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I understand how this can feel overwhelming when starting out. Please understand you are not expected to “learn” the day’s challenge. Tony is exposing you to different skill sets each day. You are not mastering these skill sets. It takes time to develop these skills over months and years. You work on the challenge at your level for 10 minutes and then leave it. The challenge will come around again. Tony is teaching to a variety of guitar players at different skill levels. He does not expect someone that just picked up the guitar to play through the challenge. He has members that started TAC having experience playing guitar before joining and also people that never played the guitar before joining TAC but are are now on their 2nd or 3rd year etc…
So what do you do? Pick one small section of the daily challenge to work on for 10 minutes. For example, take this past Monday’s challenge “Cash It In”. If you can barely make an E chord or pick the correct strings, you are not going to worry about palm muting. Just practice picking the strings for 10 minutes. You can just do the E chord and not worry about the A and B7 chord. If you want to try palm muting, try without picking the single notes. If you feel comfortable do more. Just work at the level you are at. You are not trying to master any part of the challenge in one 10 minute sitting. If you are feeling overwhelmed then you are trying to do too much. It’s a process you are supposed to enjoy! Some days and challenges will be easier than others. As the weeks and months go by you will begin to notice that your skills are improving. The next time the challenge comes around you will be able to play more of the challenge and try some other aspect of the challenge like adding the A and or B7 chord. Maybe you will just work on the palm muting part with picking but only on the E string. Hope this helps.