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@Kim-Fitz has it right. You are perhaps feeling overwhelmed because you are expecting to play a significant portion of the lesson the first time you see it. It would be an unrealistic expectation to think you would be able to loop through the daily lesson even at half speed after 10 minutes. What is realistic is to hope you learn one little nugget and feel like you could do just a little something slightly better after 10 minutes than you could at the beginning of the lesson. How much you achieve and retain with each lesson will vary from lesson to lesson, but it’s important to realize that skills are built over time.
When I started TAC seven years ago, I already had a daily practice habit and had been playing for about 4-1/2 years. For roughly the first half of that time, I had taken private lessons. Another interesting aspect was that there was no 5-day program or 30 days to play program. The daily lessons (and the Song Vault, plus a few other lesson things no longer available) were it. At that time, beginners launched into the daily lessons from Day 1 after a few short tutorials explaining how the lessons were structured, etc. They also described the “small wins” concept and emphasized it was important to end each playing session with a positive note and a feeling of accomplishment.
Don’t expect to feel you have mastered the content of any given daily challenge even the third or fourth time through. Understand that you will get a little better at these each time you see them. Over time, you will be surprised by how much you achieve if you truly commit to completing 10 minutes minimum on each daily challenge.
I’d love to hear you weigh in after you have a couple months of daily challenges under your belt.