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Moving so fast!
Hello. I’, loving the lessons and I’m learning a lot but, The lessons are moving so fast, I can’t keep up! I’m just starting the daily challenges. It takes me more than one day to get each lesson down to where I can play it at least slightly. Then I get behind. Maybe I’m doing something wrong. I seem to get lost and I don’t know what to do next. For instance, this is 5/8 and I’m still back in the week before. I practice everyday but I’m not confident enough to keep moving on to the next lesson. Am I the only one with this issue? I must be doing something wrong?
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You not the only one with this issue, but the issue isn’t your playing, it is your mind. You don’t have to get it “right”, you just have to get it “better”. The challenges will come back around again at some point. Consider yourself “complete” if you have done your 10 minutes. If you really love the challenge and want to master it then mark it a favorite and let it bake in your muscle memory then come back at some point and try again. I have one challenge I love, Mississippi Timing. I love it but I have struggled with it off and on for two years now. I come back to it about once a month and work on it a bit. Each time I get closer (it’s a timing thing). Now some times I even get it right. Eventually I will have it. When I do, I will record and post it. (See my action plan.) But in the meantime I am enjoying other less challenging Daily Challenges and now I can play Brown Eyed Girl. The challenges build. Trust the process. Perfect can be the enemy of Good. And above all, Let yourself have fun.
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Hi Albert Thank you so much for answering my question. I am going to work on remembering to “Favorite” the lessons I will need to keep trying to learn. I’m so new at this but I do know that it will get easier with time. Thanks again!
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Hi @ellenbelshin23gmail-com , don’t worry, most of us have felt overwhelmed by the lessons. I started out just like you. I would work on a lesson until I could play it before I would mark it complete and move on. But, you will really get behind that way. So I eventually, learned to give it my best and if I really love it I favorite it so I can come back to it after the month completes. I also use the weekend to practice the week’s lessons. As @albert_d mentioned the lessons do come around again and you will see that the next time you encounter it you will find it easier. It is a long term process of exposure and improvement. It is not likely that when you encounter something for the first time that you will play it like Tony on that day or week or month or year even. But you will see improvement as time goes by. Just consistently try the daily lessons and you will see gradual improvement.
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Thank you Sherry. I guess I have to just let go of perfectionism and keep moving forward. Thank you so much for the helpful reply.
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Hey in reading your response I saw you live in Hutto. I’m in north Austin. My grandkids are in Round Rock. So a super welcome to you.
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This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by albert_d.
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Wow, Yep, that’s really close. Thank you for the welcome and I’m happy to meet you!
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And I’m in NW Austin. We three are practically neighbors!
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That’s awesome! Happy to know I’m not the only one in Texas!
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Thank you so much for posting this. I’ve felt like I couldn’t keep up too. I’m in the 30 days to play guitar phase and I’ve spent 2.5 weeks on the first week’s lessons.
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You are doing great. You have to trust the process. All good things take time, and you are on a beautiful journey.
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I’m a newer guitar player. When I first started the lessons I was pretty overwhelmed at the speed and complexity. I tend to need to play the videos at .5x speed, etc. Now, when I approach the lesson it is about learning one new thing – and it doesn’t need to be mastered or great, I just need to attempt it. 10 min is all I focus on as the success of the lesson.
There are some weeks (the barre chord week) where even 10 min felt like too much so I simplified my goal and focused only on my right hand to look at rhythm/picking. I wasn’t able to execute the barre chords but I was able to still learn something.
I’m excited for a day when I can do the full lesson perfectly but that may be a few years yet 🙂 and that is ok.Good luck!
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Thanks kay!…Your right. I think I’m trying too hard to get it right too soon. It’s going to take some time but eventually I’ll get it. Best of luck to you too!
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@ellenbelshin23gmail-com Im a latecomer to this post. Welcome to TAC.
You asked a great question, and you’ve done nothing wrong. It takes a while to understand the minimum of 10 minutes. As others have stated, put in 10 minutes doing your best, and then mark a lesson complete. Does that mean you can’t keep working on it longer than 10 minutes – No. you can work on it as long as you want, but my suggestion is to not spend that much more time on it. Mark complete and move on. Practicing long periods of time is ineffective and actually causes your playing to deteriorate.
Trust the process of practicing in small chunks. You will progress and get better, and the lessons you previously had difficulty with will be easier and easier each time they cycle back around. To me that’s the coolest tool of Tony’s program – actually remembering the struggles ai had in doing certain lessons, but I remember those struggles when they recycle, and I can actually see how much more I understand and am able to understand amd play the dailies.
Good luck, and remember, it’s supposed to be fun!
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Hi @ellenbelshin23gmail-com All of us in the TAC family have their own approach, it seems. Typically a question posted in the “Forums” will elicit a variety of replies. Well, here’s my two-cents-worth: I have been a TAC member for over a year and a half. I’ve never been able to master each daily challenge. After several months of struggling, I decided to quit stressing out about it. I will watch a lesson, try it for 10 minutes, and then move on if it’s frustrating or unappealing. If I enjoy it, I’ll keep on keeping on! But , if it’s causing me grief, I will STOP. I often skip lessons I have no interest in. Instead, I’ll work on challenges I previously marked as a “Favorite.” I have decided to concentrate on material that RESONATES with me, and I have decided to play what brings me PLEASURE. In my opinion, that’s a “WIN. WIN.” After all, this is supposed to be FUN! Right!?
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This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by OhWowMan. Reason: @ellenbelshin23gmail-com
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I am so glad this question was floated as I have been struggling with the number of lessons in a week. Like Ellen, I want to “master” the lesson each day before moving on and review and repeat lesson throughout the week to keep up but have been stressed out by the amount of practice it takes to improve. I have even resigned to the other specialized courses so I can proceed at my own pace. What I am hearing is to spend a short focused amount to time each day on the lesson and move on. “Mastering” is not the goal. I thought is was… well, slow.
Thanks all for the guidance and support and to Ellen for asking the question.
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