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Course structure
Hi all,
I’m a newby to the Acoustic Challenge guitar learning website and community and I’ve just completed the 30 day challenge and a barre chords course and was wondering which course do I do next. Is there a logical order in which courses should be taken or do you just select at random? Does it matter? I’m generally OK with most chords (apart from that annoying b chord) as I have played on and off for many years. I’m embarrassed to admit how many. I’m very much interested in learning and becoming adept at finger picking. Do I just jump right in?
rgds, Paul.
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Hi Paul ( @matesicp ) Welcome to TAC👏👏 Congrats on finishing the “30 Days to Play” course. I believe I have a similar back ground story to yours, so let me share what I did after I completed the 30 Day challenge. The next step that I took was “Your Next 6 Chords” course – I thought I knew all the chords, but there were some I didn’t, and this course helped me to not only find a couple new chords, but most importantly, a method to learn how to fret the chords quickly so I could transition with speed between chords😱. From there, I did a “Jumpstart” course ( there are 3 of them in the “skills” section – and take note that there are 2 pages of Skills courses)👍. I did all the “jumpstart” courses and then I started doing the “Daily Challenges”. While doing that, I continued doing skills courses such as “Fretting Hand Toolbox” to reinforce some techniques I (thought) already had. Soon after, I developed a curiosity to know more about how to move around the fretboard. So the next course I took was called “Foundations of fretboard Navigation” and that led me to “Fretboard Wizard” – a spectacular course. This is the path I took, but you’re free to choose your own – I’m still doing some courses in the skills section, and currently going through Fretboard Wizard for the 2nd time – you pick up little bits and pieces that were over looked the first time💡🤩💡 helping things to click even more so in my mind!😎
Good luck with your journey, and remember to have fun all along the way🎸
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Thanks for the great tips Bill. I’ve done the 6 chords you mentioned so will now take a look at the “jumpstart” courses you suggested. It’s so much fun picking up the guitar again and so much to learn. One day I might actually have the confidence to showcase some newfound skills.
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I’m very new to this course too, with a similar history of playing as yours. I’ve been doing the daily challenges (trying on many of them), while slowly working through the Fret Wizard course. I’m going to check out the “jumpstart your skills” that Bill_Brown suggested. The daily challenges are short and interesting to me. And the fretboard wizard is super helpful (for me).
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Hi @Tracy84 , Welcome, and I hope your finding your journey pleasant so far👍 I just wanted to say that if you haven’t done the “30 Days to Play Challenge” yet, you should definitely do that one sooner than later. I thought I knew enough and wouldn’t get anything out of it, but went through it any ways. I finished it in 6 days, but I picked up several things from it that have been beneficial to my journey🤩
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I finished it last night. Great refresh and input. I found it very helpful. Thank you for the welcome!
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Good luck on your journey Tracy. This course is motivating me to really “learn” guitar playing this time around. 😀
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