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Part of the issue sounds like you are spending 60 minutes trying to get through the daily lessons. While that “might” work, it is just going to lead to frustration. The brain learns in brief spurts. You will learn for the first 10-20 mins but everything after that is not going to help.

My approach to the Daily Challenges is to try it for 10 mins, sometimes a little more. Some days I can only do the first line, sometimes I spend the entire 10 mins on the just the first measure. The Challenges are meant to CHALLENGE you and you aren’t expected to learn them in the first sitting, or even the 2nd or 3rd. I’ve been with TAC a little over a year now and have seen challenges come back around that I couldn’t do at all the first time, and now I can get a little further. It is rare that I can do an entire Daily Challenge unless it is very simple (Palm Muting, Double Stops, etc).

As to your original question; I just looked and at 5 months I had done 87 hours of total practice.

– I could play a couple of songs, Three Little Birds, and Mad World that had simple chords. I added 15 mins a day of practice dedicated to learning songs.
– I could read TABs but not at real time.
– I couldn’t solo per se but I felt comfortable doing the Improv day here at TAC.
– I went to my first music Jam session for beginners and was the worse one there. If I couldn’t play a particular piece I would just mute my strings and strum along. I kept at it going every week and it’s done a lot to help me improve. It is basically guitar karaoke, where as a group we follow along to songs on Ultimate Guitar.

I’m now a year in and 248 hours of practice and I still don’t feel like I’m a guitar player. But I do recognize the progress I have made and so my daily goal is to be just a little bit better than I was yesterday.