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  • Need Guitar Journey Direction

    Posted by Steve on August 17, 2021 at 7:07 pm

    I am approaching my one year Tacaversary. I was a brand new player at this time last year. I completed the 30 day challenge, a few of the challenge courses and am working my way through the fretboard wizard. And now I am trying to get into the daily challenges.

    I have certainly made some guitar playing progress. I can strum and form chords reasonably well but my transitions are slow and it seems to be taking me a long time to get better. Maybe it is that guitar rut so many new players fall into. Also, as a beginner a lot of the daily challenges are difficult for me and I feel like it would take a week plus of practice to become even modestly proficient at most of them. Do I just give it a go, hit complete and move on to the next day?

    So the bottom line is that I am kind of floating around without a clear path on what I should be doing. I know there is a lot of terrific content to explore but does anyone have a compass for someone who is drifting and could use a little direction.

    Ronlad replied 3 years, 5 months ago 5 Members · 7 Replies
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  • dr_dave

    Member
    August 17, 2021 at 8:21 pm

    “Do I just give it a go, hit complete and move on to the next day?”

    Yes – precisely. The daily exercises are targeted at building skills over a long haul. There is roughly a year’s worth of lessons in the can. They repeat. You will be much better at any given exercise when you see it approximately a year later, even though you might not have practiced that specific exercise in many months.

    Don’t expect the relationships between lessons to be obvious. But actually things you practice on other lessons will help your ability to play this lesson, more-or-less subliminally. It’s not about learning specific licks, scales or chord progressions – it’s about learning the skills and developing the muscle memory and dexterity that make it possible. You learn much faster by practicing different things day by day versus trying to get good at one thing before trying something else.

    Doing different challenges day after day makes you better at doing many things. Doing the same exercise day after day might make you good at one thig – or not. You may just be bored to tears!

    • Bill_Brown

      Member
      August 18, 2021 at 9:51 am

      👍

    • Ronlad

      Member
      August 18, 2021 at 12:29 pm

      @dr_dave https://youtu.be/9UZWfMgjqAs

      I am glad I visited this forum today and the corresponding discussions. I am starting to pick up my acoustic guitar and play again after an almost 2-year dormant period.

      Thanks for your response. It helps me as well.

  • dr_dave

    Member
    August 17, 2021 at 8:24 pm

    “So the bottom line is that I am kind of floating around without a clear path on what I should be doing. I know there is a lot of terrific content to explore but does anyone have a compass for someone who is drifting and could use a little direction.”.

    Stay the course. Hang in there with the dailies. Also, after you do your daily lesson, try to play something you like every time you pick up the guitar.

    If any of the dailies strike your fancy and you think you do want to practice it more, don’t forget to click on the favorite icon. This will make it accessible to you even after this month’s lessons disappear.

    • Bill_Brown

      Member
      August 18, 2021 at 9:51 am

      👍

  • Cadgirl

    Member
    August 18, 2021 at 5:38 am

    I don’t know if you are doing anything outside of TAC? You can go to a site called ultimate-guitar and search their easy songs to get familiar with. You can sort by different tunings, style, Beginner to more advanced. I use it myself when it seems i’m in a rut. Good luck.

  • Steve

    Member
    August 18, 2021 at 10:36 am

    Good Advice. Thank you

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