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Will there be a completely new lesson anytime soon?
Greetings, TAC family!
I am approaching 1,000 playing sessions (953), and am concerned. Unless Tony is posting new content elsewhere, or the new content is re-recorded prior content, there has been no new content that I haven’t seen before in about a year. I know this because not only because of familiarity, but because many of them I “favorited” with the heart sign and I see it when I open the lesson. Yes, I understand that some of them, do come back around. But ALL of them are coming back around.
Is anyone else experiencing this? Perhaps I have experienced all that is available with TAC, and need to explore something else.
I hate to do this, since I am so grateful to Tony at the inspiration and encouragement I have found with TAC over the past three years. Always engaging, always humorous, and always fun!
Thanks so much,
Jeff
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I thought the repetition is part of the program. Each time it comes around I should be better at it and play better than the time before. If it was always new lessons then I would never perfect anything unless it was easy the first time around.
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Hi Jeff, @JeffK , you may be better served elsewhere. Definitely worth exploring. I have friends in other programs who share material, some of it very cool. Before you go and since you asked, I am not experiencing what you are. It is the opposite. I have been around for 9years and change: what I found is that I had changed so much in my playing capability between lesson repeat intervals, that they were nearly different lessons. I love having the daily challenges always here. I log in and start everyday with the challenge work in the gym before I head out onto the field of playing. I never worry that I am missing something, that I need to find a better way, that I am getting behind, that I need to plan out how I am going to get better….it is right there. Changes of scene are usually useful. In the end everything else I do is grounded by the TAC routine. I also learned this along the way, although I hesitate,…..,……,music is repetitive. Blew my mind when I embraced this. No matter where you go it is all the same, in principle, eventually. So go where you get better and have a good time. Is the lesson direction clear or cloudy? Look for clarity that you understand! For me that has been TAC.
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@Jeffk, I think it is healthy to have more than one system of learning. I understand your frustrations regarding the repeating lessons. I did a couple of years with a couple of teachers. My last teacher knew I was also doing TAC. I showed him a couple of the lessons. He thought they were pretty advanced, and contained a lot of material. Certainly something here for all levels of skill. For the price, I don’t think you can get anything that packs this much in. Three months of private instruction pays for TAC. I try to log in everyday and get the most out of the challenges.
BTW, I did quit TAC the first time I joined. It took a while to realize the value provided. And you get great people like Moose408 and Jumpinjeff to offer encouraging words of wisdom. I hope you can find something that works for you.
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@JeffK It seems to me that you’re referring to the Skills courses, and not the daily lessons, correct? I know some new ones wee added in the past 2-3 years. Those are the foundational skills that probably cover a lot of what you’ll need outside of the daily challenges that teach scales, functional skills etc., and yes repetition and becoming better with each go around of the dailies leads to improvement. Have you tried the old TAC Song Vault. That might give you some added challenges. It’s not included in the current TAC, and it was put on a more public site for those that originally paid for it, but it is often shared with everyone now,
https://hub-lkx8655w8n.membership.io/
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Do you know why they were removed from the general curriculum?
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i can’t answer your question exaclty but have a feeling tp will put some new stuff out before too long. until then check out Steve Krenz or Great Courses for some organized learning and/or there are so many instructional vids on youtube, but you would have to find and organize that yourself until the algor.ithm took over, then you are all set to serve your DSL automatically and learn some cool gitbox stuff.
!!SAINT CECiLIA!!
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Very grateful for your responses! Yes, I see the merits of the “coming back around” lessons, but they have come back around to me at least three times over the last three years. Which might be by design. I may look into some of the supplemental courses he has. And this week, I decided to retake Fretboard Wizard again, since I can always gain something new or re-learn what I forgot!
Thank you all for coming to my aid, and encouragement. I’m stickin!
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Jeff, I completely agree with you. I joined TAC because it took me forever to learn a new song which required skills that were a little ahead of where I currently was. I think TAC has helped me in this regard but now leaves me making smaller incremental improvement. I find myself not going through the lessons for the week but instead just sitting down and playing the song that’s highlighted. If no song then I just work on something else entirely. I think I am not going to renew this year. I think I will make faster and more targeted progress from self direction. Sad to say.
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