments into account as it plans TAC version 2.1

There is one thing that is surprising to me and that is the loss of the previous forums. It is best practice in IT projects to take a backup or copy of the current system, so that if there are any problems, you can “roll back” to the original system. I wonder if there is a Back Up copy of the old Forums that could be brought into the new TAC.

I found the old forums to be excellent sources of information. For example, instead of asking a question, I’d search the forums looking for a previous post and the answers. Then I would bookmark those answers on my computer, to help me. I miss that already.

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