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New to TAC? Today’s Challenge?
I joined the TAC last week, I have no background in musical instruments. I started the 30 day course, its fun and I’m making progress. However, I clicked on the Today’s challenge and I was immediately out of my lane. I am hoping I am in place where I shouldn’t be, because that challenge, including following the chord instruction was way over my head (Pentatonic scale, A Minor). Did I take a wrong turn or is there a reasonable place to be in the course for a newbee besides the 30 day?
Randy
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The thirty days to play is the perfect place to start. I wouldn’t worry that the daily’s are beyond you at this point.
The purpose of the daily is to give everyone something fresh to practice every day. The focus shouldn’t be so much perfecting something. More 10 minutes of focused practice… 10 minutes of try.
If you feel you aren’t ready to take one on just work on your 30 day challenge if you are more comfortable with that right now.
As for me there are often daily challenges that are well outside my wheelhouse, and I do them to the best of my ability, trying to stretch for new skills, but I rarely have it mastered on the same day, if at all.
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@Randall O, welcome to TAC I am new here too. It seems like the daily challenges vary in difficulty. It seems to me it was easier at the beginning of the month and as the month progressed it built on earlier lessons. But being new I don’t know if that is a typical; pattern.
Don’t worry, lots of us take time to get the daily lesson down. -
@rokon@stny.rr.com , Keep after those daily lessons. All of them can be done at base level, for instance: the Friday key chord lesson in G. Take just the G chord and work that on and off. Each time Tony changes just stay on the G chord, pressure on, pressure off. Pressure on, pressure off, shake your hand, pressure on. When the G chord gets comfortable move to the Am and go back and forth between the two and so on. The important thing is you are giving the lesson a go getting exposed to the skills and concepts presented. Like Alfred said, “10 minutes of try” and hopefully finding a small win in the process. Mondays lessons can be done very slowly as in 30 bpm slow. Tuesdays lick lesson can be done one measure at a time. Wed scale lesson starts for me by identifying the Root notes of the key. If it is Key of G, the root notes are all the G notes in the scale. Playing just a root note in time with rhythmic variation is how I start every Wed scale lesson. Have a little fun, learn one thing you didn’t know or could not do before and observe that progress.
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Thanks for the replies. I definitely will continue the 30 day as that is my speed. I will also try the challenges even though I have no ability to understand the lingo nor chords I haven’t yet learned or tried. It is a bit of a daunting task following the fretting instructions in the “challenges” because they are pretty fast videos and mimicking the finger actions + placements is a lot of back and forth in the video itself. I know I sound down, but I am learning things and having fun in the 30 day course and sounding out the riffs.
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Hi @Randall you might have already found it. There is tab (written example) of the lessons available it’s a little note button in faint gray, bottom right of the lessons. I tend to pop the video out (this is a button at the bottom of the player) and then go to the tab. This way I have Tony’s explanation and a written version as well at the same time. This might save some going back and forth. Hope I’ve explained it ok although I might have just confused you more 😂 sorry
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