Bill1am
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Love this tune, and that whole album! Sounds great! Keep it up!
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Welcome!
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Welcome aboard! Glad you have come back to it! And as you’ve already been told, it’s not totally from scratch, all that memory is in there somewhere! Consistency will go a long way!
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Wow, what a lovely instrument! Welcome aboard. I just started my second pass at fretboard wizard and I am really impressed with it!
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Lol! Yeah, I can be long-winded for sure. I’m trying to put out a mix of longer, in-depth vids and shorter ones where I just play something!
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Thank you!
I find it’s often the case when I go to record something that I really hit my stride near the end. I could probably warm up more!
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Thank you both! And excellent idea Loraine, I have one guitar that currently lives in Open D, which is nice. Once I start playing more in other tunings too, I will need more guitars!
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Personally, I did the 30 days in about two weeks. I also started doing the daily challenges Day 1, but the 30 days were my focus till I get through them.
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Welcome back! Picking up the guitar again is always a win, whether it’s been an hour or a year!
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Welcome! I would urge you to have faith in the process and stick with it. I felt like I was getting very little out of anything but the chord progression on thursdays. I think you will soon realize that tuesdays and mondays start coming out when you least expect them, you will find yourself playing Monday techniques and Tuesday riffs in your warmups, then you find yourself trying out your Friday transitions on other songs. Wednesdays clicked last for me, but it all keeps clicking! This isn’t about what you can play today, or even tomorrow, it’s about what you can play in 3 weeks, 3 months, a year! Hang in there!
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Awesome! I briefly dabbled in guitar when I was twenty, I took it up again at 44, 7 months ago this weekend. I often wonder where I’d be if I had stuck with it for the last 25 years. I can’t control that, but I can stick with it for the next 25 if I make it that long!
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Here is my latest playthrough! Not a lot of audible improvement, but it will come!
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Yes, the original recording is in Bm, this version is Am, switching the chords 2 semitones higher or playing the same shapes with a capo on 2 will get you there. I think I’ll stick to Am time around, but I will probably make sure I can play some of the cool licks I made up today in B as well!
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As a central Texas guy, I thought the same thing! I was picturing that strange mix of the south and southwest you find in that part of Texas. We Texas guys might have to start our own Hill Country blues!
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Welcome to TAC, and welcome to the forum! I know what you mean about fingerpicking feeling like square one! I felt like once I could strum a few chords, picking individual strings felt like square one, now I’m going through the same with fingerstyle. I’ve come to realize that taking on new things that make you feel like that is a good feeling, or at least leads to a good feeling. One of the beautiful things about TAC is that it forces you to wander out of your comfort zone ( no matter how big or small) at least a couple times a week. It might be a new genre, a new tuning, a new technique, a key you’ve never played in, or a transition between two things you can do but never connected before. Every couple weeks you’ll be walking along in the borders of you comfort zone and realize how much bigger it’s gotten. You’ll find yourself paging through your bookmarks for that one song you couldn’t quite manage a month and a half ago and remember “Oh, I can do that slide now!” Or “I can play that barre chord now.”
Have fun and hang in there!