Hi. my fingers tell me one thing, but the chord pattern tells me something else.

A, D, E. I play A B E Dflat, E

G C D. I play G B D G B G. I must be missing a concept here. There is no C

E A B. I play E B E Aflat B E

C F G I play C E G C E. No F.

I’m looking forward to thoughts. I am not a music theorist and am learning all the time. I…

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I have never recorded before, so I really am not sure what to ask. Having thought about it though, and reading about it at Sweetwater, I wonder if your experience recording using a headset to listen to yourself gives useful feedback ? I started to think if I did use an amp while recording, it might give a bit of unwanted feedback being so…

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Hi Tomas,

I watched your latest RGS Live and appreciate you for talking about different recording options for my practice sessions. Thanks for putting that together for me and everyone else.

I am also looking at a small amplifier for my acoustic guitar. It does have a built in pick up and I’d like to see how that sounds as well as have the…

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Bar Chords !!!  I finally can reliably play an F chord quick enough to play a song.  It took quite awhile to get there, but I did.  Now, the Bm bar is coming along as well, just need to pick up speed.   I also kept at the finger picking lesson for ‘Landslide’ and now able to play the song almost completly.  I still have trouble going to the D,… Read more

Thanks Jack.  I am enjoying the lessons for sure.  I like Tomas’ style of teaching too.

Richard

I’m Richard.  I’ve been in and out (mostly out) of playing guitar for over 40 years.  4 years ago, my daughter and I wanted to learn together, so I picked it back up again.  I’ve been staying with it, have callouses to prove it, and don’t seem to be moving ahead as I would like.  I thought I’d give this structured course a try, and am looking… Read more