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Thx @rickyk76 and @jumpinjeff and @Cadgirl and @was-Dan for this thread on the ads on Acoustic Tuesday and new directions of TAC. The Acoustic Tuesday shows I’ve seen recently have more playing detail than the Skills section, and maybe there’s a business model based on YouTube as a platform—with eyeballs monetizing ads rather than just monetizing thru subscription-based Acoustic Challenge. But that’s not my primary concern.
@rickyk76,I’ve referred to myself as a newbie, but meant a newbie to this TAC site, I’ve been playing for decades and just wanted to play the ever-growing number of songs I sing and play with a jam buddy with more intricacy when we play acoustic–(my electric guitar is another instrument entirely)–and you know, we all have our guitar heroes and reasons we picked up the guitar in the first place, so we have an idea of what guitar sounds we’d like to emulate.
I don’t need to pay someone a lot of money to push me to play, which is Tony’s key observation when he promotes TAC on a long ad I came upon first in late April, after a podcast I was listening to. The other TAC goal is to create community, but it’s weird to me that the administrators don’t foster community by chiming in to questions raised in the forums. I see you have a forum for acoustic players.
You commented on how Skills are and will also be just intro courses, without any “part 2” to build further skills in those areas. Which is what I wanted to know more about. For Slide in the Skills, all I want to do is at least sound like I know what I’m doing when I’m playing slide….I would’ve liked to have some background with how slide maestro Derek Trucks goes about it(Tony shows Derek playing briefly on an Acoustic Tuesday), and some notion of where are the chord tones and minor pentatonic notes for the free fingers when you’re playing slide/open tuning.
Since I sing and play, I’m mainly creative chords and fills player, with an occasional solo during instrumental break (my jam buddy is better at that than me),,,,,but wanted to play some acoustic stuff more maturely, esp. some percussive alternate tuning melodic fingerstyling;, there are a few TAC Skills courses about fingerstyle, it’s hard stuff esp. when you’re singing too, but for those players who tend to play every song with strum and fill in standard tuning and want to expand, it would be great if TAC could meld the fingerstyle Skills with alternate tunings Skills…but there’s no one at administrative level to address this with..
Anyway, @rickyk76thx for pointing out your views on TAC’s curriculum emphasis, and your key observation that any promises made without timelines are meaningless.