Moose408
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Vimeo or link to a video file on Dropbox or Google Drive
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Lorraine summed it up pretty good but thought I would add a few details.
Start on a Monday, as the week progresses each day will build on the previous lessons. It resets every Monday with a new model song and set of lessons.
The goal is progress over perfection. Some Daily Challenges will come easy and you can get through the whole thing each day, others you will struggle to get through the first measure. That is OK. Do your best, try for at least 10 mins then move on. The lesson will come around again and you will get further the next time. You are not expected to get through each Daily Challenge.
The techniques being taught one week will also appear in other weeks with a different model song. So you don’t have to wait an entire year for a particular technique to come around again. Similar techniques are scattered throughout the year in various weeks.
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If you need to go further back I have a spreadsheet of all past lessons.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10CGaT6CrZ783_tw-burdSd7W_KWiliiei03_h0T5dgA/edit?usp=sharing
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Tony stopped doing those 2.5 years ago.
It was around the time of the birth of his latest child and Tony seems to have slowed down and backed away from the site. It was just after he had recorded a full year’s worth of challenges (which repeat every year), so no pressure to create new content.
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Click on the icon on the lower right of the video.
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TAC is designed differently than most guitar courses. The idea is that you get exposed to a new concept you spend 10 mins trying it and the you move on.
Progress over perfection.
You are not expected to learn everything from the daily challenges the first time through, but they come around again and the next time you get a little further and then the next time even further. This spaced exposure is what makes TAC work.
Don’t spend time on past challenges, just do today’s challenge, do the best you can even if that is just one measure, then move on. Over time they will get easier and then one day you will realize you just went through the entire challenge on the first pass.
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I’m the same as @Skyman911 and use it when the song has a lot of C to G transitions. Otherwise I will use the more traditional fingering. It’s to the point that it’s unconscious which one I use. My fingers just go to whichever is the most convenient (which is kind of weird when I think about it)
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The 30 day course is the right place to start. You are new to guitar, everything is going to be hard and you are not going to be able to do it all. That’s ok and expected. The motto here is progress over perfection. Try your best, do what you can for the day and move on. You may have to do the same skills the next day that you struggled with the previous day. That is as designed, you will struggle with it again, but because you are being exposed to it over and over your brain will start to recognize it and you will get better at it. Progress is going to be slow.
A couple things to keep in mind.
- Guitar is hard. You are going to suck in the beginning, you are going to suck for a long time, it’s ok to suck.
- The most important thing you can do is show up every day.
- Don’t get frustrated. You are trying to make your fingers do things they have never done before. Progress is going to be slow and incremental. Just strive to get just a little bit better everyday.
- Don’t get hung up on any daily exercise. Do the best you can and then move on. The skills required will come around again and will become a easier each time you see them.
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Congrats on 11 years! It sounds like you have arrived at one final destination in your guitar journey and are now setting your sights on the next destination. I look forward to visiting all of the same waypoints you have visited during your journey. Here’s to continuing the journey!
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The C chord is hard for every beginner. I just looked at my practice log and I could kind of do a C chord around 3 months but couldn’t always transition to it fast enough, that was around 7 months and I didn’t get really comfortable with it until around 15-16 months.
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Yep, completely different content. Instead of using Responsive Web Design they are using an old method that presents different portions of the web site depending upon screen size and nobody ever updated the small screen section.
Tony should really fire his web team and get one that knows what they are doing, things like this and the slowness of the site are embarrassing for a website in 2026. I could recreate the entire web site and have it both fast and responsive in a less than a month. There is nothing special going on here, It is not that hard.
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As Pete said your hands are not to small. One issue may be the way your hand is positioned on the neck.
- Try adjusting where your thumb is on the back of the neck, lowering it allows your fingers to spread out more.
- Make sure the thumb is behind your other fingers and not way off to the right.
- Try raising the neck as that also helps with reach.
- Another common issue with beginners is tipping the fret board towards you so you can see what you are doing, if it is severely tilted it can cause issue reaching certain strings.
Feel free to post a short video of your attempt to play a G chord and we can offer more concrete suggestions.
<div>Every one of us struggled with the G chord (and the C chord, and pretty much every chord) when we were just starting out. It just takes time you will get it, and it will eventually become second nature.</div>
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This reply was modified 4 months ago by Moose408.
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Singing and playing together is hard. They are different skills and you have to have at least one of them engrained so it is automatic. It took me 12 months to be able to play and sing a few simple songs. For songs that had complicated rhythm patterns it took me 2 years.
Pete’s suggestion to hum is a good one, it is much easier than singing and helps you develop the right rhythm, after humming it for a few weeks I will then start singing it in my head, and then after another few weeks will sing out loud. It something that you need to practice regularly, just like you practice the guitar.
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The repetition is important and part of the process. The concept is the first time through you might only get through 10%, the next time through you are more experienced and can maybe get through 60%, the next time through 100%. It doesn’t repeat for a full year, which seems like enough time for it to almost seem new.
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I’m almost there with songs I’ve heard a lot and with relatively simple chords. I bring them up on Ultimate Guitar and can typically follow along. It helps that that is what we do at my weekly Guitar Jam.
I’ve been trying to get to the point where I can play songs from memory and I have nine currently, but it takes a a lot of effort as a new song mainly because of the lyrics. I’m also reaching the point I’m not sure I can do more from memory. So do I just use a crutch like SongbookPro or Ultimate Guitar and consider that good? I’m not quite there yet.
