Loraine
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Hi @LisaH Youve had a rough go of it the past 2 months. Give yourself some much needed patience and TLC. You’ve just been put through the wringer. You may have to backtrack a bit, but from my experience you should come up to speed in a short time.
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Hi @AnneN and welcome to TAC and the community! If you have little or no experience with the guitar, I would recommend starting with the 30 days to play.
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Sounds great @Marisa ! New song for me, but your performance was great.
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Happy NGD, and welcome back @SWeissman013 ! Sounds like you’re off and running!
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Great win Jacquelyn – Yes, definitely stretch as much and often as possible, especially with arthritis. It may actually help with it. I have bad tennis elbow and tendinitis right now in my fretting arm, and I think it’s because I wasn’t stretching enough.
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Nice to hear that you already knew the chords Jacquelyn – That’s 80% of the battle right there.
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Those are some great wins @Elaine !
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Well that’s the jelly in my doughnut to learn that @That_Guy ! Glad you’ll still have access to FBW and the forums @Robert_Gresham !
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That’s a tough one when we have to admit defeat and realize the guitar we thought we’d love wasn’t right for us. I have 2 such guitars right now. Beautiful guitar, and I’d love to here her @Cadgirl . May you have many playing hours together.
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Nice win @Stickmaker – Don’t give up on the barre chords – Keep practicing them, and you’ll find that sweet spot sometime down the road, and you may find you’ll like playing them there barres!
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@Guitargeezer-Jack That’s a definite win taking the toolbox course and meeting a 90 day goal – Congrats! You’re doing great – keep it up!
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Great win @Duane58 – Keep on plunking
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Hi Terry, I think strumming is difficult (who woulda thunk), and I took Tonys Jumstart to Strumming in the Skills section, and I watched videos on YouTube and other music videos found online and really paid attention to how guitarists held their picks and that most strumming is done with a light touch (even though it sounds as if they’re hitting the strings hard). Granted, some guitarists definitely play hard and rough. I also found sites that had strumming patterns and I muted the strings with my fretting hand and simply practiced strumming without playing a song. I would start with quarter notes – just a down strum on each count. Then I put in the half notes (up strums)., and so on. That was probably the biggest help when learning to strum. Simply deadhead strumming, as I call it. Good luck with it.
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That’s pretty much what you do with improv @Stickmaker – take the scale and just play around with it, embellish it, incorporate pretty much whatever you want to create your own composition while using the backing track. Great win, btw!
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@Himleyn I may be mistaken, but I believe an open chord strikes strings that aren’t fretted, thus open. A closed chord plays only strings that are fretted