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@JeffK It seems to me that you’re referring to the Skills courses, and not the daily lessons, correct? I know some new ones wee added in the past 2-3 years. Those are the foundational skills that probably cover a lot of what you’ll need outside of the daily challenges that teach scales, functional skills etc., and yes repetition and becoming better with each go around of the dailies leads to improvement. Have you tried the old TAC Song Vault. That might give you some added challenges. It’s not included in the current TAC, and it was put on a more public site for those that originally paid for it, but it is often shared with everyone now,
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Great wins! Keep at it, and next time the song comes along, I guarantee youll see the improvement. Take some videos for comparison tpwhen the benchmark songs come around the next time. Keep up the great work.
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Great wins! I love reading the progression.
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Had me laughing and smiling Kevin! Lots of fun!
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Sounds like a great win @dmac53 !
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Welcome back @MiguelC ! Great win, and I’m sure your guitar was happy.
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You’re referring to the song vault, correct? It’s there, but it’s confusing trying to find it. Here’s screenshots of what to do.
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It starts on this coming Monday
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I enjoyed this. You definitely have a knacck for melody and words that speak to the soul. That’s how I hear and see music. I feel it within my soul and it resonates through my body and I find myself often smiling, laughing, crying, and reminiscing about something experienced in life. I’m a very emotional person and feel very deeply. It sounds like you do to.
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Such a great song, and you’d give Chris Stapleton a good run for his money!
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Louis, Thank you for that information. I think that when we first begin playing, we realize our fingers often don’t work like we want them to. Several share tendons, To teach your fingers to move individually, Try moving up the neck a few frets.
Just using the high E, start with your index finger and then your middle finger. Keep your index down on the same fret for this, and place your middle finger on the fret next to it, then lift it (keep your index down) and move the middle finger to the next fret, then lift it straight up and move it over to the next fret, and continue as far as you can. Don’t stretch to the point of injury, but challenge yourself. Next, move on and do the same exact thing with your ring finger. Again, leave the index down. Lift straight up, move the finger over to the next fret and place it down. Continue with the pinky.
Next, keep your middle finger down. Do the same as you did before. The only difference will be the index will go the opposite direction that the other fingers.
Next keep the ring finger down, and lastly the pinky.
This will stretch your fingers and will also teach digit/finger independence. You’ll have to keep doing it for a while, but it will help with your issue. As you’re able to do this further, then none back up the neck a few frets and start again.
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thank you for the photo. I have family in Nova Scotia but they’re not French speaking but many times we were up in Montreal and Quebec and it was a lot of friends from my other guitar forums that live in Quebec..
From the picture, it appears that you might be muting the D string is that correct?? it appears that your finger is flattened more than curved and up and down and that’s the pad of your finger might be muting the string. Let me know if that’s what you’re experiencing.. if that is the case it’s not too difficult of a fix first. I would suggest that you move your wrist forward and it automatically curves your fingers more.. and if you simply take that ring finger and move it up a little away from the D string you shouldn’t have a problem. You don’t play that low string the top string there when you’re playing the sea chord. The route note of a sea string is the A, so you strum from the A down so you’re not hitting that top E at all so you can mute that string move your finger up and to where it’s not infringing on the D string.
You can type in French, and we can use a translator, and vice versa. I’m making a suggestion to TAC to consider making a translator available for non English speaking or where it is a secondary language. I’m sure you’re not the only person that could benefit from it. @VictoriaTACTeam @Tpolecastro
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@Fletch That’s exactly what a great poet writes about — his own inner struggles. My favorite poet is Hugh Prather. His poetry, beginning with I Touch the Earth, The Earth touches Me was the best. It was such a refreshing poetry of his inner struggles and questions about things. I was given the book at age 10, which I’m sure was simply because someone didn’t vet the material as appropriate for a10 y.o. But it was such a relief to find someone’s writings and questioning that I could relate too. I understood the underlying emotion, anger , joy, sadness, happiness, etc. Poetry’s funny. It either sells or it doesn’t until you’re dead. A coffee table book is such a cool thing to find in homes. They often are ice breakers for discussions. I have a friend that I’ve been suggesting she put together a coffee table photo book with stories. The photos are of her and her husband posing with typically older hats or wigs together. They’re hysterical, and are fun to look at.
Another option is a website that can either be affiliated with SWR. Simply title it Poetry or SWR Lyrics/Poetry, written by you. .
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Jeff,I still can’t play because of broken wrist. I have a second surgery in a week.