What’s next for a beginner?

[albert_d]

Hello Alaska,

From your little buddy Texas, I suggest you get into the daily challenge routine. Give it 10 minutes and look for fun and not mastery. You can also hit the skills or other courses on the side or weekends since the daily challenges are only week days. But mostly keep the fun in it knowing that you trust the process and are building a rewarding habit and routine. It will come.

[Kim-Fitz]

Hi Steve,

Go to the 5 Day Routine. Tony will explain the Daily Challenge and prep you for it. To help you learn the chords and practice them, pick a couple of song you want to learn to play. There are many songs that only use 3 simple chords. Look online for beginner guitar songs or if you have a song in mind look on YouTube for a beginner version. Lots of free teaching out there. Also ditto Albert! Don’t stress about it and have fun! Kim

[StevenEEE]

Thank you Kim and Albert! I definitely made a wrong turn by going to the 6 chords. I turned around and went into the 5-day routine challenge. I’m enjoying the ride!

[shypan]

Hi, I am having the same “struggle” as a beginner. I feel that in jumping into the daily challenges is fun, but I can get no where near the proficiency that I want. I know that it takes time, and I am patient . So I am going through the strumming jumpstart now. Hardest part for me is trying to remember that the daily challenges do not need to be perfect, but I feel as though I still am not “good enough” at the end of the day, but I know all it takes is more practice.

[Kim-Fitz]

Hi shypan,

Tony has members at all different guitar levels . TAC is set up so it can work for a varied level of guitar players. I can see how it would feel intimidating and frustrating for someone starting out.

If I had started TAC as a complete beginner I would have struggled immensely and probably have quite if I had tried to complete the Daily Challenges. You have to lower expectations and work where you are at in your journey. For example, this week’s Thursday guitar challenge “Painted Tape” is rhythm guitar day. You are working on rhythm skills by practicing 2 different strumming patterns, one with muting and one without muting. <font face=”inherit”> If you are unable to play and change the chords required in the challenge, then I would pick one chord I could play and work on the first bar of the strumming pattern. Maybe you spend 10 minutes trying to work on the mute strum pattern with the A chord or the other strum pattern with one chord and that’s it. Maybe you struggle and don’t master either one of the patterns you tried . That is perfectly fine because that’s where you are at. Also mastering the day’s challenge is not what it’s about. Thursday is about rhythm. So what if you master the challenge. Does mastering that day’s challenge make you a master at rhythm? No it doesn’t. But being exposed to and working on different types of rhythms each week will improve your rhythm skills over time. This will show up down the road in your guitar playing. So working on a portion of the challenge at your skill level is still working on rhythm. Just do </font>what<font face=”inherit”> you can each day. </font><font face=”inherit”>Pick out a small section and work on the point of that day’s challenge. </font> <font face=”inherit” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”> Make the daily effort and</font> move on. If you have time, work on something else like a song you want to learn, another strumming pattern, or go through 30 days to play again or some of the other skills courses.

<font face=”inherit”>Don’t sweat it! Have fun! Over time you will see </font>improvement<font face=”inherit”> in your playing and the </font>challenges will<font face=”inherit”> feel more </font>doable.

Kim

[shypan]

Thank you for the reply. Sound advice and I will look at it that way. Fun is the goal!