Welcome Louis. It’s great to have you here.

Ciao,

My name is Louis Pullano. I am from NY but have lived and traveled all over Spain. I play classical guitar and love anything Flamenco style. I consider Andalucia my second home.

Hi Robin,
Here’s a link to The Real Guitar Live where I answer that question: https://realguitarsuccess.com/learn/why-your-guitar-strumming-sounds-choppy-and-how-to-fix-it-ep105/

Hi Robin,

Thanks for sending in such a thoughtful question. It’s a great one and it’s something many guitar players run into at some point — so I’d love to give it the attention it deserves.

I’ve added your question to today’s Real Guitar Live session, where I can walk through it step by step, demonstrate it on the guitar, and share a few…

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I still struggle to get all my left hand fingers on a chord (G or C, for example) at the same time. I’m afraid it has become a habit to get maybe 2 fingers working together, but the remaining fingers are late. Any ideas on how I can break this bad habit and train my fingers to work together better?

Hello Saundra,

Thanks for the note – no pun intended! I’ve just finished my practice for the day. I’m following Tomas’s tip to only do a little at a time and so I never play for more than about 20mins. It’s paying off. Somehow, shreds of old music theory and muscle memory are coming back and I’m starting to see a bit of progress. Hope…

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Hello Sally from London. I am in California on the coast. I played oboe in my early years. I grew up in a classical music family. I love reading music, but I always wanted to sing and play guitar- right out of the 70s. I started 6 years ago. I could not find anybody to learn from and so I started with classical style once again. I have the…

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Just wanted to say hello. I’m Sally, and I work full-time as a Co-Founder in a Creative Agency. Work is often long days, busy, with lots of demanding clients. I picked up my guitar again after (maybe 20 years?) to have a place to switch off. Long, long before that I played a little Spanish guitar as a young teenager and some chords around…

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Hi Gary. Welcome aboard! Thanks for sharing a little about yourself. I look forward to supporting you and encouraging you.

Hi Shulamit,

Thanks for sharing your work. It’s really interesting to hear how you moved from just the melody, to melody with chords, and then to the AI-generated version of the full song. I’d love to hear a version with you fingerpicking the chords and melody together if that’s something you’re planning.

Keep going Gary .it will come to you .im a tomas student 2 x and i have learned a ton. Im also 70 yrs old Never too old to learn.good luck..paul

My name is Gary. I’m from Denver and age 74. This is my second attempt to learn guitar. I have gone to a Martin small body guitar with a setup of softer strings and strings lowered to fret board. I play competively tennis and table tennis and 2 people I play with perform at small venues and are willing to help. I get frustrated playing C…

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In the last live session, I asked about how to add to chords to melody notes of a song that I wrote and Tomas gave a thorough explanation. So, I have recorded: 1) playing just the melody notes 2) playing the song with the chords.

In addition, I made an AI cover of the song so you can hear the complete composition.

Also I wrote out the tab and…

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Hi Kim, I’m sorry I missed your message earlier. Welcome aboard!

Don’t worry about those bar chords. They intimidated me too when I first started, but you might be surprised at how quickly you make progress when you follow the Barre Chords for Everyone course step by step. I’ve tucked in a bunch of helpful techniques and some…

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Hi, I’m Kim from Massachusetts. I’ve owned a guitar since my 40th Birthday (I couldn’t afford a 60’s Mustang convertible) and can play songs on my acoustic guitar, but have not hopped the barre chord hurdle yet.

Dear Shulamit

Thanks to your song I had to inform what Bilvavi was in order to understand better what you wanted to share.

It is not directly connected to the Tora, isn’t it? But a person is discribing how you can come in contact with the higher life. Do I understand it right?

Everything that puts us in connection with God is fantastic. So go…

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I’ve just come back the RG. Love the new dashboard