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Welcome to the TAC community! Great job. You do the hammer ons really well. Rang out clear. You have great hand eye coordination.
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Welcome to the TAC community!
I have to agree that the C chord gives many people problems initially. You didn’t mention exactly what you’re having difficulty with. If I had to guess it would be that your ring finger is interfering with you playing a clean D string. That is usually the issue most have. First, make sure your wrist is pushed as far forward as it can to cause your fingers to go into an automatic arc and force the fingers to play on the tip of your fingers. Next, place your fingers as you normally would. Play each string individually. Which string is muted? Look at your fingers to see how they are placed. Is your ring finger slightly touching the D string, thus muting it. There’s an easy fix. The low E (6th string or string at the top of the neck) is not in the C chord. That is why you strum from the A string. So, it’s okay to move your ring finger up towards the low E. In fact, you can cover part of it. Now try playing each string individually again. Did that clear up the problem?
If it’s a different issue, just let us know. There’s always someone that can answer a question or help with something. You can also take a photo of your hand and send that to be looked at.
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Woo hoo, happy 6th TACiversary!! I appreciate you always being there for me and for others. It’s been nice to be on this journey with you and it’s good to see someone that still causes it a TACiversary like I do. I still can’t finger pic though.
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I didn’t dabble a day in my life until I came to TAC. But I’ve been coming now for several years, and I still Love the hell out of playing guitar and I still play every day I’m not a great player I’m not musically talented and I have the worst vocals in the world but I have fun and that’s all I care about so if you’re having fun just keep doing what you’re doing.
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Well done! I’m envious of your long fingers. They’ll be your savior with guitar.
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This was absolutely beautiful @davidw99 !
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@BarbaraM it’s great that you wanna play with others because you will grow as a guitarist doing so. When searching on meet up make sure you’re not just looking locally because a lot of them are done online now through Zoom and you don’t have a delay on there as long as you have original sound for musicians on so search for virtual open mics, song circles, another plays on words. Try typing and just acoustic guitar. I found several that way.
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Awesome job! I knew the song immediately. It sounds beautiful on that guitar. Keep at it, and you’ll have it down in no time!
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Hi Artie I have to agree with all the other comments I want to add a few. Sorry, I tend to write a lot.
Many people don’t think that you’ll learn much in 10 minutes and that’s not true. You’ll actually advance faster than you will if you continue to work something over and over and over. I find that even now when I’m learning or practicing something. If I sit there and try to play it multiple, multiple times I find them getting worse and worse and worse, and I get more frustrated as time goes by. The fun has just been sucked out of me. It’s better to stop long before you get to that point.
So for <font face=”inherit”>lessons, going through the lesson tutorial, you should mark it complete after you e gone through it the first time. You can continue to work on it, but the goal is to introduce you to a functional aspect of playing guitar through tools such </font>as scales, improv, and learning pieces of a song to show you how those skills transition into being used in a song. So during a lesson, give it your best go . When the video ends, mark the lesson complete. Continue practicing, if you like. I wouldn’t do more than an extra 10 minutes or so. <font face=”inherit”> Give it a good go, but don’t get hung up on it. you to give a good go, but don’t get hung up on it. Definitely move on the next day and forget about the day before. As mentioned already, you will get another go around on that lesson in a few months to see your improvement, but a particular skill can be used in multiple lessons. </font>
<font face=”inherit”>What is really interesting to observe is that the minimum 10 minutes a day done day after day allows your finger dexterity to improve, your ability to fret and transition faster through building what is called muscle memory, your guitar knowledge and vocabulary will expand, you’ll venture out to try the skills in songs and improve further. It will seem less arduous as you continue to learn. </font>
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I’M RETAPING, BECAUSE i DIDN’T REALIZE HOW FAST I PLAYED IT.
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Welcome to the TAC community, and congratulations on completing the 30 days to play! Don’t forget to take the Next 6 Chords and Stretching (can’t stress enough how important this is to avoid injury). Sounds like you’re doing great and jumped right into the dailies. Check out the Skills courses. This is your journey, so make it what you want. Have fun!
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Agree with the others. This your journey. I take it you have some experience with the guitar already. Most finish the 30 days to play, the next 6 chords, the 5 day quick start, and possibly the barre chord skills course. I always, always suggest the stretching course. I got tendonitis in the forearm and tennis elbow. I had to stop playing for nearly 8 months for it to heal. Most will start the daily challenge and do skills courses as they have time.
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You’re welcome. I completely relate to the issue with a broken hand wrist not healing properly. I fell extremely hard in Philadelphia the 1st week of October 2024. I broke my wrist in 3 places and dislocated in 4. I’ve had 2 surgeries already, and the surgeons not happy with how the plate is pushing upward. It’s causing a lot of pain across the top of hand and base of fingers. I had arthritis in my thumb before the,fall, but it is much worse now. I have the larger bone on the outer part of my wrist, that is sticking up and is very painful. Surgeon said it is displace from the force of the fall, and he thinks it will go down on its own. He did say that playing guitar has really helped with dexterity.
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It’s simply an iconic song, because of Judy Garland. Check out Eric’s video. Mine is much more Judy Garland than Clapton. Sign of the era we grew up in.
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Thank you very much Artie!