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Thanks all. Learning guitar has been the best thing I’ve done in a long time and I like that it can continue until I can no longer pick up a guitar

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Congratulations Pete! Your contributions here are TAC have been great. Here’s to another 20 years of learning and playing.

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Tony Immoni the guitarist for Black Sabbath lost the tips of two fingers and ended up created Heavy Metal music as a result of coming up with a way to play. He did create some fake fingertips and changed the tuning so the strings were easier to fret. Who knows maybe you too could create a while new genre.

I personally would change to playing left-handed. Yes, it will feel awkward at first but learning to play guitar is going to be awkward. Better to start off while you are a beginner so you don’t have to change it later.

Justin of Justin Guitar switched to left-handed and recorded himself taking everyone of his lessons so he could experience what a new player would experience. Search for Nitsuj on YouTube and watch his struggles and progress.

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Open D with a Capo on 1 are different notes than Open E so it would not match the song.

Open D is D-A-D-F#-A-D
Open E is E-B-E-G#-B-E
Open D with Capo on 1 is D#-A#-D#-G-A#-D# which is half-step down from Open E tuning.

You could move the capo to 2nd fret with Open E tuning to match Open D tuning on the 1st fret, but why? Either way you have to change the guitar tuning, so why not change it to Open D where you don’t need a Capo at all?

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Over time your hands will gain more flexibility and your reach will increase.

If I hold my left hand against my right hand, the left can stretch over an inch further than the right. One of my instructors pointed out to me that there are 10 year old kids that can stretch 6 frets, so it should be doable for me too with time.

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I am able to login just fine from both my Windows machine and my iPad.

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Each week is a new set of Daily Challenges, you can jump in at any time. Start with the Monday lesson and then progress through the week as each lesson builds on the next throughout the week. It resets every Monday with a new model song/technique. There are no skill levels, some weeks will be more difficult than others. The concept is that you do as much as you can each day and try for at least 10 mins. Some days you may only be able to do the first measure, some days the entire thing. You don’t have to do it perfect, just try your best. The lessons will come around again and next time you will get a little further in them. Progress over perfection. You are not expected to get through a daily challenge every time, just expose yourself to the concept.

If you haven’t done the 30-day Challenge that is the place to start, after the 30 days spend 5 days on the 5 Day Challenge which is basically the same concept as the Daily Challenges. Then the next week jump into the Daily Challenge for that week.

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Just in case you haven’t discovered it. Every lesson comes with the sheet music and TABS for the lesson. It is an icon just below the video. Some of those will include chord diagrams.

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@petelanger That’s great! I’m so happy for you.

Your experience sounds a lot like my first experience including the tablet on the floor. That group would also go around the circle and have each person pick a song and they were all better than me.

I’ve since found a different group that meets every Monday and they are setup a little different. There is one person that kind of leads the jam and he screen shares his tablet to a TV screen in the room. So everyone can see the same Ultimate Guitar screen and it helps a little more with everyone staying together. There are some very talented guitar players in the group, many who have been playing 30+ years and they are all so helpful. I learn some new technique at every jam which is the main reason I keep going back. I’ve learned almost as much there as I have here at TAC.

Singing and playing guitar is hard and is a skill just like everything else. As the skill has developed it has gotten easier. One tip someone gave to me was to start off just humming the song, before attempting to play it, do that for a few weeks/months. Then sing the lyrics in your head for another few weeks/months. Then when comfortable you can actually sing it. This approach accelerated my ability to sing songs.

I am very excited to hear about the next one.

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That sounds like a great setup. I use the same FocusRite and love it. I’m not familiar with that particular mic but have never been disappointed by the Rode brand. I feed my both the microphone and the guitar via the pickup through the FocusRite and it works great.

I’ve never heard of Mixcraft 10.6 Pro Studio. For just recording yourself it will probably do fine. The advantage of the bigger name DAWs is that there are 1000’s of tutorials on how to use them. I tried 3 different ones that all came with equipment that I purchased and settled on Ableton. I probably use 1% of the features but it works great for me.

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I can never figure out how to go back through the website. I made a spreadsheet of all of the lessons for a given year with links to the specific lessons.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10CGaT6CrZ783_tw-burdSd7W_KWiliiei03_h0T5dgA/edit?usp=drivesdk

docs.google.com

TAC Guitar Daily Challenge List

TAC Guitar Daily Challenge List

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Thanks all.

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Thanks Albert.

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I brought James Shipway books with me and read some in the plane. So yep I’m still learning but I’m fine not counting that as practice.

The travel guitar I built has 1000s of miles on it, it has been to Hawaii, Mexico, all over the continental US. I travel at least 2 weeks every month. The logistics for this particular trip was going to make it difficult to practice everyday, so since I was going to break the streak anyway decided to just take a break. I’m on day 2 of the trip and I already miss my guitar.

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They are TAC internal links that are used to distinguish between the various years of a set of challenges. So the link for the 2025 Sweet Home Chicago classes will be different than the 2026 Sweet Home Chicago class pages. I believe the reason they do this is so the comments under each Daily Challenge video apply to a given instance of the challenge. Meaning you aren’t going to see comments from years past when you do today’s challenge.

The format changes a lot, so I have been unable to decipher it for predicting future links.