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did not know about it til I saw this that would have been cool

appreciate all the thoughts and feedback. I see I left out a minor detail...or perhaps the most important one...

these are for songs my Dad wrote but did not record and several people will...

One of the things I consistently try to do, particularly when learning a new piece, is fire up the metronome. I get fairly good at playing the timing but has been discussed ad nauseum here and...

appreciate all the feedback and some great stuff in there. As it turns out...I actually have lost so much motion in the left hand I cannot spread the fingers far enough to practice at all. I can only...

Have been struggling with my left hand getting weaker, finally went to the doc and it makes sense. pinched nerve. my sudden inability to fret any notes now makes sense. It is literally so weak I...

lot of truth there. chords for me are the second most difficult thing right behind learning by ear. It may be psychosomatic, but I can do neither. chords are work, and not good work, and hard to get...

appreciate the responses. Parsing them, it seems mostly people are recreating what is there to train ears if I interpret it correctly?

I have not made myself look like a completely incompetent know-nothing blowhard for 5 or 6 minutes...lets fix that.

Many instruments, people say to learn it they "listen to a song and play along...

and here I was going to say,

"Well, bring a dozen flowers, possibly with a batch of finger picks. Go for a picnic by the lake and soon the instrument will be all yours" but apparently that is not...

Portland in no way, shape or form resembles PDX of 82. The influx of people from California and Colorado in particular but also from many other areas has fundamentally changed the look and feel of...

your mileage may vary but...I have 3 GCs within 30 miles. One is a 5 minute drive. I go there quite often. There are a few truths about guitar centers:
1) they have high turnover. it is commission...

my Dad was a master at modifying stuff with cheap/discarded materials..there were times his wind screen/pop filter was literally a sock on the microphone. And it did a very serviceable job.

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I note a lot of people use Audacity, I had always heard it had a really steep learning curve, is that accurate?

there has been a good deal of research that brains re-wire themselves, creating new connections based on their experiences, interests, and training. If that is accurate, it is beneficial to be in a...

here is why it matters. My Dad is 73, his memory is slipping and his gullibility increasing. He has a Taylor guitar, and at some point had some bills coming due. instead of telling us kids, he went...

this this this so much this. I have a friend and, to a lesser extent, my Dad, constantly pushing the learn by ear/hear it in your head and play that whereas I am working hard to learn scales,...

Hey, you played with my Dad...he is notorious for that. I love him, very close to him, but will NOT take lessons from him for that exact reason. Typical session:

"Okay, play this run up, then this...

look at the bright side. If they put the video up on you tube or play it for their friends at Chuck E Cheese, ASCAP and Co will be all over them for copyright violation per two concurrent threads :-)...

had not seen this before, feel free to change me to Drew Barton
thanks

there is a theory where, on another site I frequent, they have a "21 day challenge", the idea to play a speed you can play perfectly, no faster, no slower, for 21 days, then go to your desired speed,...

Part of my initial thought was I saw the barre form was moveable and sadly was trying shortcut. We all know in music shortcuts are not a real thing...it always makes sense to learn correctly. But...

ah, but you probably have something I will forever lack...talent :-)
I get by on dogged determination and repetition. I was laughing as last Sunday was visiting Dad, picked up a guitar he had laying...

no worries at all man, not condescending in the least. I am well aware of my shortcomings and I think one of the posters may have hit the nail on the head...when I practice, I follow the "play it...

appreciate all the feedback I will work on these things.

A little background that may or may not be helpful in defining my problem, will put a TL:DR version below

My Dad had a traveling group for years and along the way they wrote a bunch of songs....