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Advice on Navigating the Course
Hi Everyone –
I am about 2 1/2 months in and really enjoying myself. Finished the 30 Day Challenge and have since been doing to Daily challenges. I simply started the week after I completed the 30 Day Challenge and have stayed on each week as it comes (even if I was away on vacation for 2 separate weeks, I simply pick back up where I left off). Based on all that I’ve read in the Community Forum, that seems a perfectly fine approach.
My question is how do all of you incorporate the Skills Challenges (Learning the Fret Board, Your Next 6 cords, etc.)? Do you put the Daily Challenges on hold while you do the Skills Challenges? Do them both each week? It may not matter, but I thought I’d check for some best practices.
Thank you in advance!
Steve P.
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2 Replies
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Hi Steve, welcome to the TAC community! You know it just really depends on what your journey looks like to you. When I started, I was brand new to guitar and I focused just on the 30 days to play the next five chords or six chords however, many there are and then I went to the dailies, but I shortly after that started doing the skills courses and you can take them at your own leisure. It’s whatever appeals to you there’s nothing set in stone. I think the first ones I took were the jumpstart to strumming and jumpstart to finger picking and they give you actually some a song under each that you play as you’re learning it and the rest just as you want to don’t forget to take a look at the roadmap and then in the skill section look at I think it’s start here it says, but it covers the essentials like the basics that you should take. It’s very important to take the stretching because you don’t want to have an injury, which could knock you out for several months upwards of a year I for one had a tendinitis and tennis elbow and it took me out of commission for a good almost 6 months of playing so it’s very very important that you stretch and keep an eye on things and if you ever have pain stop immediately if you notice any swelling I said immediately that type of thing, especially when we’re first learning because we don’t realize how much we’re trying to stretch our hands and we just haven’t gotten the dexterity down yet
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Look at the Quick Start Guide on the Challenges home page. This is your road map that I think @Loraine is talking about.
I would suggest to do the current daily challenges and not try to (pick up where you left off). There isn’t a sequence in the yearly calendar, everything comes back around. Also the comments under the daily challenges are both fun and often useful and you would be partially missing out on these, because the comments would be dated instead of same day or hour.
Also there is no need to complete all challenges in a given week or even all measures of a daily challenge. It’s your path and just do enough that you are challenged for as long as it is fun. Next time you will most likely be able to do more.
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