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Welcome to 30 Days to Play! This is a very special month of daily guitar challenges designed to teach you the basics of guitar while helping you build a regular guitar playing habit. Download the 30-Day Challenge Guide & Checklist and pin it up on your bathroom mirror. Once you've completed this course, take the5-Day Guitar Routine Challenge.  

The 5-Day Guitar Routine Challenge is your bridge between 30 Days To Play (where most new TAC members should start) and the Daily Guitar Challenges. This challenge will give you deeper insight into each of the 5 categories of guitar improvement, how to use the features of TAC, and important coaching that will prepare you for your guitar journey here at Tony's Acoustic Challenge.

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This course will focus on the two most important barre chord shapes you will need 99% of your time playing. This just may be the guitar game changer you are looking for.

This course will show your guitar's shape shifting powers. For these lessons your guitar will take the form of a banjo. You will learn open G tuning, how to use fingerpicks, and banjo specific techniques that you can employ on your guitar. Once you have gone through this course you will feel the power of the banjo coursing through your veins, into your picking fingers, and out of your guitar. Get ready because these techniques are sure to incite a spontaneous hoedown.

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Welcome to the Capo Comprehension Course!!! This is a course that will teach you the ins, outs, and arounds of the capo. You will be taken on a tour de force of the capo and how it can benefit your playing in so many ways. Upon completing this course you will be able to confidently apply the capo, adjust it for voice matching, adjust it to transpose to the chord shapes you want, and you will learn some more unconventional ways of using the capo. Once you have gone through these lessons you can consider yourself a capo connoisseur!!!

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One of the best things that you can do right now to make guitar playing pain free, prevent injury, and even play faster is to stretch. It can be difficult to try and figure out what stretches will work best for you as a guitar geek though, which is why this course will walk you through a step by step stretching process that you can use day in and day out to work your way towards pain-free and limber guitar geek muscles. Quick disclaimer: Although these stretches were shown to me by a medical professional, I am not one, so please consult your physician before trying these. With that out of the way, enjoy these stretches and may you reap all of the benefits that they will bestow on your guitar playing.

This course is for those who wish to continue applying their fretboard knowledge gained during the Fretboard Wizard course. The alternate tunings course will take the chord matrix, chord tonality, and scale construction and offer a real world way to apply those very concepts to decode any major or minor alternate tuning so you can use it as a creative tool in your guitar toolbox. This course will offer: 1.) A quick review of the chord matrix, chord tonality, and scale construction concepts 2.) A method do get your guitar into any alternate tuning you wish (major or minor) 3.) A method to quickly find a single string scale in any tuning and then convert that to a closed position scale. 4.) A framework to find and define both major and minor chords within the new tuning

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This fingerpicking jumpstart course will take you from not knowing a thing about fingerpicking all the way to playing your first song in this highly addictive guitar style. This course will help you see finger style as a combination of many small and easy moving parts that when combined make your guitar sound like a piano. This course will help you conquer the alternating thumb, integrate pinches, understand how eighth notes work, and how to incorporate chord modifications; all necessary parts of the finger style pie. When you are done with this course you will understand some of the why’s and how’s of basic finger style technique.

This bootcamp is designed to be a workout for honing in and sharpening your fingerpicking skills. It will no doubt be a challenge and that being the case it is truly rewarding. This is designed to progress you through each component of fingerpicking from exercises based solely on thumb movement all the way to rolls and even some fingerpicking obstacle courses. This bootcamp is meant to be a resource for you to come back through time and time again, in fact I would recommend popping into this bootcamp at least every other month because it will help keep those fingerpicking skills at the ready for anything that comes your way.

This flatpicking quick start course will take you from not knowing anything about flatpicking technique all the way to playing your first song in this traditional guitar style. This course will help you understand how to properly hold a flatpick, and then use that proper grip to execute a smooth down and up stroke. You will also learn the golden rule of flatpicking, which will unlock the door to the magical flat picking world. String skipping, two essential major scales, and mixed note values will also be discussed to prepare you to learn the staple jam tune, Billy in the Lowground.

The single most important skill to be able to freely navigate your guitar's fretboard is to be able to find any note, on any string, anywhere on the fretboard. Yes, it sounds like a tall order that involves a whole boatload of memorization, but it doesn't. With the Foundations of Fretboard Navigation course, you will not only learn a quick method to find any note anywhere without memorization. In addition to the find any note framework, you will also get access to 5 patterns that amplify your note finding abilities. These patterns will allow you to find multiple notes quickly, and they will connect you to the power of moveable chords, scales, and even the CAGED system. This is truly your foundation when it comes to anything on the fretboard.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to find a song's key by ear so you can quickly play along with any song or dissect it to find it's melody, chords, and notes, figure out the chords to any song by ear so you can decode the chord progression, learn to transpose songs to any key at will so you can play with other musicians comfortably in any key, and you'll understand the improvisation & melody framework so you can have a system to improvise and have an endless well of good musical ideas whether soloing at a jam or creating your own melodies.