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Keep it rollin @BethL 🤩👏👏🎸

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Loved it💙 @Philb 👏👏👏🎸 That was a really nice little ditty🤩

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A beautiful number @stevieblues 🍾🥂👍 I’m extremely happy for you🎸🤘 Let’s just keep this “Silver Streak” train goin🚆 and hope we end at the station🚉 “on time” (lol)😂 With that said, I wish you the best of paths along your journey🚀my friend🤩

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That was a really fine foray into the Dm tuning @DM1982 👍 You ‘re journeying well👏👏👏

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Hey @Jonathandavid , you’ve got to let that air circulate when trying to solo over a tough backing track like this one (LOL)🤣, right? I think you did a nice job of finding notes within the scale that fit with the backing track. I like how you played the scale along the hiD string too, IMHO, that sounded better than going across the strings. Thank you for posting Jonathan👏👏👏

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Hi @MarkI , welcome to TAC. I think you chose a great place to begin your guitar journey. You’re referring to the “Blues Shuffle” tab, which is set up in a standard 12 bar Blues fashion and using a 1-4-5 progression where A is the 1 chord, D is the 4 chord and E is the 5 chord. I doubt you’ll understand what I’m saying, but someday you will – so for now, just believe that the tab is correct. Yes, you start playing the open A string while fretting the D string on the 2nd then 4th frets and repeat, that is a partial A chord that you are playing. Then in the next measure you play a partial D chord where you play an open D string while fretting the 2nd then 4th frets of the G string. Then you play the partial E chord by playing the open loE string while fretting the 2nd then 4th frets of the A string.

Good luck Mark and have fun, don’t worry about the minutia at this point. Just know that you’re being taught by a great teacher in Tony.

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Having fun is what it’s all about @Alphajim5 🎸🤘 congrats on your small win👏👏👍

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That’s a great small win @Timbothirroul 👏👏🎸👍

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Hi @ATTILA , welcome to TAC. I hope you have a fun journey here. As for finding fun with these Daily Challenges in open Dm tuning, I feel your hurt. But if you care to go back to today’s challenge and read the comments, I think you’ll find something fun (at least it was to me) in a link provided by @peter_m . It’s an article from Acoustic Guitar Magazine about blues in open Dm tuning. At the bottom of the article is a tab, and I had fun playing that instead of today’s chord progression. Try it, you may like it (if you still have your guitar tuned to open Dm).

[Bill_Brown]

Hi @RDs Guitar , if you’re looking for an AT Show from the past, then just click on Acoustic Tuesday in the left side menu and go from there. If you’re looking for a specific Daily Challenge, you can click on a members profile and bring up their profile page. Beneath their picture, click on Favorites, and you’ll bring up every Daily Challenge that the member has favorited. If you know what day of the week the specific challenge was on, then you can narrow your search down because they’re set up that way – keep in mind that there are sometimes (depending on the member) multiple pages in each category. You’re welcome to search my “favorites”, because I’ve favorited just about every lesson since the change over to the current system. Good luck!

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Happy 1st TACiversary @Rando 🎂🍾🥂 I wish you many more (and you will, by doing the lifetime thing)👏👏👍 Enjoy the journey and have a finger pickin good time🎸🤘

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I really enjoyed listening to your song @DM1982 👏👏👏I liked the meaningfulness of the verses. Sad, but very profound🤔

Hope you can get to feeling better soon🎸

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That was a SWEET rendition @KevinZ 👏👏👏 Your 6/8 timing seemed right-on to me👍 Wonderful finger picking & singing too🤩🎸 I really enjoyed listening Kevin, thanks for putting yourself out there🙏🤘

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Glad to have you “Back in da game!” @BethL 👏👏🤘

I’ve logged-in and played every day for the past 579 days😎 Does that make me “obsessive compulsive”?😱

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Hi @Powelly , hope you’re enjoying the FW2 course – it was full of goodies for me. The C shaped barre chord isn’t too hard to make. You’ll want to lay your index finger across the hiE, B & G strings, then place the middle finger 1 fret above the index on the B string. You’ll notice that right there at that point, you’re fretting a D chord shape with just those 2 fingers. Do a sound check with that D shape, if those 3 strings ring out clear, then you’re on the “home stretch” of making that C shaped barre chord. Finally, place the ring finger on the D string and the pinkie on the A string in that C chord form and viola, you have the C shaped barre chord.

Best of luck with making the different CAGED barre chord shapes😎

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