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Barry, I am brand new to guitar and also to TAC. I’ve been doing the 30 Days to Play for the last few days, and I can attest that it will no doubt take me longer than 30 days! ;P I’ve gotten through the Blues Shuffle and Blues Bassline lessons, but I’ve gone back to both multiple times to keep improving, especially with making the transitions. I’ve marked each as a favorite, too. 🙂
After each lesson, I start the play-along at 50% speed (.5x) at first. When I’m reasonably fine with that, then I go up to 75% (.75x) speed. I’m now at 100% (1x) speed for the shuffle, though I’m still not mistake-free. I’ll keep working on both of these lesson play-alongs, and at some point I’ll go on the next lesson just to keep myself from being too frustrated and bored. Then, I’ll just revisit each briefly again before or after learning the next lesson.
I like Alfred’s suggestion of learning a song to keep yourself motivated. I don’t know if I’m quite there yet 😉 but I’m planning to do just that to go along with my 30 Days to Play program.