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Yargnad said:
That's the ticket to freedom. I probably do it too much, I have to restrain myself when I post here or else @eSGEe will just make fun of me.

One trick is just to figure out how to arp thru a particular chord -back and forth and then you can link the chord shapes notmally like you're just playing along with a tune, except you're sweeping thru them instead of strumming. Feels more natural to me that way. Plus it feels more melodic.
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Great advice. I will try it tonight. Thank you!
 
Mr Grumpy said:
^ I am having fuk all success with the guitar strings, most annoying. It's quite amazing how much practice it takes to be awful at something - I don't think there's ever been another task/function/hobby in my life where I've put so much into it and developed so little. Damn irritating...
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I know the feeling. You can plateau in your progress for what seems like forever. However, if you keep playing and ride it out, seemingly all of a sudden, you have this breakthrough, and then BAM, you own the next level. Those breakthroughs must carry you through the next plateau, which last for variable time periods.

My cousin put a thought in my head when I was younger. She was teaching me to ice skate backwards. Of course, I would stumble and fall a lot. She said "Keep at it, and then one day, you will just have it and it will feel natural, like you had it all along." Now, whenever I am in that long and frustrating plateau, I remind myself "This is just skating backwards all over again"

Keep skating brother!
 
So anyway,

Since his lockdown started, I have become obsessed with Parkour. I watch it before bed, except it is so exhilarating, I cannot sleep and wind up watching a lot of it!



 
Thought I could get some work done on my new workshop area, then maybe play a geetar after work. Noooooo! The drainpipes are packed with black sludge. I couldn't run my snake to clear it. Hired a plumber, and he couldn't clear the black sludge. Could not even get a camera into the pipe (a waste of more money), and now they can't get back here until the morning to run the jets through the pipes to clear them. Have to live caveman style until morning. Hope I don't need to take a crap before I get to work in morning.

On the positive side, at least I am still working right now.
 
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chilipeppermaniac said:
John, the buckets have saved my azzz and shorts many a time either in the field or at my one house that has no running water at present. I often have to go work on the place whether it be carpentry, car and truck repairs, cut the grass etc and well, if Mother calls...
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Everything functions now. The plumbers said it looked like the pipes have not been cleared in over twenty years.
 
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