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Started, but I didn’t start in the right place
Hi, I did the 30 day challenge and then I started the skill’s courses. I didn’t complete the last one because I noticed I was missing out on the daily challenges and didn’t know I was supposed to be doing them. Now my question, there are some songs that I absolutely love practicing. I don’t want to start on something new when I haven’t mastered the songs I have discovered that I love. So should I just jump in with whatever challenge is there for the day and go from there. For instance, I started with Dead or Alive (love that song) but I don’t have it mastered. Now I’m working on Angel from Montgomery, another one I love- but I’m not anywhere near where we are supposed to be in the month. Should I just skip ahead now so I am in the right spot?
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@Coreena you will want to drop the term “mastered” from your vocabulary when you are in TAC mode. I’ve been here 18 months and I haven’t mastered any songs yet. Every one has been improving, especially the benchmarks because we see them 3 times a year. This system is about playing for a short time daily and marking complete. 10 minutes is suggested, for me it’s usually a 20 minute session that I often repeat once or twice more during the day.
There’s a reason why you don’t learn to play songs completely in TAC. For a beginner player, it would require an awful lot of effort to correctly mimic the artist’s recording, probably 2 to 4 weeks (depending on the complexity of the song) of practicing many hours daily. At that point it probably would be a rather shabby mimicry, unless you are already a superb player. This response is assuming you are not yet an accomplished musician on the guitar.
Tony teaches you techniques to apply to songs so that you won’t mimic the original but make it something of your own. This is a process that will take several cycles through each song. Once your skills have improved in the 5 areas taught, you will be able to learn songs a lot faster. For me I have chosen to take that time that could be devoted to learning songs and invest it in learning to play all aspects of the guitar
Wish you all the best in your journey.
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Make sure you save(click on the heart) a challenge you like. After a month or so you will not be able to go back to it unless you saved it.
You will do an audit every 90 days in the challenges. Tony will walk you through his thoughts of setting goals for that 90 days.
Set achievable goals!
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@Corina, I say do what you’re comfortable with. You won’t actually “miss” anything in TAC, as every lesson comes around again. You can even save lessons as favorites and go back to them again and again. I personally changed my focus a couple of years ago from mainly practicing, to mainly playing. Not that I don’t practice, but practice takes about 10% or less of my actual playing time. I play and work on songs. Lots of them. Am I mastering any of them? Not at all. But the point is, I’m playing songs, and the more I play, the easier it is to pick up other songs I want to play. I’ve probably forgotten more songs than I actually know. I’ll spend 15 – 20 minutes on a TAC challenge, and then spend the next hour and a half just playing songs. I’m lucky I get to play a couple of hours a day if I want.
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It really helped me understand the value of TAC when I saw it as a guitar gym. All the challenges are like the barbells and Cables and Pulleys and stacks. Within the gym there are breakouts for specific drilling to develop technique specific skill. I still had to find a team on which to play and sometimes the team is me solo, in fact, that is most of the time. My musical taste is wide and varied and I havent found one group to play with that covers all that I like to play. TAC prepared me to play the guitar using play as the means for discovery and progress. Although if I could find one good Acid Grass group….I think I would be good. : )
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