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Hi @Sidney S,
Try playing the challenges waaaaayyyyy slower than in the videos, and that will help. When a particular challenge cycles back around again, you will be much better at it by that time.
Also, the Monday warmups are imho the most difficult ones!
If you are really new to playing, don’t put too much emphasis on the daily challenges. Try them every day to get in the habit, but don’t be bummed if you can’t handle them yet. Concentrate on 30 Days to Play.
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You consider 11s lighter? You must be a bodybuilder!
If you ever play electric, you are going to KILL those barre chords!
Seriously, congrats on the win. Barres are a real hurdle.
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Hey @Alfred that’s a great plan, you seem pretty organized to me!!
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There isn’t a button for editing the original post in a thread. So where I wrote “major chord positions”, it should read “major scale patterns.”
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@derrick I know I bothered you a lot on the old forums, but if you wouldn’t mind checking my “major scale patterns” pdf, I’d certainly appreciate it.
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Hi Will, yes practically everything here can be applied to blues, and there is even a slide skills course. And there are many blues fans here.
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Ha @Daniel_Morin that was really clever. Nice job!
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@TimK1 that’s a beautiful guitar, from my old hometown! I’d love to have one—someday. It’s exactly the sort of guitar I want for blues. And your playing does it justice for sure.
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Hi @christopher, there are some tiny little nearly invisible gray icons on the right side under the lesson videos. One of those looks like music notation, and that will take you to the tab.
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“There was no pick! THERE WAS NOOOO PIIIIICK!!!”
-Seinfeld
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It’s a firmly established addiction now, thank goodness!
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An excellent way to look at it, yes!
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Hi @Alfred it’s always a battle between me and organization, everywhere in life! The spreadsheet has “evolved” quite a bit and will continue to do so as I get the hang of this.
I tried using a timer but now I just write down the finish time for each exercise. Might bring it back in if I try exercises with definite time targets.
Also want to start using the metronome a lot more. I’ve tried backing tracks but I’m not really there yet.
I have this idea that when an experienced guitarist says “beginner”, that guitarist is thinking of someone with several months of work already in the bag, who is beginning to progress musically as well as mechanically. Experienced guitarists can’t remember what it’s really like to fumble around as a complete noob (or perpetual noob, in my case). It’s not their fault they can’t remember—it’s just that those memories have been overwritten in both the brain and the muscles. They literally can no longer imagine not being able to play!
Tony and some others seem to have a better handle on the beginner’s situation, thank goodness.
That’s my dumb theory anyway. The point is, right now I am focusing on mechanics primarily, along with some practical theory, at the expense of playing songs. Of course songs can help with both the mechanics and the theory, which is why I’m including a limited selection.
Ha, rereading this, it might sound like I think I know what I’m doing… HAHAHA.
Good luck to us all. 🤟
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Ha @AttyTJ yeah it’s just my first initial and the first letters of my last name, but I always liked how it turned out!
Hope others here enjoy guitar puns. Wouldn’t want anyone to get fret-bored.
(A bit worried we’re testing the new censorship policy here…)
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Uh. Fretting puns are a real pain in the neck.