Loraine
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@Moonhare He’s back!! So good to hear you again Darren! Fantastic rendition of a great classic, with a few spins. Loved the slides, the triads, the fingerpicking. Keep ‘em coming! I have such a difficult time taking what ai learn in the lessons and applying it to an original or a rendition of another song. All I know is I’ve gotten better, but I can’t pretend to be at the same level as you.
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@the-old-coach I love your songs, because they speak to me so often about my own life and journey to where I’m at. Wonderful chord progression and lyrics.
How do you determine the chords and tun you want for a song? The music always matches up to the lyrics so well.
Keep ‘em coming!
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@MMMURRAY Congrats on the new guitar. I’ve heard good things about the Zagers. As for Poeer Chirds, Tony teaches the 3 nite version if Poeer Chirds. I’ve always used thr 2 note version, e hich consists of the 2 lowest strings. Its okay to simply do the 2 finger way
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@ana-s Great question, that I’m at a loss to answer. I don’t recall there being a tutorial on TAC. But as you said, you can always Google tuning. The tunings are E A D G B E. The bottom string is the 1st string; Then 2nd, 3rd up to the 6th string at the top. The 1st string is the high E, while the 6th is the low E. The top tuning pegs loosen and tighten the 4th theough the 6th strings ( D, A, Low E). The bottim 3 control the 1st through the 3tf strings (High E, B, G).
Using the Snark, you play the string until the arrows are centered.
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@ScottyMac Ah, the good ol’ days! Nicely done!
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Hi @ryanbrucexhotmail-com Thats a question we hear often when a new month begins. The only way is to find someone with the lesson saved in their favorites (or if you had saved it in your favorites). You’ll need to know the name of the lesson to search in others favorites. I copy the monthly lesson contents every month. I can share it with you, if that will help you determine which lesson you need to go back to. It is saved on a different computer, so it will be a bit before I can share it. Then you can find the lesson in someone’s favorites (I typically save them all – go to my profile and favorites).
Someone else mentioned that you can use the gray arrows to go back, but my understanding is that it doesn’t go to the previous month.
Please note that when responding to a particular person, be sure to use the ampersand and their name. Click on them when the pop up shows. Such as @Loraine if responding to me. Then you would choose me when the pop up showed up, and it would place a hyoerlink in orange in the message. This is the only way someone will know you’re Addressing a reply to them. They’ll get a notification at the Bell looking icon that someone has mentioned them in a comment.
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@mshain007gmail-com I agree 100% with @moose . Practice for a minimum 10 minutes and mark it complete. It doesn’t mean that you can’t practice it longer, just that you completed the lesson. The focus of TAC is on progression rather than perfection. Your skills will improve over time, and all the lessons rotate back around usually within 8-9 months. You’ll be able to see your improvement. I don’t think any of us master the weekly lessons, but we’re all giving it a go and getting better as we do.
Welcome to the TAC community.
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@kurt99 Late to the party as usual. Agree with the other comments. When searching members, it is always better to search on the broadest term. Not only searching using the state within the state, but I’ve often found that searching by typing the state in Other gives me better results, because it is searching within the verbiage in the profile then. It would be nice if the search showed the location of the person in the results. That would save a lot of time and headaches.
I too have found jams through meetup.com.
There are open mics all over, and they’re great ways of meeting other guitarists. If not comfortable playing, you can still go and listen and talk to other players.
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I agree, a travel guitar will still allow you to travel light, and why break the momentum? Once hooked, keep at it and have fun!
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@bluesnbrews (love the moniker, btw) – welcome to the TAC community! I suggest going through the 30 days to play, next 6 chords, 5 days skills course, stretching, and then start on the daily challenges. If you’re able to supplement the daily challenges, then …. Feel free to take Fretboard Wizard and any of the other skills courses that you want;
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Another option is to bypass the daily challenges while you take FBW. This will allow you to give sufficient time and focus to the course.
This is your journey, and you can mold it however you want.
If you have little or absolutely no experience on the guitar, I suggest following what I outlined above. If you have been playing guitar for a while, then you could actually jump into FBW anytime you feel you could give it the focus necessary and not get too bogged down by taking it with other courses.
Good luck with it, and have fun!
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@Sigi I think it’s great that you thought of taking classes at the community college and that they would allow you to play with others. I’m not comfortable playing with others, but I go to local jams at friends, and there are a few TAC members that we’ve agreed to get together locally when the time is right. You challenged yourself, and look at you – playing in an ensemble concert! That would have been so terrifying to me, but you did it and now I’m envious. Do you have a video of the concert? I would love to see it. Anyway, congrats!
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@Kayakgirl I think it is more stretching rather than strength building that you are asking about. First things first, always stretch before and after playing, especially if you’ll née the stretch like todays lesson. And don’t feel bad, it’s difficult for many of us. Your stretch will get better just from playing, but it takes a while. The type of stretching agony is doing is more drastic. Three things are important, stretch before and after, 2) don’t force a stretch.. you could pull muscles or tendons, and those can be debilitating. I had to hang my guitar up nearly 6 months from tendonitis and tennis elbow, which happened 2 Christmases ago when doing a song with very wide stretches. 3) There are exercises you can do.
One exercise I’ve used is to place pinky of fretting hand on the 8th fret. Leave that finger on the 8th fret and the place your index on the 7th, lift the index, place it on the 6th, lift the index and place it on the 5th. Do that until you can do it effortlessly while your pinky remains in the 8th fret and the index lands well within the 5th. Then move down a fret with your pinky to the 7th and do the same thing with the index to the 4th fret. And keep going. Do gentle stretches, not forced. You’ll be able to stretch further and further.
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@Sigi Very cool – thanks for sharing. I wish I could hav seen everybody’s hands. Was there a piano leading? Or was that someone actually playing the song the entire way through, and everyone playing their,part at different sections? It must be very difficult to get that many people to play in sync. Great job!