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Great win @stevieblues ! The title of your post reminded me of the song “The Streak” released by Ray Steven’s in 1974. 🙃
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Hey @GerryB56 , yes, you are right we all have those days. So glad you found the inspiration from the TAC community to “play through it”. There are many pearls of wisdom in the community posts. Great win!
Side note, I am also learning about finger style guitar as part of this 90 day cycle. Building that new mental and muscle memory is taking some time for me. I have started each step in the Skills courses at a very slow BPM and work at that speed until it seems my fingers know where to go and what to do. There is a lot going on between fretting and picking! If it takes me days that span a couple weeks I stick with it. I can see my comprehension and competency beginning to grow – proficiency for me will take some time.
I also make sure each day to allocate some time to enjoy playing something I know how to do. For example – run through a couple songs. This helps with my work / reward thought process and keeps me coming back. 😎🎸🎶
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Hi @1967kerbygmail-com and welcome to TAC. As the folks said so well already, the TAC challenges focuse on the guitar fundaments such as technique, licks, improvisation, rhythm and chord transitions. These may be used across many playing situations and also with the songs we might be learning.
The consistent advice I see regarding the challenges is to spend at least 10 minutes on them. If one of them grabs ahold of you and you want to practice that for more time – great! If you need to slow the metronome down when learning or practicing the challenges – do it and don’t feel badly! The key to the challenges is not perfection. The key is that you have spend at least ten minutes on them – consistency and repetitions. There is a method to the way the challenges are arranged from week to week. The knowledge and skill will soak into your brain and muscle memory over time. Once you have at least 10 min on each challenge you may mark or complete. I would encourage you to leave some comments regarding your experience with the challenge. Just a few lines on how it went for you. If you read the comments left by our fellow TACers you will find they range pretty widely based on the person involved and where they are on their guitar journey.
Regarding songs: the skills courses although focused on a particular guitar skill typically conclude with a song we learn to apply the skills. There is also an archive of songs lessons that had been part of TAC in the past, you can find those at this link: https://app.searchie.io/hub/254V7grV3m/
Also, YouTube is filled with videos in which people teaching songs. Or, you can grab tabs and / or chord sheets for songs from somewhere like “Ultimate Guitar Tabs” on the net. There are others out there too.
Hope this was helpful to you. Trust in the TAC system and you will be surprised at the progress you are making. Above all have fun and enjoy your guitar journey! 😃
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This little ditty really made me smile @Philb ! Really like the lick you played and week as the strumming – not to mention to slide up the neck! Very cool! Thanks for sharing.
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@TMutter , enjoyed hearing you debut this song in the VOM and listen again here. Another solid TM song creation!!
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A great win @borch ! Congrats!
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Great improv @Jonathandavid ! I liked your use of the entire neck, the triplets, hammers onsnand pull offs, harmonics, etc. I think you covered it all. Well done an an enjoyable listen! Thanks for posting!
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Sounds great @Fletch . Nothing wrong with that at all! Thanks for sharing!
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Congrats @stevieblues !
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Really cool application of the lock lick @DM1982 . I like the your use of the drone strings and harmonics. Thanks for sharing!
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Great performance @KevinZ ! Your fingerstyle picking was a great fit for the song and as usual your vocals were great. Thanks for sharing!
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Congrats @Rando on your TACiversary and your guitar journey. It sounds like you are learning and having fun! Thanks for sharing your story!
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@charlie_d glad to hear you are doing well. Life gets very busy sometimes and we all need to allocate our time as is required. Stay well and safe!
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@Jonathandavid , I was wondering the same about @charlie_d last week. We haven’t heard from him in a while. I am remembering a few weeks back he indicated he had a pretty hefty load in his “non guitar” life and had some sole catch-up on a number of challenges. It just might be one of those things.
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Meant to add: and the CAGED shape denigration helps us know how to fret the guitar vs what chord we are playing.
The key to linking these two things together is contained in @N-lightMike ’s notes above!