Moose408
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Part of the issue sounds like you are spending 60 minutes trying to get through the daily lessons. While that “might” work, it is just going to lead to frustration. The brain learns in brief spurts. You will learn for the first 10-20 mins but everything after that is not going to help.
My approach to the Daily Challenges is to try it for 10 mins, sometimes a little more. Some days I can only do the first line, sometimes I spend the entire 10 mins on the just the first measure. The Challenges are meant to CHALLENGE you and you aren’t expected to learn them in the first sitting, or even the 2nd or 3rd. I’ve been with TAC a little over a year now and have seen challenges come back around that I couldn’t do at all the first time, and now I can get a little further. It is rare that I can do an entire Daily Challenge unless it is very simple (Palm Muting, Double Stops, etc).
As to your original question; I just looked and at 5 months I had done 87 hours of total practice.
– I could play a couple of songs, Three Little Birds, and Mad World that had simple chords. I added 15 mins a day of practice dedicated to learning songs.
– I could read TABs but not at real time.
– I couldn’t solo per se but I felt comfortable doing the Improv day here at TAC.
– I went to my first music Jam session for beginners and was the worse one there. If I couldn’t play a particular piece I would just mute my strings and strum along. I kept at it going every week and it’s done a lot to help me improve. It is basically guitar karaoke, where as a group we follow along to songs on Ultimate Guitar.I’m now a year in and 248 hours of practice and I still don’t feel like I’m a guitar player. But I do recognize the progress I have made and so my daily goal is to be just a little bit better than I was yesterday.
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The brain can only learn one thing at a time, so if you are concentrating on your fretting hand you will struggle with rhythm and visa versa.
The key to learning anything on the guitar is isolation. Just practice rhythm with the fretting hand just holding a chord or better yet muting the strings. Then switch to learning the fretting hand stuff and just strum once per measure. Over time you will get better at both and it will be easier to combine them.
The other key is to slow things down. When using a metronome you should be constantly adjusting the speed. If you play something 3 times in a row an make mistakes then slow it down, if you can play something 3 times in a row with no mistakes then speed it up. Typically you can make adjustments in 5 to 10 bpm increments, although I’ve had complicated rhythms where I had to increase by 1 bpm per day for several weeks to get the timing right.
I also highly recommend the book The Laws of Brainjo, it is great at explaining how the brain learns especially related to guitar/banjo.
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If you know the key of a song then you know what scale to use for improvising or soloing to the song.
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Ultimate Tabs – https://www.ultimate-guitar.com
Songsterr- https://www.songsterr.com
YouTube
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UltimateTabs is my go to.
I also do a search for the song on YouTube. There will be a lot of choices, I have a few favorite channels that I gravitate towards.
I’ve heard that Songster is good, but I haven’t had much luck with it.
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I always have the TAB open while watching the video. I don’t think I could do anything if I had to rely on the video alone. I typically am trying the tab while listening to Tony and if I get to a tricky part then I will pay close attention to what he is saying. I’m mainly listening to him to hear the technique and tips, not where to place my fingers.
A year in and I can more confidently play the same songs I could at 5 months. LOL. I have recently devoted more practice time to learning songs, it’s a slow process.
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Ultimate Guitar has thousands of free guitar tabs
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I use my iPad. Once the video starts there is button that makes the video small, so I put it in th3 corner of the iPad screen with the tab behind it.
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I am just over a year in and I too sometimes find it hard to keep up with Tony. My technique that I currently use is to look at the tab while Tony is talking. Often I can play the tab without Tony and just listen to him to get the nuisance or some specific technique. Once I started watching this way it got so much easier to follow along.
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You can only legally do cover songs for songs in the public domain.
There is another option that works for some artists where you have to allow advertising on your channel and YouTube will then pay the appropriate royalties to the artist.
https://drummagazine.com/legal-beat-do-you-need-permission-to-upload-a-cover-song-to-youtube/
Prince, The Eagles and Bob Dylan are some of the most aggressive about issuing takedown notices. So I will not do covers of their songs.
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Do You Need Permission To Cover A Song On Youtube | DRUM! Magazine
Do you need permission to cover a song on youtube? Then read on and know how to upload a cover song to YouTube in the legal way.
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All songs are copyrighted. Don Henley is very diligent about tracking down videos that infringe on his copyright. Which is why I never post Eagles songs. Most other artists don’t care about individuals doing covers.
Was it listed as a public or private video?
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Thanks Jeff. I have recently had a few A-ha moments where some puzzle pieces fell into place. Looking forward to more of those in the future.
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Thanks Albert. Yes, my expectations were way too high. In most of my other endeavors where I devote as much time as I do to guitar I’m typically in the top 25% of people in that field. With guitar I feel like I’m in the bottom 10%. I just expected to be further along. It’s less about comparing myself to others than just comparing myself to my internal vision of where I should be. I’ll keep plugging along and maybe in another 5 to 10 years I’ll be where I feel like I want to be.
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Thanks Loraine. I do supplement TAC and that is where I’m seeing most of my progress. I do appreciate the skills Tony teaches, they are all directly applicable to my other course.