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1. “lol, I read through this list of guitar techniques and laughed to myself because I had no clue what you were referring to “palm muting, hammer-ons & pull-offs, scales, double-stops…etc”. I am still trying to learn the C and G chord lol.”
These techniques are taught as part of the daily challenges, and come up often in the challenges, the repetition helps.
@BryanDean has some great comments. You shouldn’t really compare yourself with others. Everyone learns differently and devote different amounts of time and energy to it. I spent a lot of time studying how people learn and perform a lot of those techniques to maximize my practice (spaced practice, selectively applying focus, slow motion learning, visualization, etc). So my progress is going to be a lot different from people who practice daily without these routines. That’s neither good or bad, just a different approach.
I also use the Andante app to track my practice and find it keeps me motivated to practice everyday and keep my minutes of practice up. It’s like trying to get the high score in a game for me.
2. “What supplementary program did you use to help you play songs? Did you also let TAC know that was a limitation of the TAC program so they can improve it for all of us?”
For actual playing of songs use Ultimate Tabs which is a very popular site/app for showing the chord progressions for a song. I’m not really comfortable promoting another online course here on TAC.
Tony’s teaching style is unique and proven. I don’t expect or even want him to change it. I get value from it even if I do feel the need to supplement the training. That is more about me than a reflection on Tony’s method.
I understand what @BryanDean is saying about taking multiple course but disagree. I would get bored with just TAC but it does take effort to implement a practice routine the utilizes multiple courses. I use an app called Modacity to plan my weekly practice sessions so I stay on track and focused. Without that plan I’m lost and don’t maximize my practice sessions.
3. “Also, can you go into a little more detail regarding “helped me with improve”? What type of improv are you referring to and what did TAC teach you that helped with improv?”
In the Daily Challenges almost every Wednesday Tony teaches improv. That weekly repetition has been great for improving my improv skills. In my other course the other participants all struggle with improv and I find it easy because of my exposure here at TAC.