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Hi Brandon,
I’m about 75 days into TAC now and I was a total beginner with guitar. My husband and son plays, but I didn’t know the first thing about them. I had some keyboard skills, so I knew about the musical alphabet, some chords, and notes – basic stuff.
Fast forward 75 days later (2 1/2 months) and I am learning to play songs I like. Not great, but you can definitely identify the melody. I attribute this to Tony’s teachings. As I mentioned, my son plays guitar and he took weekly lessons for five years. He commented the other week that I am learning techniques that took him a year to learn when he had lessons. So I am progressing….
As someone mentioned in the previous post, give yourself time. It takes time to get calluses on your fingers. It takes time to get those fingers stretched the right way and get stronger. It takes time for the muscle memory to kick in.
For example, this week is a benchmark week with Neil Young’s “Old Man”. Weeks ago, I tried a similar chord transition technique and absolutely sucked at it. Today, I tried it and I was able to play the “D” chord transitions. Small win. But the point is that it takes time.
And as someone else mentioned, make mistakes. That is the only way you’ll get better. More mistakes, the better sometimes. Good luck and enjoy the journey. This is a nice community and once you start daily challenges, you’ll see there are more people hanging out at the Daily challenge forums to assist you when you get stuck. Hang in there!!!