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Need guidance
I have seen people on the forum playing songs fully with the proper strumming. I have been doing the weekly challenges but there is never the whole song there to learn. Am I missing something? Please help.
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Common question @buzzcarla-cgmail-com . If you search the forum you will find many good explanations. Tony doesn’t teach you how to play a song from start to finish and there are good reasons:
1. There are dozens of ways to play any song
2. He teaches you the skills that are used in hundreds of songs, perhaps thousands.
3. When a lesson is focused on a song he gives you about 75% to 85%. You get the chord progression for verse and chorus. What may be lacking are the bridge and vocals
4. He doesn’t just teach one way to play the song, he will often give you different strumming or picking styles for whatever level you are comfortable with.
5. The challenges are designed to teach players from absolute beginner to advanced, those with 0 days to 10+ years of experience. If he focused on just how to play a song, 95% of members would tune out. Instead he has nuggets in each lesson for players at all levels.
6. The songs posted here are by individuals who may have learned a certain song from the challenges but then spent their own time rehearsing it. Some of them are literally an exact reproduction of one of the PLAY videos with or without vocals
Others who post songs here have learned those songs in a myriad of different ways.
7. If you trust the process and stick with TAC, you will eventually have learned the skills to play thousands of songs; not that you will know them completely but you can learn to play it very quickly. (Multiple times faster than a new player just working on a single song at a time)
8. In a nutshell, TAC teaches you to become a guitar player. It doesn’t teach you the process of playing song1, song2 ….song10 from start to finish. If it did that, you would only be able to play those 10 songs at the end.
Also you would now focus on perfecting elements of the song in order to sound like the original artist. Tony frowns upon perfection because it leads to frustration and quitting. He wants members to have fun giving their best 10 minutes each day, marking complete and coming back tomorrow. Return consistently to your guitar and you will grow!
Final thought: there is a Song Vault on the site that is more tailored to teaching a few songs. I understand it’s from the earlier days of TAC, the new site no longer links to it, but it still exists. https://hub-lkx8655w8n.membership.io/
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Thank you for your reply. It was very informative.
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What petelanger said. I can play some songs, or a version of them, beginning to end. I didn’t usually learn those songs on TAC; but what I learned on TAC gave me the skills to learn those songs and play them.
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I signed up on the Ultimate Guitar App and have found songs there. Thanks!
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@buzzcarla-cgmail-com I am also a member of Ultimate Guitar, I haven’t used the app, I just login on my laptop. I do have a collection of chord sheets and Tabs downloaded, but playing songs hasn’t really been too much on my radar. I’m trying to get to a point where learning songs would come quickly because I don’t want to spend weeks trying to learn a song and have this be a detriment to my TAC journey.
I use UG to learn riffs that I like and just have fun with playing those. I know full songs will be there when I’m ready. That’s just me, everybody has their own guitar journey. Rock on!
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