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  1. Hello All. This months Challenge comes to us from rockinrickard and is entitled 🚛Movable Chords💥 Rick said "How about anything with some of the movable chord shapes that we learned a while back? It could be a real song or just a rhythm using some of the movable chord shapes; extra credit if some lead is placed over the top of the rhythm." So get recording everyone and give us something to listen to! The "winner" is chosen by a random picker and the prize is that you get to choose the topic for the next Challenge. 1. Nutty1 playing "Stray Cat Strut" Stray Cat Strut 2. Wim VD1 playing "Love of my Life"
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  2. Limatje I hear your pain and you have unfortunately went down the proverbial Guitar Rabbit Hole! Not to worry- we all struggle at some point and lose our way trying to accomplish a goal that is very important to us as musicians! You have basically over taxed yourself in the attempt to learn and be dedicated and you have burned out. All work and no play makes a person "NOT FUN TO BE AROUND"! Set reasonable & attainable goals for yourself! More 15-30 minute practice sessions will attain more improvement over 3 hour practices sessions unless you have a professional system in place, a good music teacher, a true love for guitar and the drive & time to dedicate. I would not recommend practice session on anything over 1 hour. The smaller sessions are easier to maintain total focus and our brains are wired to retain this material more readily than trying to complete a marathon cram session. You need to have fun and always finish a session with something positive so you will build the desire to return for the next practice! Be reasonable and play slow which equates to learning faster! A possible example would be: 1. Monday- You are in session 14, so set your goals for 1 hour: 5 minutes on warm-up & stretching, 5 minutes on chords and 5 minutes on fretboard; 15 minutes on review of material that you know you are struggling with; 20 minute on session 14 material. 10 minutes on just fun playing a song or two. 2. Tuesday- 15 minutes on Music notation, 15 minutes to transpose a song key and play song. 30 minutes of song play using barre chords 5th and 6th string roots. 3. Wednesday- 5 minutes of stretch & warm-up; 15 minutes guitar theory- scales; 15 minutes guitar playing scales. Each week pick a scale- Major, Minor, Pentatonic, Blues Scale, etc.... 30 minutes using backing track and playing scales over backing track! 4. Thursday- 5 minutes stretch & warm-up; 10 minutes of review areas of struggle; 30 minutes of session 14; end with 15 minutes of fun song play! Learn a new song and finish with a song you love! 5. Friday- 5 minute warm-up; 30 minutes of barre chords & movable chords; 15 minutes review session 14; 10 minutes of fun song play. 6. Saturday- Fun day. Enjoy a 30-60 minute session of noodling with chords and a two or three note melody, arpeggiating, finger picking, etc... 7. Sunday- Take the day off and enjoy yourself. You can adjust your topics based on your goals and target areas and music based on music genre, etc... Most important- HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!!! Enjoy the journey and don't get to competitive! Take care. Mike
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