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First Benchmark comment
I have had 2 guitars for about 30 years and started reading Mel Bay and Harry Reser guitar chords and practices with little to no excitement. Needless to say I never maintained practice and never got better. Then I retired and decided to actually take some lessons one day a week. Great teacher but one day a week left me asking questions on one day and trying to muscle throughout the rest of the week.
Then I saw TAC on YouTube and took a chance on his 5 Day challenge, which progressed to the 30 day pre-course which I completed in about 15 days. Even with some prior training, it was still tough enough that i should go back through it 3 more times ;-). My rhythm is not smooth, but I am progressing and that is in great part to Tony’s reinforcement program.
Having started the 30 day challenge on the 7th of Dec, it is now the 2nd of Jan and I am enjoying the challenge, and fun, learning to hammer on and slide Neil Young’s Old Man song. My transitions are too slow to maintain the rhythm, but my wife says I am clearly learning and playing cleaner chords…..I never thought I’d be pleased to receive back handed compliments about how “that almost sounded like the song”.
I don’t like not being good quickly, but I keep learning more chords each week and TAC lets me work on scales and fingering techniques on many of the chords I strum to each week.
Over all believe TACis a program/process that I will stick with and will be amazed how well I play next Christmas.
Living the dream in Pace, Florida and can’t wait to take the guitar to the beach this summer.
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Welcome @williamgersbachgmail-com – You made the right choice coming to TAC, it really has no peers when you evaluate the program as a whole. I’ve been here 16 months but there are many members with 5 or more years that will swear by it as well. Some might be better in one small aspect or another, but all in around effectiveness nothing can hold a candle to it.
No need to repeat the 30 Days over and over, you are good to go. We always favor progress over perfection. By moving forward you will soon see those things in 30 Days show up again in spades and you will gradually improve.
I suspect that with the head start you had coming in, you will move through the challenges with a little more ease than some of us. That means that you can develop some of the higher level things sooner than we did.
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Thanks for the advice…I do tend to over work trying to get perfect quickly, which is unobtainable, but I do see improvement and am taking to heart to just move on after working through the techniques. I won’t feel guilty not being perfect and that will make it more fun. Thanks.
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No worries @williamgersbachgmail-com ! Don’t be hard on yourself for being hard on yourself! lol!
Many of us have had perfectionism drilled into us from early childhood, and most of the teaching in our country and many other cultures as well demands a high level of proficiency throughout our lives.
The TAC program is different. Unlike our education systems, there are no grade levels, exams or diplomas required to enter the next level. All challenges are in a sense equal, but not identical. The structure is cyclical, entry is open after basic intro (30 Days to Play and 5 Day Routine) and you can step in winter, spring, summer or fall.
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