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Moving ahead
Just wondering what other people in this class do if the master a lesson. Do you move ahead to tomorrow’s lesson, go back to an old one or just take a break.
Any help here would be appreciated.
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If you are doing the daily challenge the day it comes out you cannot move ahead. You have to wait for the next day.
TAC is the start of every day’s practice session, after spending a minimum of 10 mins on the challenge I then move on to my other practice items for the day. I have another online school that I use that always has skills for me to practice and I have lessons from my in person teacher. So never a lack of things to work on.
I discovered that I do need to write down my practice schedule for the week or I will end up skipping skills or spending too much time on others. So I rotate through 2 skills each day. The skills are picking, chords, arpeggios, rhythm, aural, notes & scales. At the end of my practice session I work on songs.
So a typical day will be: TAC Daily Challenge, 2 skills, one or 2 songs.
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Steve, it looks like you may me going through 30 Days to Play. In that series I think you can move forward any time you like.
I wouldn’t worry about “mastering” any challenge in TAC. Just give it your best for at least 10 minutes and then mark it complete. It doesn’t matter if you actually go through the entire challenge or not. The skills involved are taught repeatedly and will come back around.
If you want to go back to an old lesson, feel free to do so! I have several favorites that I go through regularly. As long as it’s fun, keep doing it. You can set up your schedule the way @Moose408 has done, but just beware of it turning into work! He uses words like “practice” and “work on” which are very much in the realm of work. We actually frown on work around here, we play guitar! But it is ok to struggle a little bit, because when we struggle is where we are actually being pushed and learning the most.
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Like Moose I’m pretty much involved in music practice throughout the day. This course 1st thing each day. Which ever song we are working on I usually also check on Songster to see if there is any lessons that involve what we are working on the week. I have a couple of binders that are next to my music stand the contain all TAC lessons in one of them. The other binders have songs or other exercised that i try to incorporate throughout the week. So I am picking up one of my many guitars through out the day and going over something musical, maybe exercises or scales or developing licks in whichever key I’m working with on that given day. Sometimes I just noodle and the time slips away.
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