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Thoughts After One Year of TAC
So my first year anniversary with TAC came in September this year. I’ve enjoyed the experience. Learned a lot and eagerly signed up for another year. I enjoy the structure and the process. When I started, I went through the various challenge exercises. I log in every day, some days 3 or 4 times. Since renewing though, all I’ve seen is repeated lessons. All of the lessons for October and November are repeated lessons within the last year. This is 8 weeks in a row of repeated lessons. I understand the Benchmark concept for the 4 tunes named as part of that. And I can say I see improvement each time Wagon Wheel, Hotel California, etc., come around. But 8 weeks of the same material? Is this what I should expect going forward?
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Yes – it’s all the same content. I don’t think there’s been anything new in the rotation or this site in years. Same lessons, same slow site speed, no added features. I just accepted that and for me it’s kind of about the repetition and going back over lessons again and again and seeing improvement in those lessons over time as they come back around. But I stopped my regular daily TAC visits a few months ago and rarely come back other than just to see if there’s any new features or if the site speed has improved. So far, nothing. “And the sun rose, having no alternative, on the nothing new” -Sam Beckett.
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Thanks Sam. I was afraid that was the case. Certainly not what I was expecting though. I do require lots of repetition, as I think most people do. But no new material in years? I have to admit I didn’t see that one coming.
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Hi JJC, yes all the lessons repeat about every 8-9 months or so. I is so you can compare progress over time to see improvement. If you and others are looking for newer content, reach out to Victoria in customer service and make the recommendation. The more that do, the better the chance for new material. Although, the material will actually be the same, because they are all foundational skills.
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Some new songs would be nice, a reggae song or 2 would be cool. I wonder if Tony even checks in daily to see how his site is doing?
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I suggest member write Victoria in customer support. I’m sure that is the quickest way to get suggestions to Tony and the team.
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Loraine, I contacted Victoria when I first saw the lessons for November, which at least for me, considering October as well, made it 8 weeks in a row of repeated material. She said they were working on new material. But she didn’t say when to expect them. I have to admit I had not suspected that this site was on Auto Pilot. Thanks for your comments.
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I keep waiting for the new notes to be introduced to the music scale….at that point I WILL need new content from TAC.
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Then I guess all your expectations are fulfilled here. Good for you.
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yes it is great for me…now how do we get you to the same place!? TAC may not be your vector. It could be. One thing I do know is that wherever you find yourself, training your mind to embrace repetition will serve to make you a better player….what is music if it is not expressive repetition of theme and motif? Repetition and Form with variation for flavor….I tried to learn the variations without learning the forms and that is when I was most frustrated. Every session I play now ends in a small win. Not because every session is better than the previous, but because it is how I was trained to play…trained to play here. This is a golden key. This is the key to me becoming the player I always dreamed of being.
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Indeed! no expectations, just progress beyond anywhere I thought I would ever be able to go. I showed up with nothing but expectations when I joined. It was my expectation that was killing my enjoyment and as directly curtailing my progress. Expectation was where my fun went to die. When my expectation was replaced with a “trust the process” mentality, my progress ramped and allowed me to do something I had not been able to do before. It is kinda cool when you try to do something all life long unsuccessfully and then find a way that works. I also had to deal with 2 additional things to get on board the crazy progress train and both were related to the nature of music. Music is both repetitive/motif heavy and formatted. Took me a while to figure that out. Those formats get repeated over and over with variation…..I came assuming the variations were what I needed to learn…I was wrong….I needed to to learn the formats before I could learn the variations.
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Jeff, I do expect we come from very different places. My mother started me on piano lessons at 5 years old. Those lessons continued weekly until I was 12. I then took up the trumpet in the school band. That lasted for 6 years. In my 20’s I bought a guitar. I took a few lessons, but really wasn’t financially in a place to continue. I learned Cowboy Chords, and played for a number of years, but never really felt like I knew anything. In my 50’s I bought a banjo. I have played clawhammer for past 15 years. I play at jams and have been in several bands. But my true desire was to play the guitar. I do love the structure of this site. The weekly focus and daily lessons are unique compared to other options. I appreciate the Benchmark tunes and their frequency. And like I expect most people, I see improvement with each of those weeks. I get excited thinking about what’s coming next week. At least I used to, until I discovered that after 1 year, I’ve basically see it all here. Like you said, there aren’t any new notes in the scale. As I said before, I did not expect that this site is basically on autopilot. I paid for another year before knowing this, and that’s just a little frustrating for me. I will continue to login every day, just as I have done for the past year. I will do the lessons and I will no doubt grow and improve, but I will be disappointed because I assumed the Benchmark tunes were the only thing being repeated here. I guess my fault. I appreciate your comments and your time.
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