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Streaks are wins however there’s a glitch
I was on a 57 day streak according to the counter that should have been closer to 70 days because of a glitch. Today is Thursday and I was just given credit for Friday rather than today so my streak is back to 1 day. I won’t apologize for being upset. The streaks are big wins for me and for this to happen with seemingly no effort to rectify the issue is disappointing. I believe that membership has good value for the money but it still isn’t cheap. I notified TAC when this first happened nearly two months ago and did again just now. To my knowledge, no effort has been made to correct the glitch or at least tick the box in my account to indicate that I logged in therefore correcting my attendance streak.
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Sorry this happened to you! I have also lost streaks when I believed I shouldn’t have. I was just coming here to celebrate my win: I finally caught up to my longest streak! Yay!
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Happens to me all the time as well. I get about ten to thirteen days in, and zap…back to one.
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I stopped using TAC to track my streaks and now use an IOS app called Andante. I’ve missed one day of practice in the past 723 days. Currently on 256 days since that missed day.
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I haven’t tracked a streak for a long time, but it became necessary to not relying on it, and simply accept it as being the case.
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I have only finished the 30 day and 5 day and I have played every day. I’m guessing unless you actually go through something on the site – hitting play or watching a video it doesn’t count logins? I wish there was a way to mark that you played and the number of minutes – optional field for what you practiced.
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Thank you. There seems to have been a major fix a couple of months ago that does a lot better of capturing activity.
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You have to hit the home page, this advances the counter. Every morning I go to the main page where your stats are and I watch the counter roll over. Sometimes it takes a refresh of the page for the Longest Day Streak to catch up to the Current Day Streak, but as long as the Current rolls over to the next day, your session will be counted. Of course there can be only one rollover per day. Multi session days don’t count extra.
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Hi @KnottyJim : out of curiousity how is your playing going?
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@jumpinjeff thanks for asking. I’m pretty steady with a daily routine, with some breaks in the past few weeks. I don’t feel that I am getting any better unfortunately. It is disappointing. I am trying to have fun but it is hard when I’m just stumbling and not progressing.
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@KnottyJim when you struggle and feel that you aren’t progressing, be thankful!! This means you are being challenged and while you don’t know it, you are progressing more than you can imagine! When things seem very hard and undoable, you’re being pushed a lot more.
If you could do the challenge of the day immediately, how much would you have just learned?
Any idea?
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Do you think it would be a lot?
I’ll tell you: it would be next to nothing!
Progress tends to come in spurts. Yes you can find small gains by rehearsing over and over again and see noticeable strides from week to week But the really monumental times where you catch yourself taking giant leaps – those frequently come when you’re not expecting them at all! That’s what we call the magic and all too often people quit before it can happen.
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Hi @KnottyJim , sorry for the delayed response, I have been on the road, holidays and all. There are two things that may be holding you back. Daily playing: I grossly underestimated the importance of this one practice for the first years of my playing only to become a strict devotee of the practice once I saw the results. I was able to do this by raising the level of importance of the daily playing. It was difficult to convince those around me of my sincerity and my personal need for this carve out. Their perspective was based on what they heard and not what was in my heart. Gaining this understanding was in itself a small win. It also bolstered my determination. When my mother died, I played. When my grandson was born I played. When I travel I play. After spine surgery I played. After shoulder surgery I played. This was and integral part of becoming the player of my desire. The second thing is unemotional analysis of progress. Are you actually not progressing or are you not progressing as fast as you would like to progress, or are you progressing so slowly it is hard to tell? The subject is a heavy one. Once identified the good news is you get to optimize progress based on your own analysis. I leaned heavily on the forums for the first few years to accomplish this. Putting my struggles down and reading solutions with open-minded curiosity was almost as frequent as my playing sessions themselves. You have made progress just to get to this cross roads, just keep going and keep playing everyday, no matter what. The rest we can fix all together.
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@jumpinjeff thanks for the encouragement. I appreciate everyone who tries to help me and others here. This week’s frustration comes from that darn F chord where the high E and B strings are barred. When going through the lesson and I get to the F, I get hung up trying different ways of contorting my fretting hand to make it each string ring clear. I’ve worked and worked on it. Not just this week but many weeks and I can’t get a clear chord to ring clear. All this said, I still prefer TAC to any in person lessons I have had before.
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That old F shape is a tricky one. I had to sneak up on it, barred the two high strings only (at first) and focused on getting them to ring out, then added the G and contorted around until those three all rang and then added the D. This allowed me to dial in the pressure I needed to make it ring. I found I was trying to use too much brute force and became aware of the importance of precise placement of the fretting fingers. As you go through the contortion motions don’t forget to consider your elbow and shoulder as points of rotation not just wrist and fingers.
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The streaks can be fun but when they falter ( and they inevitably do) don’t allow it to derail you. I had a streak of 366 days (for a leap year) and I deliberately broke it because it started to suck some of the fun out of the journey. I still have long streaks and I use them for motivation but I know ( just like my Ford pickup truck) occasionally they won’t start or the tire pressure warning light comes on. So I’d say like the others to make the streak work for you, not you for it.
(I still wonder why about three months ago my longest streak dashboard went from 366, which it indicated for years, to 324 for no reason. I’ve asked support to fix it at their convenience but so far it apparently hasn’t been convenient. By the very fact of mentioning it, I must not be as laid back as I suggest you be.)
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Had the same thing happen @albert_d , I should be at 108 right now but the counter reads 100. Safe to say I’m not on TAC for the tech! Love it here nonetheless, best learning site I’ve ever seen. Notice I didn’t say “guitar learning site”, but best learning site!
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Thanks. I’m over it now, I know what I’ve done and I don’t have to impress anyone but me.
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Sorry to hear you had that happen. I’m very new here and it only says I’m on a 5 day streak. Actually I’m ending my first 30 days straight and haven’t missed any days. Didn’t even know what the 5 day streak meant. So no worries, just keep track on your own calendar. I’m not sure it really matters, does it?
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