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Hello. I have a question. First let me say I am enjoying Tony’s acoustic challenge but I was wondering if I should just concentrate on fretboard wizard for 30 days and not do TAC? I guess you can say I’m a on again off again guitar player and I want to get the most out of this challenge and definitely not feel overwhelmed to much information at once seems to stress me out and I don’t want that to happen. Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Thank you
Michael Rivera
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Hey there – normally Tony recommends to start with the 5-day guitar challenge: https://tonypolecastro.com/courses/5-day-guitar-routine-challenge/ and then just jump into the course on any Monday as each week is built around a similar song or method and build on each other so bets to start on a Monday.
I go through the other courses if/when I have time after the normal daily lesson, or on weekends when there aren’t any daily lessons. I went through the fretobard wizard over the course of a few weekends and probably a good time for me to do it again. But I also enjoy the other skills and lesson courses (especially the Jam along with Tony area!). There’s no reason you have to do the fretboard wizard early. You’ll still get a lot out of the lessons. As i learn more through the fretboard wizard, the lessons take on added meaning and connections.
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Hello. Thank you so much for the info. Have a good evening
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mike–
There is a LOT of info in FBW. There’s are lots of “nuts and bolts” things in there, but also a lot of “concept” stuff…..Big stuff…… Hard to put into words here- I hope you can see through my crummy explanation and understand what I mean.
And while I’m not gonna disagree with the people who designed it…. (as far as the 4-week plan for completing FBW)….. My question is…… Why?
My simple advice is— take your time with FBW. Your brain can only absorb soooo much over a certain time-frame. There’s a LOT in there. Go slow; understand it….. as you go along.
I think it’d be fine to stick with the regular Daily Challenges as you go thru FBW– as long as you give your brain the time it needs to absorb everything.
And then, as others have said before……. go thru FBW again…….. and then…… again. Every time you go back thru, you will “see” something new.
My two-cents…..
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Hey @mikemelr1966gmail-com Welcome to TAC and the forums.
The so try to determine how much time and effort it will require for you to go through fretboard wizard and understand the material. So, the answer to you question is, it depends. Every person is on their own personal guitar journey. However it’s important, in my opinion, to still play your guitar on a daily basis for at least the minimum 10 minutes a day that is suggested may not seem like if those 10 minutes are going to help you continued on a forward momentum in your journey I didn’t do the daily challenges when I took fretboard wizard but I did take some individual skill courses I felt it was less pressure and stress to take them I think I took the jumpstart courses for strumming and finger picking and who is one other I can’t remember but to me they weren’t overly difficult to wear it with interfering with me also taking prep wizard and I wouldn’t spend that much time and I’d go through one lesson and practice and I might take a couple of days for that one lesson but that’s only because I wasn’t putting in a lot of time practicing it at the time
The first time I went through FBW, I was a very new player I had never played guitar before and I was not prepared for it and I did rush through the course, and I simply wanted to play the guitar at the time. I think it was a disservice to myself to 1) take it too soon, and 2. to rush through it, just for the sake of completing it. You own it for life, so what’s the rush? If I could focus (have a lot of stress in my life right now) I would definitely go back through the fretboard wizard and take my time and really try to absorb the material and the theory, etc. But I would also still pick up the guitar every day and do something just to continue that momentum I mentioned. Now, to be fair, I did learn a lot, as I’ve moved forward in my journey a lot of it clicked into place just through my lessons here attack and out in a real world playing and it’s just all of a sudden you have that moment of clarity and understand something that was taught. I do believe that fretboard wizard is something that you don’t complete. It is meant to be taken again and again, and everyone says they pick up something new every time they go through it. Many people go back to it annually I’ve been back to it one time since I still have issues focusing so I just figured it wasn’t time for me to really dive into it when I did. I was taking guitar lessons for a while, and we did some theory, which I loved.
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Thank you
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Thank you that makes sense
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