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Is there any full songs to learn on this site?
I have started out now for a month and half and love all the techniques and skill courses but have not found one complete song to learn to play? Does these courses not cover any songs rather just bits of songs??
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This discussion was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by
CCameron.
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This discussion was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by
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@CCameron this question is asked about 2-3 times a month on TAC.
The answer is, it isn’t that kind of site. Here are a couple of links to the same question asked in the past:
https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/topic/songs-to-learn/#post-2159693
https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/topic/are-there-actually-songs/
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Thanks for the help – i am beginning to understand – this will give me the tools to play songs but individual songs will be up the individual – makes sense.
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Yes, you are on to it. I am quite sure Tony does this intentionally. He prefers not to show you one way to play a song, when there are literally hundreds of ways to play any song. His methods show you how to take the song and dress it up – make it your own! When you have learned enough from TAC you will be able to learn as many songs as you want to, but much more quickly than today (if you are like me with limited skills).
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There are actually a number of such threads that go into depth about why it can be counterproductive to throw your energy into learning songs, I didn’t find such a thread in my time available to answer you. I think it was @the-old-coach who gave some of the best replies
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Now that I have another guitar coach, I am also gaining another perspective. What she says about learning songs is “keep doing it! It is so good to learn songs, is so important to learn songs, sometimes songs can be the best teachers if you learn the why and the how behind them. But we don’t want to get in the habit of where we are just learning songs. Be at least figuring out what key they are in, which scales they are using etc. We want to focus on things that make us better for when we do learn songs.”
So don’t let the song learning get in the way of your learning guitar! If you are going to add a new song to your playlist, then use it to advance your understanding of the nature of the instrument. “We are learning to speak the language of the guitar”.
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I’ve been a TAcer for about 9 1/2 months. In that time I have used the tools that I have developed in the daily lesson to put together about 6 songs that I’ve written and play pretty much every day. My song writing skills are growing daily. For me that is priceless. Yes, I have taken the skills learned here to work on my version of Hotel California, Brown Eyed, Girl, Angel From Montgomery, Ain’t no sunshine, Friend of the Devil, Fast Car, on an on and on. i Could play these tunes before TAC but now They sound like me, not a copy of a song but a personal interpretation of those songs. Again priceless and personal. I did not develop those skills on other sites, I just copied what was taught and didn’t copy it very well.
This teaching method works for me. I also belong to Songster and K.O. stringworks and they are much easier than they were before I began practicing with this group of helpful and resourceful characters.
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Good stuff – thank you guys for explaining this and makes alot of sense – i am starting to branch out dabbling in a few songs but understand learning guitar language first will make the songs come easier . Regards Colin
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I took lessons many years ago. I was taught how to read music (no tabs back then). Each week I was given a song sheet and learned how to play it. I learned a number of songs that way until the course was over. But, and this is a big but, if you took that sheet away from me I was still totally lost. I had learned to play sheet music but I still hadn’t learned how to play the guitar. So I think Tony’s way of teaching technique is much better. Applying that technique to play any song is going to be light-years ahead of just reading and playing a sheet of music. I hope that makes sense.
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