The daily lessons are the meat and potatoes of the course – literally the potatoes this week: mashed potatoes with a boatload of gravy and buckets of butter. What is likely confusing to most people is that some of these exercises are very hard and don’t seem very “beginnerish.” Because people can’t “master” them in 10 minutes, they think they are in the wrong place. But they are not in the wrong place after all. You don’t need to play these exercises very well to derive benefit. The benefit comes from doing the best you can with them with a modest amount of practice. Even if you can’t play them very well, 10 minutes of focused practice on each day’s lesson is quite sufficient to build skills over time.
Learning to play guitar is fun, but it is hard fun. That’s one what makes it addictive. If you are the sort of person that needs to have instant success, guitar is not where you’ll find it. But if you stick with the program, you will have small wins. Over a period of time, the small wins will add up and you will gradually come to a point where you can play many of the daily exercises at least at a slow speed. At first, you might get only pieces of them. That’s good enough. To be able to play songs that are worthwhile, in my opinion, requires many small wins to come together. Fingers need to toughen up and learn where they need to be on the fretboard, your picking hand needs to learn to synchronize with the fretting hand and eventually come to a point where you’re not requiring conscious thought to direct every move.
If this is not the right path for you, I wish you luck in whatever you choose. You reached out to your peers in the community via your post. (“Community” is your fellow members, not TAC staff.) Is there anything we can do to help you on your journey? As for ice cream, the best I can do is send it virtually. I hope you like French Vanilla – I find it goes best with the fresh blueberry pie I am including.