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Really sorry to hear about this @Loraine , a true bummer. Can you move your fingers on your left hand at all? If so, you can still practice forming chord shapes – so you don’t loose the muscle memory. Just a thought, to add to your list of positive outlooks. Leave it to you to have a list of positive outlooks to overcome the depths of despair, you never cease to amaze Loraine! I wish for you a smooth and speedy recovery.
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Excellent stuff @charlie_d , no doubt about it!!!
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Hey @Marty73 , great rendition! I tried doing some single note riffs in C (Am), but couldn’t come up with anything that sounded half decent. Happy to catch your vids on this new (to you) platform. Hope all is well with you and that you weren’t affected by the hurricane. Take care my friend.
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Great rendition @Marty73 , I enjoyed listening. Good to see your smiling face on a new video platform!
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Great demonstration of vocal range @KevinZ .
No way I could hit those notes unless I capoed up and sang octaves lower (LOL).
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Great show of progress @outdoorgator !!!
YOU ARE A GUITAR PLAYER
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Excellent rendition @stevep ! That sounded so nice and the solo was beautiful too. I really enjoyed listening, thanks for posting.
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Mine seems to be working OK @stevieblues !
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Hi @BrandonK , I hope you’re enjoying the Fretboard Wizard course. I was fortunate enough to be one of the first “FW students” in this iteration of the course. The patterns that you’re asking about are the patterns to find the NEXT SAME NOTE on the fretboard. For instance, let’s start with an open B string or a B note. Where is the next closest B note? According to Tony’s formula, we need to skip one fret (toward the body of the guitar) and skip 2 strings (toward the ceiling) to find the next B note. To work that out, we skip the 1st fret and goto the 2nd fret, then we skip the G & D strings and goto the A string and there is the answer – A string 2nd fret = the next closest B note. And that works for any note along the B string, that next closest note will be on the A string 2 frets toward the body from the note on the B string. And Tony explained the relationship from all the strings to another string to find the next closest same note. The downside is that this requires a lot of memorization, skipping frets and skipping strings. But I found a much easier way to find the next closest same note, without all of that memorization. In fact, you just need to remember 1 word and 1 number. The word is “B A G E D” (almost caged, but not quite). This word is the order of string names, the order in which you go from one string to the next to find the next closest same note all along the fretboard, and it works like the musical alphabet. If we have a note on the A string and we want to find the next closest same note going forward (toward the body), we’ll find it on the G string. And if we want to go backward (toward the head stock) from that note on the A string, we’ll find it on the B string. Like I said, this works just like the musical alphabet. Now for the number, it’s 11212. This number represents the number of frets to skip between the strings. If we combine the number with the word, we have B(1)A(1)G(2)E(1)D(2)B. That right there is the whole ball of wax pertaining to finding the NEXT SAME CLOSEST NOTE.
I hope this helps make the concept more clear Brandon!
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Enjoyed listening to your rendition @-Rick- , and amazing fret work with the alternate tuning. At least the Breedlove stayed dry (LOL) – great looking (and sounding) guitar BTW. Looking forward to hearing your version again, maybe without the rain.
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Hi @Rob503 , sorry to hear that you’re not happy with your progress up to this point. I’m in my 4th year with TAC and I’ve read countless posts like yours. The root problem with each and every one of them was THEIR EXPECTATIONS WERE WAY TO HIGH from the start. They all thought that they would be playing like rock stars after a couple months of TAC challenges. Is this where you are now, feeling disappointed because you haven’t been able to achieve the goals you set for yourself? Reality check: rock stars don’t become “stars” in a day! My advise to you is to DIAL BACK YOUR EXPECTATIONS, and make a commitment to your guitar journey. Never compare yourself to someone else and remember, you only get out what you’re willing to put in.
Best of luck to you Rob!
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Great performance @DiscostewLA !
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Great cover @KevinZ , I enjoyed watching and listening. I could sense a little Elvis in your voice and it seems to me that you were dead-on with the 3/4 time!
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Hi @BrandonK ,I know that you’ve heard the saying “too many chefs in the kitchen spoil the soup”. After reading what you’ve written, I can see that this is a classic case of spoiling the soup. I think you should go through FW, learn it, before going on to another “class” – JMHO – I’m not criticizing, you can do what you want, it’s your journey. I believe that by doing multiple music theory courses at the same time isn’t going to make you a better guitar player or give you a better understanding of theory, it’s just going to create confusion. I say choose one course, go through it, get some understanding under your belt, then move on to another course if you wish. Right know, I feel you’re just mixing and matching ideas from one course with another, without understanding or experiencing any of the underlying concepts. Step back, choose a course, go through it, learn from it, then try the next one.
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Hi @BrandonK , I think I see what you’re talking about now, and that pertains to what Tony calls Finding The Key By Ear. The process as Tony teaches it is to have you play notes along the lowE string and try to match what you feel is the lowest chord sound in the song, because 99% of the time, that is the KEY in which the song is written. Once you’ve decided on the lowest note, then from there he wants you to play a major scale and/or a minor scale using that lowest chord sound as the root of that scale to see if the KEY is major or minor. I’m not sure why you want to use pentatonic scales, but that will work as well, provided you know the difference between a major pentatonic scale SHAPE and a minor pentatonic scale SHAPE. You should “Google” pentatonic scales. I think you’ll see that doing a major scale shape will be much easier, but like I said, the pentatonic scale shape will work also.
Good luck Brandon.