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Ok, first thing I need to say @Ping , is to directly answer your question: NO, do not stay stuck on these chords. That’s exactly why so many other methods create so much frustration that people quit trying to play guitar.
Tony’s method works for so many people because he takes a completely different approach. Try the chords. Do the best you can then go to the next lesson. This way, you are moving forward and you can have fun.
How can you have fun when you can’t play these chords cleanly? Simple, don’t judge yourself by how well you do or don’t “master” the lesson. It’s totally unimportant. In fact, it’s actually harmful to attempt to “master” anything. So what DO you do?
Ok, first, watch Tony’s explanation in the course “TAC Quick Start” under the “Skills Courses”. He will tell you all about how his method works. The way I like to understand it is that we are trying to be like children. We have fun trying but we don’t care how well we do. Since we are “just a child”, we don’t expect to do well. That opens the door to recognizing the “small win”, that is, the things we did well and/or the things we learned. What do we do with the things we couldn’t do?
That’s another part of Tony’s method. We DO NOT beat ourselves up over what we can’t do well. Either by berating ourselves OR by wearing ourselves out trying to “master” something in one day that’s realistically going to take days, weeks, or even months to get down. Instead, you make your “challenge” a regular part of your guitar routine. Every day when you play/practice your guitar, you are going to spend a few minutes working on your chords.
Ah, finally, we are at the point to help you know exactly how to work on those chords. Take one chord at a time and spend a little while just trying different positions with your fingers, wrist, elbow, even the way you are holding the guitar. Experiment till you can get that one chord to sound clean. Then stop an move on. Leave some for the next day. This is going to take too much time to do in one session or even one day. Maybe at the end of one week you will get one chord down cleanly.
Once you get one chord, work on another. When you get 2 chords down, you can practice going very slowly from one position to another position.
In the meantime, play a song with horrible sounding chords. Who cares? Have fun and enjoy what your can do.
I hope this helps.
MG 😀