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You are welcome, Mark @the-old-coach ;
I have found it very important in my life to recognize my gratitude and then express it. And TAC is a great example of why it’s so important. I was here before TAC shifted to this platform. It’s very different, which means some things we had before are no longer here. That caused a lot of people to get upset. I recognized how much Tony had given me and therefore gave him the respect to “allow” him to make decisions on how best to guide TAC moving forward (not as if I could do anything about it, but by “allowing” him, I was maintaining a positive attitude).
Of course, now it’s easy to see that TAC has improved a lot over the previous platform. And when I say improved, I specifically mean the teaching platform. But that’s what TAC is and that’s why we all joined TAC.
A side effect of TAC was a social forum. That isn’t the same. But if the interest was strong enough in the community, the socializing that took place wouldn’t die, it would continue in another form. And it has. But it was never incumbent on TAC to keep feeding that social media side of TAC. If we want to make friends, we don’t wait for others to approach us and introduce themselves, we take the initiative to approach others. But that’s a side bar.
So many people left TAC and therefore can’t know how much TAC has improved. I have the knowledge and guitar skills that I can do pretty much all the lessons. Yeah, but does that mean there is no longer any benefit for me? Absolutely not.
What I’ve found, is the farther along my guitar journey I am, the more the lessons refine my technique. And that’s across the board of guitar skills. I thought TAC was the best before, and now TAC has improved.
The benefit of TAC in the long run is pretty simple to understand. Tony comes up with lessons and exercises that challenge him. That means, you would have to be better than Tony, a lot better, to think that every single lessons was easy and contained no challenge. For me, TAC will always help me improve because I don’t think I will ever be as good as Tony.
That’s a lot more than I intended to say. I guess there’s some good thoughts there that I could put into my 4th TACiversary post which I’ve never made.
MG 😀