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  • Alisa

    Member
    June 11, 2021 at 6:25 am

    Welcome to TAC ๐Ÿ™‚ Definitely start with the 30 days to play. The 30 is a suggestive number. It might take you longer, especially if you never played before, or if you’re more advanced it might take you less. It is divided into 4 sections (or weeks) that loop through the major themes: flatpicking, chords, fingerpicking, and scales/improvisation (I believe in that order). When you’re done with that, you can start jumping in on the daily challenges, where you’ll see those themes come back.

    A lot of people are advising to go to the “your next 6 chords” after the “30 days”. I’ll say, yes, but not as the only thing you play. Chords are tough, so the progress through that course will be slow, it is for me. Doing only chords is monotonous and tough on the fingertips. So I strongly suggest mixing fingerpicking and/or flatpicking into it. You can do that with the dailies, or with the jumpstart courses. You can start multiple courses at once and do chords on monday, flatpicking on Tuesday, fingerpicking on Wednesday, fretboard on Thursday, strumming on Friday etc… it is more in the spirit of this website to do something different every day. The progress in a single course is then slower, but you’ll have more fun exploring different styles of playing.

    Final word of advise: don’t get stuck on lessons until they’re perfect, progress is not linear. You can hit complete if you kind of got it, or feel yourself plateau, then move on to the next thing. You’ll automatically get better by playing every day, and you’ll progress faster by trying new stuff. You can go back to completed lessons after a month and will see you are better at it even if you didn’t practice that particular lesson the whole month!

    Good luck ๐Ÿ™‚