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Hi Steve. Many of the courses in the Skills section first appeared as 5 day challenges for a week of daily lessons, then later showed up as courses. Sadly, from my point of view at least, a few of the 5-day challenges have not been added to the Skill section.
It seems we have a special 5-day challenge for one of our weeks during most all 5-week months. I thought that might be because there are typically just four variations of Friday Key Chord lessons: KC major, KC minor, KC accidental and KC mixed.
Just as Tony is not making up new lessons for each day, he’s not continuously developing new 5-day challenges. He uses one from what is now called the Skills Course section. Occasionally he’s inserted a song challenge, using one of the songs from the song vault. I don’t know if he’ll reprise that, now that the Song Vault has figuratively been cast out into the darkness, no longer welcome in TAC space.
Your comment about “double dipping” suggests you think you’re not getting full value. I don’t feel cheated when they use an “existing” Skills Course as a week of lessons. It is good content. I had just gone through the banjo course again about a month ago, but I am game to do it again.
Until the recent “re-decorating” project, all the daily lessons were in libraries. All the lessons were available all the time, neatly organized by daily category. I liked that availability and I miss it a lot. Perhaps you would have also considered that “double dipping,” since the daily lessons for each month were being pulled from a pool. They still are being pulled from a fixed pool. We just no longer have a pool pass.
The lesson content has been fairly static for quite some time. Only a handful of challenges have been added since I joined nearly 4 years ago. Maybe we will still see a new challenge introduced occasionally, but at best I expect that to be a really rare thing. The program is what it is. Either you like it or you don’t. I’m a life member, so I’m still using the dailies.