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Frustration
I'm usually pretty calm and relaxed while playing but today I've felt like smashing my guitar over someone's head. I guess that could be indicative of other issues as well It feels like it takes me forever to transition from a G barre to a B minor and I'm just not progressing at all. Also it appears I can't even translate tab to my fingers. I'm fingering chords according to it, just knowing there is a better way.
Just putting this out there to vent a little and for those other poor souls who might be getting a discouraged as well. |
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Would you like the annotated Pete Huttlinger tab now?
Muscle memory....it'll come with time
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Do you already have it done? I'd hate for you to go through the trouble just for me. If you don't mind though, I'd certainly use it
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Having said that, there's no guarantee that you'll like my fingerings better than your own. They were written for my own hands, after all
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(I can say that b/c I'm right there too!) .... on another site I have looked at before and still frequent, one important bit of advice I got was this...the quickest way to learn how to play fast is to play slowly! It takes time. Go slow. Get it right, even if you have to "pick and place" your own fingers. You'll be happy to find out just how rapidly your body will learn if you make sure to learn to NEVER play slopilly and make mistakes. Go slowly! I'm right there too. Jeremy .. who just last night said to his wife "Sometimes I think this thing takes up too much time" and gets frustrated fast and often. |
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I read an article recently that cited a study which said that in order to become a "champion"-level performer in anything required ten thousand hours of practice.
So if you practice three hours a day, five days a week, you're looking at 12.86 years to become Tommy Emmanuel or _____ (insert your favorite guitar genius here). Your actual mileage may vary. Now, to me, this is a sort of good news/bad news scenario. More than likely, I'm not going to become a Tommy Emmanuel. On the other hand, at this stage in life, I have a pretty good shot at becoming a good, maybe even a really good, guitar player, given the hours I've already logged, and the hours I am now playing every day. On the other other hand, right now it does seem to take me a long long time to learn what I considered to be a medium-difficult song. And yeah, it can be frustrating, but that's when I examine my routine in reference to "flow". I've posted before regarding "flow", so I won't go into it again here. But it's a good thing to know about: "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. As a side note, the article I read was about a Buddhist monk and how he is able to affect changes in his brain via meditation; the article said that the monk had probably "logged" fifty thousand hours of meditation. That's some serious discipline right there. (There are 8,765 hours in a year). The really good news about playing guitar (in my opinion) is that there are many, many levels at which playing guitar can be enjoyable and life-enhancing - that's why it's such a popular instrument. |
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Play Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" through a hundred times.
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I don't think Pete would appreciate me posting his tab for everyone to see so....email sent, Fingerstylist
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I would have to discount my own total hours rather heavily to reflect the time spent goofing off and noodling. |
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I guess I'm confused unless this is a tongue in cheek thing.... Why on earth would you want Peter Hutlinger tabs if your having trouble transitioning from a G barre to B minor chord??? Sounds like you may need to stick with the basics for a while...?? I don't do tabs, that is enough to frustrate me.
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Great advice for developing barre chord strength!!! (and changing from that G to Bm you mentioned)
Might want to make it a thousand times, though. Can't hurt!!
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Thanks for the help MMM! |
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Which song of Pete's is it? I have one of his collections, maybe I can help too.
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