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How Often Do Skills Courses increase?
I joined very recently and aside from daily lesson I have found great value in *Skills courses*. There’s no info on site about these courses in terms of how often does Tony create new ones, or whether these current offerings are all there’ll be offered for foreseeable future. I know that the website has been overhauled, and I don’t know if the Skills offerings are relatively new. I’d appreciate hearing from my classmates about this! Many thx!
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Hi @SteveinCT the skills courses are added to occasionally. There isn’t a set schedule, but I know that since the new site, several 5 day challenges were added to it.
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thx Loraine. I’m new, so I’m not aware of timeline of when the site was updated. I assume site always had Tony’s lessons and community functionality, not sure what the updates were. However, if you could describe for me, and also go into your memory bank and pinpoint approx date for that update, could be a measure of when/if Skills will be added. Also, would you know who to ask at TAC about plans to update the Sessions?
I could see how the 5 day Challenges were added almost at once.
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Hi @SteveinCT I’m guessing that the site was upated about 2 months ago.
The overall look of the site changed, and the forums are different. I personally felt the forums were much more user friendly and easier to read new comments and replies and know which messages you had already read and responded to. There was a very active community in the forums on the old site and members were very responsive to questions and comments. There was a large ‘gear’ forum that was very popular. The skills courses are much easier to access in the new site. The old site was confusing for newcomers to navigate to certain courses. The old site had a member map and jam clubs (local groups of people with similar interests) that were very popular. Prior to COVID many people got together locally. Now the member section has a search function by area that you can search for others from your local area, and you can reach out to individuals via messaging. The old site was much faster than the current site. TAC is aware of the slowness of this site and are working with IT folks to try and speed it up. I think the lag has to do with the new site using a spooling technique that causes a delay while everything spools and loads. There was a calendar on the old site that allowed others to schedule things and the entire community could see what was scheduled and where. There was a song vault, that was a separate cost, that had fingerpicking and flatpicking songs at different skill levels that you could learn. I’ll have to think about other similarities and differences, but these are the main ones.
Basically, Tony and the TAC team wanted to get back to basics and focus on building guitar routine and foundational skills.
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Thx again, Loraine. I have just read through a Forum thread about the recent FAQ and all the tumult caused by changes to the site. Administrator Levi posted on Apr. 21 that 10 Skills 5 day challenge courses had just been added, presumably all at once. I’ll guess they’re packaged Daily Challenges, and I’ll have to ask Levi directly if adding 10 at once that means Skills will remain static for many months to come….
If you’ve been active with Daily Challenges since you joined, approx how many Daily Challenge lessons would you estimate Tony has filmed….at what point do they repeat (unfortunately, there’s no general info on the site about stuff like this).
I found that browsers matter with the site. On Firefox, the Daily Challenges were out of sync between audio and video, and basically screwed up. On Chrome, everything works fine.
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@SteveinCT The lessons rotate about every 8 months, and occasionally he’ll use the same lesson more than once (typically speed challenges or scales) if it applies to the weeks lessons. Weeks alternate between fingerpicking and flatpicking. Assuming there were no duplications of lessons that would be approximately 170 taped daily lessons during the 8 month period. He also has all the taped lessons within courses (several lessons to each course), all the Fretboard Wizard lessons.
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