[Tomas]

Hi Sandy,

Great to have you here. Nice to know you like Spanish guitar along with acoustic guitar.

I look forward to encouraging you and supporting you.

Please don’t be shy about asking questions here in the community and hopefully adding some your experience as well. It helps everybody.

If you’re just getting started I’d recommend going through the Roadmap – Beginner’s Journey. That’s the most efficient way to get the basics.

Of course feel free to roam around an experiment.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Take care,

Tomas

P.S. I’ll also be adding new material constantly, so please let me know in the New Lesson And Courses section of this community anything you’d like to see here on Real Guitar Success.

[Tomas]

You got it. I’m just getting warmed up 🙂

[Tomas]

Hey Paul,

I find it often good to go back and tighten up the basics when you really want to make some progress.

On another note… There’s a section here in the community to request new lessons and courses. When you get time I love to hear some specific aspects of fingerstyle playing that you’d like to learn. You probably realize this is a favorite of mine and am itching to create more courses along those lines (already have a few in the course section). I just want to make sure I’m creating stuff that people want to learn. It helps to know the level also.

Thanks for participating Paul.

Tomas

[Tomas]

Hi Paul,

Welcome aboard! Good to have you as part of the class.

I’m looking forward to supporting you. Please feel free to ask questions or leave comments in the community.

You’ll find a lot of help here if you take the time to reach out.

Bye for now,

Tomas

[Tomas]

Hi Roxanne,
I’m not aware of a way to keep calluses going… At least not in the way you would want for playing guitar.

If it were me I’d probably be trying to figure out a way to practice anyway… Perhaps with a portable guitar, or even just the guitar neck.

Are there any possibilities along that line? Obviously I don’t know why you are not going to be able to practice so I couldn’t offer any suggestions there.

Tomas

[Tomas]

Hi Steve,

I was suggesting going through all three adventures three times.

This is one of the techniques I use to tackle new material. I go over it once quickly. The second time I go over it I try to raise the quality up a bit not perfect it. The third time I go through it and bring it up to they level I wanted to be.

This is often easier for me than trying to get it up to snuff the first time around.

You can use your judgment on this. If the first adventure was easy for you, wait to apply this strategy until he gets a little more demanding.

It’s a strategy for learning… Not a hard fast rule.

Tomas

[Tomas]

Time working on the mute (striking down with the pick and palming the strings at the same time) as a separate technique.

Then added back to the strum.

Once you’ve done that you may want to try using this five minute practice session to work on it some more: https://realguitarsuccess.com/lessons/c-g-with-mute-strum/

But only after you’ve worked on the technique by itself.

Tomas

[Tomas]

Hi Steve,

Let me know if this answers your question. I’m happy to keep trying until we get it 🙂

Watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av2HsSYUMPI

[Tomas]

Hi Steve,

Watch this…

 

 
https://www.useloom.com/share/6df112cdb5834062b8061df2c0a9af36
 

[Tomas]

Wow… Milos can really play. That’s the best version I’ve heard. Great sound.

Thanks,
Tomas

[Tomas]

Here’s a different version… very different style…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJr87w6dZ50

[Tomas]

Here’s a nice video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HLjXwf_cPQ

[Tomas]

Hi Jack,

Here’s a fingerstyle version of Stairway to Heaven. It looks like has the melody and you can download it: http://www.guitardownunder.com/_scores/stairway_to_heaven.php

Kinda cool!

Tomas

[Tomas]

This is great feedback Jack. Thank you so much for sharing this.

I second the idea of practicing for short periods with breaks. I’ve been doing that also because of my back and it has really helped. In fact my back is stronger and has less pain than it did five years ago even though I’m five years older.

Tomas

[Tomas]

Hi Pat,

Yes, that’s a common issue. You’ll likely find it even more of an issue when you get to the minor 7th chord.
It is partly strength, but also positioning the hand properly.
First I’ll recommend the you go back and work on the bar chord exercise that I teach in the course. Do it twice a day for a week… just 5 minutes or so each session. Listen to each of the notes as you do the exercise and work to get them to sound clear.

Here’s another version of it: http://www.tomasmichaud.com/heres-secret-learning-bar-chords-sunday-update-30/

Second, after you’ve done that for a week… do the same exercise everyday for another week with one change. Use the 7th form of the chord instead of just the bar.

Let me know how it goes.

Tomas

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