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have really enjoyed these last 5 days, today has been very challenging with this step and is going to take a lot more focus than i have done so far. I believe i have gotten more out of this week than i have with my in person instructor. I was kind of skeptical about starting this, thinking perhaps its going to be to advanced for me , but all my preparations work i had spent the last couple years trying to learn to play proved to be very helpful, some of which is thanks to my in person instructor. Tony is right about the fact of taking it in small bites, it makes it easier to work with and understand. I will probably take the next step even and sign up for the Acoustic challenge program. thank you Tony for this program, whish i could thank you in person or even say it over the phone to you.
Definitely found I am not ready for this. You may want to let people know that they need to know what each string is and that they need some chord knowledge. I spent way more than ten minutes and still felt overwhelmed. I can see it can be valuable for more advanced beginners, but over my head.
Easy for me, but new. Can you tell me what is covered in the year long lessons? If I do this for a year what will I learn?
I can very slowly get the first line on the tab. The second line falls apart completely. Part of it is that I don’t know what finger to put on what string, and the other part is that my fingers simply don’t seem to move in those directions. None of the chord shapes on the second line correlate to anything I recognize so there’s no muscle memory that gets my fingers to where they should be. And they change with every measure so that’s really not happening. As a rank beginner, I think these lessons are still above my skill level, as simplified as they are, and I’ve been spending way more than 10 minutes a day trying to do this. There needs to be something way more basic to work on before I try to come back to this. Disappointed and frustrated.
I definitely practiced longer each day given a concrete target to shoot for. I’m always anxious wondering what my in-person teacher is thinking; I don’t have to worry about that here!
I deeply appreciate your lessons, yes I’m still struggling but not frustrated at 67. I will definitely sign up for your yearly course tomorrow. I believe your way is the motivation I’m needing.
Thank you
This helped me get over my fear of not being good enough to learn to actually play. Long way to go, but a great week! Hoping to join TAC and see where it goes.
I’m a 60 year old beginner, and I think I’m hooked. This has been a challenge but there were plenty of bright spots. On Day 4, I finally started feeling confident that I could eventually play a recognizable song with practice. Chords are a major challenge since I have small hands/fingers. I’m going to sign up for 3 months to see if I’m still improving and confident. My two concerns are whether there is any feedback for my specific questions or issues and the tabs don’t show the chord names. So, I can follow where to put my fingers but I’m not learning the chord names that way. I’ve got my cheat sheets for string names and basic chords but I don’t want to print out every exercise to write the chord names on them while I learn.
Finished the 5 day challenge. Some days tougher than others. Finally starting to get most of it. Brand new beginner, first guitar. Getting my fingers to curl and not mute some strings has been a challenge.
Will be also starting the program on Monday.
Well, looks like Danielle and I might be the sole survivors this week with just our comments so far! I really enjoyed the week and had many little accomplishments. My chord changes need the most work, but as I’ve seen watching many training videos the last couple months, even the best slip up once in a while! I probably will sign up for the yearly as I like how the challenge is setup and I believe it will keep my interest moving forward while still having fun playing (not mastering) the daily challenges. Thanks for the 5-day challenge and look forward to seeing more or your videos.
Well Tony, I finished my 5th day this morning and it was a very interesting and fun group of lessons. I’m most proud of utilizing the habit stacking process you mentioned in your 30 minute intro video and have built a good foundation for practicing and showing up for all 5 days. I’m planning to jump right into your 30 day challenge this Monday after I sign up for your yearly program which sounded like a good deal. Thanks for creating this program, I can’t wait to hear what I sound like after the first 30 days!
Just checking to see if my typing works. I did the 5-challenge and signed up as a TAC member today. So far, I really enjoy the content. I think I have already improved. Appreciate your methods. Take care.
I enjoyed your 5 day guitar challenge! I think that I have picked up on your guitar lessons better than when I took my guitar lessons many years ago. Thank you Tony.
i really enjoyed the challenge and think this is a wonderful way to teach guitar! I was able to play right along with you no problem. i have tried Facebook, YouTube, and email lessons and have most of the books you showed in the intro video, and wished i had something like this when i started out, it would have prevented a lot of my bad habits. I currently have your version of “Last Steam Engine” in my playing repertoire and it’s one of my favorites. Thank You for this opportunity. TAC is a wonderful teaching tool!
Finding day 5 almost impossible just really struggling with g & c cords
Days 1-4 great
Hi Tony,
I tried Guitar for Dummies, a couple of video courses, and I tried to teach myself by reading music that had chord diagrams for guitar on the sheet music. None of them has gotten me as far in as short a time as this past five days has. I am hooked.
Had a great time very difficult but the way you change things up makes it fun
Its been a tough week, not least of which has been the time constraints on me. My daughter started the week pregnant and overdue,
i just came back from my second visit to hospital to see my beautiful grandson. I made the decision this morning to join up and now I’m just going through day 5 knowing I’m still a mile from perfection , but understanding I am making headway and enjoying the experience at the same time. This is about the only time in my life that i have felt the need to make comment about it. Thanks Tony.
So what I have learned in 5 days is that I truly am NOT a guitar player!! I enjoyed the lessons but I can honestly say from my beginners standpoint I just couldn’t keep up without spending hours on each day. I’m such a beginner that I am just learning the chords and the strings as we go along and if you guys that are more familiar with guitar remember, as soon as you learn a chord, you forget it!! I am writing them out (diagramming the finger positions, which I think would be a nice addition to the lesson) to help remember them. I am sure Tony doesn’t realize there are students in this challenge that have never picked up a guitar before!! I would love to continue with the 30 day challenge but at this point I am so discouraged and frustrated I can only imagine what I would feel like given another week! I hope to be back when I have the basics under by belt (or fingers). Thanks.
Same as Val so eloquently wrote. Day 5 for example was much better going over the G progression with the strumming added I was doing pretty well, but the D progression I had a very hard time remembering which fingers to lift, so I blew that off for today. I’m still in open water here, so I’ll go over the 5 days again until I feel I won’t drown. I’ll consider buying on in full. I do wish I had one private lesson so somebody could give me some basic pointers about my guitar and my strumming. My guitar is pretty old and I’m not sure the threats are good or the strings are sitting in the saddle properly.
I’m concerned about going to the next step of signing for an entire year or even a month. I’ve found lesson 4 and 5 difficult and I can only get through about half the lesson with 2 or more hours of playing. If I sign for a year and the process is the next lesson builds on the previous then I’m screwed since I can only get a portion of the previous lesson completed with any accuracy. Are the paid lessons like the free 5 day cahallenge? Where you only get 24 hours to do a lesson before the next? Is it 260 lessons that I can take three years to learn or is it just one calendar year and then my membership runs out? I can’t do this every week day for a year, I’m not taking my guitar on vacation with me. I do appreciate the five free days, I’ve learned and progressed but definitely not at the pace of the lessons.
I have played guitar for 50 years. I learned it purely to sing songs and can play hundreds of songs. I can play lots of accompaniments and styles but I have never done runs or riffs or the stuff you have taught. Thank you so much. I hope I can join your course from the UK?
Your posts are very interesting, I really enjoyed them.
Robert and Val. This was my question on Thursday. When we aren’t as smooth or proficient (it really isn’t a song yet) SHould we go into the next week with the same 5 days of study and song???