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Thanks Bud for the advise I really appreciate. I understand what you are saying. Trying to do all that and truly stay to 10 minutes a day is not happening for me. following the video, stopping, slowing it down, rewinding it…etc is taking about 30 minutes or more depending if I watch the full video. Then as you guys are mentioning trying to play with the music and/or tabs adds more time. Over the weekend I am trying to do what you guys are recommending and it’s taking me about 1 -1/2 hours to 2 hours. Through the week I just do not have the time to put in 2 hours a day right now.
As true beginner it’s overwhelming. I understand what you are all saying about the 10 minutes practice each day. If I can’t even do one technique that Tony is teaching I feel all I am practicing is watching his videos versus practicing a skill and/or technique at this time. I do understand this is a hard instrument to learn and this is going to take time.
For example this weeks chord hammer Tony is teaching for some reason I am muting my strings when I try to hammer just one string in the C chord. I was trying the skill and did not hear Tony talk about what to do if you are muting the string.
I just currently find the training is too challenging for me as a beginner. To the point I have actually now started to do 1:1 lessons on the side with a guitar instructor which has helped focus the basic repetitive skills, in a progressive manner that I am starting to see progress. I want to be clear, in no way am I saying Tony is not a good Guitar teacher. I am sure if I was doing 1:1’s with Tony I would be having a different experience and he would customize the training for my skill level.
What I would love to see in the training video’s is Tony segment the instruction. First 2 to 4 minutes one basic skill/technique that the student needs to practice for this session. The rest of the video Tony goes into more advance skills/techniques for the rest of the students that are more advance. This way as a beginner I know what exactly to practice until I can follow along with the rest of the video as I get better.