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New and need help
I’m fairly new to Tony’s Acoustic Challenge, have finished the first 30 days and the 5 day challenge. What do I do next?
Also, I did North Country Winters a few days ago, but can’t seem to locate it. Can somebody help….
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Hey Barclay and welcome!
I’m about 60 days in and I’m with you! Once your done with the 30 days to play and the 5 day guitar routine you’re ready for the daily challenges.
I personally would start with a Monday challenge which will be the beginnings of the pieces of a song for the week. I have never picked up a guitar until August of 2025, so take my advice with a grain of salt except that the process works.
For me the daily challenges are pretty hard, but that’s OK. Spend your requisite 10 minutes or more if your feeling up to it, then move on. Mark that lesson complete so you have accomplished something and move on. I felt in the beginning like I had to master that days lesson before I could move on; heck no! Mark it done and go about your day. You mentioned not being able to find the previous lesson… mark it as a favorite with the heart icon on the video and it will always be in your favorites so you can go back to it!
Again, don’t get hung up with having to feel like you’ve mastered it! Every month or so a song will come back around as a benchmark song and you can then see how you’ve progressed.
I’ll leave you with this. in August, I didn’t even know how to hold a pick. Since then, I have learned about all the chords you will need to play any song as a rhythm guitar, I have learned some blues licks (my favorite) and can read tablature better than my son who has been playing guitar for 3 years. He wishes he had taken lessons like this instead of just learning to play by ear.
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Well said @SCGobbler ! TAC is a wonderfully designed program, just show up as often as you can and always play at least for 10 minutes! If you still have time after that and it’s still fun, keep going! Always focus on having fun, that’s why we’re here! Lean on the TAC community to get your questions answered!
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Hello SCGobbler, you are bilding “looking>muscle movement connections” in your neutral network while your son ist building “hearin>muscle movement connections”. I´m very sure that he will be the more advanced player in the future when it comes to jams and memorizing more than maybe 10 to maximum 20 songs. I played the daily challenges several years, app. 350 every year looking at the TAB. Until I didn´t get any better. Then I found out, that TAC is great, BUT that I had to get more TAB/looking independent while doing the daily challenges. So I do them now without looking at the TAB. Even if it means doing just a part. If I were yout I would try to get TAB-independend. And I wish that my inperson teacher 15 years ago would have taught me exactly the way your son is taught.
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This reply was modified 5 months ago by Kristin1. Reason: printing mistake
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Oh that is great insight @Kristin1 , thanks for chiming in!
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Wow, thanks for taking the time to help and encourage!!
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