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The answer to this question all gets down to what your goals are. Playing most 3 or chord songs, after a year is doable. Are you going to be able to play Landslide like Lindsey Buckingham or Wish You Were Here like David Gilmore…probably not. But you may be able to play a recognizable version of the songs. The best way I can describe the daily challenges is they are like a gym. You walk into a gym for the first time and you see weights and machines and you begin. You don’t start the first day with big weights you begin by learning the movements and as you learn the movements you slowly add weight. When you achieve your fitness goal or if you are training sport specifically reach proficiency in your sport you still hit the gym so you don’t lose what you have gained. Some of the guitar exercises are pro level exercises but can be broken down to levels that even a beginning player can play. It is why on TAC there are people who have been playing for years training right next to people who have just started. As you may have discovered TAC is not a place one comes to learn the choreography of how to play songs but rather it is a place to learn HOW to PLAY guitar. It is a place to train fingers and hands and mind in preparation for the Choreography of the finger dance when learning and playing a song. Without this component of training I was stuck in choreography limbo and ready to give up. I kept trying to learn songs I was not capable of playing and it was soul crushing. I have been here 7 years and I can play 95% of anything I want to play. 50% of stuff I want to play I can play without ever having heard it before. That last 5% beyond my current reach is reachable by persisting with the Daily Challenges and advancing methodically over time to my goal. Now you know why this multi year guitar trainee is happy to be here. I get to show up everyday and never have to think about what to do next. It is my personal training guitar gym. The biggest advantage is I keep getting better and closer to my goals. Why have I not reached my goals you may ask. I have over and over and over. I just keep making new ones. In the process I have become the player I have always wanted to be and then some.