Moose408
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TAC works with electric, I often switch up between my acoustic and electric for the daily challenges.
That being said I do use a course called Beginner Guitar Academy that is more focused on the electric guitar. It is a HIGHLY structured course and I have found it to be a great complement to TAC. I’ve been with TAC for 2.75 years and Beginner Guitar Academy for 2.5 years and both have made me a better guitar player.
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Here is a spreadsheet with links to all of the daily challenges
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I am pretty sure Tony has not ever done a Black Crowes song. There is the Angel From Montgomery which was in January.
Here is a link to the spreadsheet with all of the daily challenges for the past couple years. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10CGaT6CrZ783_tw-burdSd7W_KWiliiei03_h0T5dgA/edit?usp=sharing
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Tony stopped having those in the Fall of 2023
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Welcome Joe. I just went through the lesson and the tab seems to match what Tony is playing and demonstrating. Here is a link to the tab https://tonypolecastro.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/The-Blues-Bassline-30D2P.pdf
What part do you think is in error?
Since you are new are you sure you are reading the tab correctly. I know when I started the 30-days to play I was constantly flipping the tab, thinking the bottom of the tab was the bottom high E string on the guitar instead of the thickest E string at the top of the fretboard.
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So sorry to hear that Loraine. Healing mojo sent.
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The motto here at TAC is progress over perfection.
In the beginning many of the challenges are going to be well challenging. You are not expected to perfect them before moving on. You are expected to try them for 10 mins, do the best you can and then move on. The first time through you might only be able to do the first line or perhaps on the first measure. That’s OK. The challenges come around again and the next time you will get a little further. I’m on 9th time through on the Ain’t no Sunshine benchmark and this was the first time I could get through the whole thing, although still not perfect. The first time through I could only do the first line.
It goes against our nature to move in before perfecting the exercise but that it how it is designed. And it gets results if you trust the system.
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I hit the strings with my first knuckle, not my nails. I think of it like knocking on a door. Same hand shape and hit.
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Progress over perfection is the motto.
There have been many challenges that I could not get through the first or even 2nd time through. I’m now starting to see challenges for the third time and some of the ones I struggled with are now clicking. There are still ones I struggle with.
My advice is to try for 10 mins. If it is really difficult just work on the first line or heck even just the first measure. Sometimes that would be all I could get through. That’s ok. It part of the process and over time it will start to click.
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He means to learn the scale so you recreate it. That could be whatever works for you, the pattern, the notes, the intervals, the string/fret positions, etc.
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The advice for anything you get stuck on is slow it down and isolation.
Do it painfully slow, so slow that you don’t make a mistake. When you can do it 3 times in a row without a mistake speed it up. I use a metronome and will speed it up 5 or 10 bpm at a time. If I make 3 mistakes in a row I slow it down by 5 or 10 bpm. Keep it slow. By doing it slow and concentrating it tells the brain that this is important and it will start remembering it.
Isolation. When learning a strumming pattern ignore the fretting hand and focus on just the strumming hand. The brain can’t learn 2 things at once, so isolate the 1 thing you are trying to learn.
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First don’t be too hard on yourself, you are only 2 weeks into your guitar journey and learning the guitar is hard. It can be frustrating but just realize that when you are frustrated you are often learning. It took me 9 months to get a consistent clean C chord. Patience is your friend. My motto is I suck at guitar, I will suck for a long time, it’s ok to suck.
Now for some concrete things you can do to improve your chords. Slowly place your fingers on the chords, then pick out each string and if it buzzes or is muted do micro adjustments with your fingers until it rings clear. Do this with each string and when you have them all sounding good do one strum and hear what it should sound like. Then remove your hand and repeat. Do this for 3-5 mins for each chord every day. Some you will notice improvement in a week or two, some chords it may be months. Don’t get frustrated just do the routine.
Also play around with your thumb position on the back of the neck. Every one is different based upon our anatomy. I have to put my thumb in the middle of the neck or sometimes lower to get the finger spread needed for some chords. Experiment and see what causes the best sounding chords for you.
Hope this helps and enjoy the learning journey.
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If you scroll down you should see a calendar. Just click on the day you want.
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Ideally start on a Monday. But there is no need to go back and work on ones you have already done. In the beginning you are not expected to complete many of the Daily Challenges. Spend 10+ mins on it, mark it complete, and then move on to the next challenge the next day. Progress over perfection is the motto.
The Daily Challenges repeat, so the first time through you might only be able to do the first line or maybe only the first measure. The next time through you will get further, by the 3rd or 4th time you will have spent enough time playing guitar that you can probably get through the entire challenge.
So try your best but don’t try to perfect it, it will come around again.
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Actually 2 years ago. Sad that things haven’t improved.
It is not that hard to make a fast web site. I worked on web sites since there were web sites. It sounds like Tony’s web site guys are just incompetent or they are not willing to spend the money on proper hosting.
