Exercise 5 or 3 or 1

[Philb]

Hello @J.Dubs , welcome to TAC!

I may not be understanding you right; but in each video at the lower right hand corner, there are some controls. One of those has a 1x. You can adjust that down, to slow the tempo down to less beats per minute (.5 at half speed for example), or speed it up to go faster (1.5 for example). There are 7 different speed choices. That way you can play along with the “play” of each video at a speed you are comfortable with, and speed up as you get better.

[J.Dubs]

Philb – yes, I think you are correct, I was thinking about the 1x settings. I’ll play around with those. I thought I tried once but it sounded weird. Thanks again!!

[Bill_Brown]

Hi @J.Dubs , Welcome to TAC.

I think you’re referring to the “Quick Draw” chord fretting exercises where Tony counts down from 5 to 0 and you have to fret and strum the particular chord by 0. Those are old videos from before the last format change (March 2021). All of the older lessons used to have 3 videos, each at a different speed (in this case they had 3 videos that started the count down at different numbers – 5,3 & 1). In the current format, there is now a speed icon as @Philb is referring to which allows you to change the speed of the video and thus the timing. However, in the case of these “Quick Draw” lessons, the speed icon is not of any help because it doesn’t work out mathematically from the 5 to 3 to 1 counts. So the best thing to do is use the video at normal (1x) speed and wait until the count down reaches 3 and then 1 to start the process of fretting and strumming the chords. These are great exercises for learning to fret chords. I still use it today to practice fretting chords that I’m not familiar with or don’t use often enough and need to be able to transition into quickly.

Good luck and enjoy the journey😎

• This reply was modified 3 years, 12 months ago by  Bill_Brown.

[J.Dubs]

Thanks Bill, yeah I think I was referring to the speed, 1x…and so on. I’ll play around with that setting!