Loraine
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Congrats on completing the 30 days to play and the next 6 chords Mitchell. I do suggest the daily challenges. They’re a great way to be introduced to many different types of playing and foundational skills. You’ll get your 10 minutes per day in by doing the dailies. Other than that, I would suggest looking in the Skills section at all the courses and possibly choosing one that interests you. I began the Skills courses by taking the Jumpstart to Fingerpicking, Jumpstart to Flatpicking, and Jumpstart to Strumming. They gave a really good introduction into those skills. Good luck and I hope your enjoy all the courses.
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That’s a great win @Jeff73 ; building finger strength & dexterity.
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Great accomplishment and win @stevieblues ! 300 will be here before you know it.
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I would love to share pictures of the same phenomenon, but I live alone, and my dog has trouble holding the phone or camera to take pictures. On a more serious note, I’ll see if I can’t find a way to get a photo. I’ve been on playing sabbatical for a while due to tennis elbow and tendinitis in my fretting arm. Very debilitating, but after quite a few acupuncture sessions and a shot of cortisone from the Ortho, I was given the green light to try and play again. I noticed that my fingers, hands and arm are much more tense, and my fingers do not have the same reach as before the injury, so I guess if you don’t continue to play and do the exercises your muscles and tendons become tight again. Starting slow, and I can’t agree more that you need to stretch before and after playing to avoid injury, especially if you’re really stretching out those fingers. When the fingers are stretched, a lot of tension is placed on the forearm tendons. Also, you’re right, the more you play, the more your hands and fingers limber up and stretch out, keep up the great work @albert_d !
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That it so awesome @trish91 – Congrats! It’s amazing how quickly that counter goes up when we’re consistent. You ARE a guitar player, and yes it is a lifelong quest, but you’ll experience many moments of wins throughout that journey.
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@Cadgirl I have a few guitars in alternate tunings that I just use for those tunings. It gets tiresome changing tuning all the time (and forgetting to tune it back to standard tuning when done & wondering why nothing sounds right when I pick it back up). It is a truly great win!
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I keep meaning to go through the 5 day challenge (that’s one of the newer skills courses), and maybe now I’ll commit to it. Great win on your commitment within TAC @Guitargeezer-Jack !
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Hi @Noncenx The trick is to very lightly place your hand or fingers over the strings to create the muted effect. The harder you fret, the more string notes will chime out, so ease up a bit until they’re muted.
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@Notn2bars Welcome to the TAC community!
That’s what they refer to as the bluegrass G chord. It’s just another way of making a G chord
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That’s a great win @Duane58 ! The first time is daunting, but now you know how to do it, and it’ll be a breeze next time. It’s like having a new guitar when strings are replaced.
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@aisenstadt@msn.com Glad you posted, because I love when I hear of success playing some of the old song vault songs. I haven’t tried Deep River Blues yet. You’ll have to share a video with us once you’ve learned it. Nice overall win!
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😪😠 I’ll definitely regret writing this, but I’m in that kind of mood today. I agree it doesn’t feel like home anymore, and we’ve lost so many of what I would call old timers – so much knowledge and skill are gone from TAC. The forums are so antiseptic now, and there isn’t an easy way to see and read them and the comments are sincere mostly, but the chat is difficult to navigate (having to scroll all the way to the end, not knowing which comments have already been seen, and banter is gone, which made the forums so successful and fun to read all the comments, and there were so many more topics to post in, and beginners or new TACers introduced themselves and we immediately welcomed them. <div>
<div>Anyway @Marty69 see what happens when I’m set loose too? I just really really miss the old TAC, and we’ve given this one a chance, but it is so bland, not very fun, and there is little comradry and little sense of accomplishment, joy, and just pretty blah.</div><div>
</div><div>Okay, I’m done. It felt good to get that out of my system. Now back to finding the good and positive, which is easier to deal with.</div></div> -
🤣😂 Unfortunate, huh?
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It is a tricky one @Moonhare . I say keep posting unless you hear directly from TAC that it’s not permitted. I probably wouldn’t have been called out on it, but I was receiving an error and took a screenshot to show Support. That is when they made the comment to me that it was against the Rules of Behavior. They probably wouldn’t have found out otherwise, unless they were policing every comment on the forums, which would be too onerous.
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No hurt feelings – probably won’t completely stop me (short term memory loss) 😉