[Alisa]

This is beautiful. I love the chord embellishments.

[Alisa]

I loved this 🙂 Changing the melody and chords to fit a singing range is a great skill, and the fingerpicking pattern sounded great. If you lead them, they will follow! (the hobits, that is).

Would you be willing the share the tabs/notes sheet of your modified version? This sounds like a lovely song to play on a cold winter night; I’d like to add it to my long-term wish list. Maybe by the time the winter comes around, I’ll be able to play it.

[Alisa]

I loved this

[Alisa]

I had to laugh at the “take 2001” 😂That looks super challenging! The musical phrases were recognizable, and the chords I’m looking forward to hearing how it will progress!

[Alisa]

That was great! I wondered, “can I just play chords without singing?” and your video completely resolved my doubts. Thank you for that! It looks like a fun song to learn for beginners, too, to practice strumming; not an F cord in sight! 😀 This video is a great tutorial for it; thank you for filming your fretting hand so clearly

[Alisa]

That sounds great! I like the philosophy of marking something “complete” for the effort put in, not for reaching a specific goal. It has a yoga-like mindset. There are people of very different levels on this website. When I see the excellent performances in the “play for us” forums or on the open mic nights, I remember that the challenges are also meant to challenge them. That curbs my noob ego a bit 🙂

[Alisa]

That’s totally normal. Whatever you do at the beginning: flatpicking, strumming, fingerpicking, it’s not going to sound like someone who’s been doing it for years. You’ll see what I mean when you get to chords-week 🙂 The best thing to do is not to obsess about it. Just play, and it will get better by itself, through ear-mind-muscle connection. You won’t sound like Tony after 30 days, but you will see (and hear) progress soon enough.

[Alisa]

@DeannaS Can you share the link to Tony’s video please?

[Alisa]

I recommend the daily challenges; they are the heart and soul of this website. It’s fun because each week has its own theme. Like last week was the G-scale and flatpicking, this week is the C-scale and fingerpicking. Then each day of the week has its own theme as well: Mondays are warm-up, Wednesdays are improv, Friday are chords. So it’s a matrix 🤓 . And you’re doing something new every day.

(I write like I know everything, but I’ve only been here for 3 weeks, lol)

Then you can supplement with the skills section. You’re not a beginner, so you can jump into whatever you want to work on. I’m doing the 6 chords because I suck at chords.

[Alisa]

Hi @clguitar I think you might mean yesterday’s challenge or the day before that. This week is all about the C-scale. You can go back to the previous day’s challenges by going to today’s challenge, clicking on “start” and then you’ll see links on the lefthand side.

[Alisa]

I think it could be about preventing content leakage. TAC is trying to expand aggressively; lot’s of youtube advertisements (that’s how I got here). Maybe they calculated that adding many new members will increase the chances of people signing up, downloading all the tabs, and then opting for the “60 days money-back guarantee”.

It can also be a strategic call: if you give people access to everything at once, there is a chance they will binge through a lot of it, get saturated, and quit. If you only release content in small pieces, you’re leaving them wanting more. In the new version of the 50 minutes sales pitch, Tony speaks about how being overwhelmed by content can make progress slower, how the TAC program will decide for you what to play, and when. Perhaps they did some analytics on the old website and concluded that not enough people were doing the dailies and instead were doing random lessons. Or always the same lessons. This might be their way of directing everyone’s attention back to the dailies, so everyone is doing the same lessons on the same day and new lessons every day.

Whatever it is, they clearly made a conscious choice of removing content as part of an expansion. If the expansion works, most users will be new users, unaware of how things were before.

[Alisa]

Thanks! I noticed the Tuesday-to-Thursday connection but only understood the week 1 to 4 progression today, so thank you for that insight.

I guess if you “favorite” every single lesson for a year, you’ll have the pool back, but it won’t be organized, and your favorites page might take 2-3 hours to load 😂

[Alisa]

Not intending to put salt on your wounds, but when you still had a “pool pass,” what was the total number of lessons in it? Is it enough to fill six months, one year, two years of daily challenges? How often do the dailies repeat themselves?

[Alisa]

Thanks, Bill, that might be it for the flatpicking. Further internet research taught me it’s called “percussive techniques.” I found some videos on youtube, but I was hoping there is one here. I like the way Tony really breaks it down and then composes a fun exercise around it.

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[Alisa]

Ha! How to take it from noob to ninja level in only 6 months and $7000😂