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There were some Spanish undertones in the improv. I liked your use of the entire neck and the incorporation of the scale. Nice job @charlie_d !
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@Brian2501 I really enjoy hearing about your wins in sounding out different songs. Great skill to have.
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One of your best @Jonathandavid ! Sounded great.
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Welcome to the TAC community @JustinRigdon ! I like how you hit the ground running. Enjoy the 30 days to play, and let us know if you have any questions or continue to post your #smallwins! Have fun with it.
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Hi Val, a pick has different purposes and benefits depending on the song. Much of what you learn on TAC is either fingerpicking or flatpicking, and there are many times the type of music is what determines fingers or picks. Not every song is strummed. It is often much faster to flatpicking using alternate pick direction than fingers, and there are songs that can’t physically be done correctly without a pick.
This is your journey, so you choose how you want to approach the lessons and learning. I personally prefer the pick for strumming, as well as hybrid playing (mix of picking and strumming). I also enjoy learning all the different ways of playing.
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Welcome to the TAC community @Desmoteque ! As for how to practice the 30 days to play lessons, my suggestion is to take a lesson and practice it a day or two, then mark it complete and move onto the next lesson. The goal is not for perfection, but for progress. You could mark each lesson complete after playing the minimum 10 minutes. This is your journey, and the 30 days is only meant to be a suggestion. You can take as little or as much time as you like on a lesson. Just remember to keep moving forward and not get stuck on a lesson because you haven’t mastered it. You’ll find that if you have some difficulties on a particular lesson that moving on is the best thing you can do. You may find that when you go back to the lesson that all of a sudden you’re able to play it with little difficulty. Good luck and have fun with it.
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Hi Melvin – Hope you’re doing well. Since Tony might be unable to respond directly, I’d like to welcome you to the TAC community. It sounds to me as if you’re doing a great job with the lessons, and Im sure you’re exactly where you’re meant to be at any given moment. We”re all on individual journeys, some similtar but many different from each other. As long as you’re able to practice at least 10 minutes per day at a minimum, then you are progressing. How quickly or how slowly is each individual’s personal journey. Keep doing what you’re doing!
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@OhWowMan You can take the course whenever the spirit moves you since you own it for life. As for changes, it’ll be interesting to see what they are once they eventually roll out the updates. As for the live interactions, Tony does this typically twice a year when Fretboard Wizard is opened up for new registrants and a group goes through it at the same time. The live aspect has to do with Q&A’s that he does live. That being said, you can begin the course now and revisit portions prior to the live parties, or you can wait to go through it with a group of people.
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Hi @YukonGuitarist and welcome to the TAC community!
As for the speeds, some of the older lessons used to have 3 tempos shown in separate videos. Now they are all done the same. IF you look at the bottom right of the practice videos, you should see a 1x. If you click on that, then you can change the speed of the videos for practicing. Typically, 1x is the slower speed, and 2x is the faster one, but often you may need to click on .50 or another speed to begin practicing and then work your way to the higher speeds.
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Nice win @Skyman . It’s always nice when there have been some challenging ones to have one that comes easier to us. Sort of like resetting ourselves.
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Never had any doubt that you’d get there @Stickmaker . Great big ol’ win!
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Hey @ping, I would definitely replace it when it shows wear. Have a bowl of picks that you can choose from, and discard damaged or worn ones. It’s pretty difficult to damage a pick, so you must be playing a lot and very heavily.
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Hey @OhWowMan You own it regardless of whether you maintain your TAC membership. You’ll still be able to access it.
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@Ping The pick appears to show excessive wear from heavy picking/strumming, which would indicate that you are being too heavy handed. I have this tendancy too, just not to the extreme that your pick appears to show. When picking or strumming, the pick tip should lightly hit the strings. You’ll still get the sound from the strings with a lighter touch. Imagine a feather brushing a string. I would definitely say it’s time for a new pick. 🙂
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Awesome @Ping – Glad it worked out.