[Bill_Brown]

31 seconds of pure joy @Philb 🤩🤩🤩 and the girl you were playing sounded great, what’s her name🤔? Wonderful rendition😎

[Bill_Brown]

Hi @J.Dubs , Welcome to TAC.

I think you’re referring to the “Quick Draw” chord fretting exercises where Tony counts down from 5 to 0 and you have to fret and strum the particular chord by 0. Those are old videos from before the last format change (March 2021). All of the older lessons used to have 3 videos, each at a different speed (in this case they had 3 videos that started the count down at different numbers – 5,3 & 1). In the current format, there is now a speed icon as @Philb is referring to which allows you to change the speed of the video and thus the timing. However, in the case of these “Quick Draw” lessons, the speed icon is not of any help because it doesn’t work out mathematically from the 5 to 3 to 1 counts. So the best thing to do is use the video at normal (1x) speed and wait until the count down reaches 3 and then 1 to start the process of fretting and strumming the chords. These are great exercises for learning to fret chords. I still use it today to practice fretting chords that I’m not familiar with or don’t use often enough and need to be able to transition into quickly.

Good luck and enjoy the journey😎

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So sweet @Loraine 🤩👏👏 Great rendition👍👍 I think your timing was smooth😎 and even though you felt tension😱, you performed cool as a cucumber🥒

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Looks like you got a new leather chair @Daniel_Morin 👀. Oh yea, that was an awesome tune👏🤩👏 just like everything else you play👍👍 That was fun to jam along with too – trying to do some improv along with your tune – lots of fun. Thanks Daniel, I enjoyed playing with you!😎

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Excellent playing @ted_h 👏🤩👏 Beautiful mix as well👍👍

[Bill_Brown]

Wonderful rendition @ScottyMac 👏🤩👏 It was so nice, I listened twice👍👍

[Bill_Brown]

The circle of life @KevinZ 🤔 a heart felt performance👏👏👏 Thanks for posting – all of your performances this month have brought tears to my eyes – evoking great emotions. I hope all is well with you and your parents – I know that you’re doing all you can to take care of them👍

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Hi @GuitarGeni , I watched the AT show this afternoon and the understanding that I came away with was that he’ll be giving a slide lesson on the AT show next week. So it won’t be any Daily Challenges featuring bottle neck stuff, just whatever he presents on the AT show🤔

[Bill_Brown]

Hi @Philb , sorry to hear about your wrist – this getting old crap is for the birds. I was doing some research on the fingers and hand a few weeks ago when I came across this:

https://eorthopod.com/hand-anatomy/

Maybe it can help you isolate the area of concern and maybe give you a better understanding of what you’re dealing with.

Good luck and hope you feel better soon👍

[Bill_Brown]

Nicely done @charlie_d 👏🤩👏 Some beautiful melodies👍👍😎

[Bill_Brown]

That was a wonderful rendition @Marisa 👏🤩👏 A great performance👍👍 Finger picking on the electric sounded awesome and the empty room acoustics went well with the overall “tone” of the number😎

[Bill_Brown]

@GuitarGeni , I’m sorry to hear that things aren’t going well for you at this time. I hope you will continue to be a voice in our guitar journeys through the Forums as well as the postings in the daily challenges. What you have to say has weight. Hope you feel better soon 👍

[Bill_Brown]

Sweet improv @Jonathandavid 👏🤩👏 Playing outside of the box (and within), you have shown a wonderful path for others to follow👍👍😎

[Bill_Brown]

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