Moose408
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I don’t have them saved but was able to reverse engineer the URLs and found them.
https://tonypolecastro.com/exercise/kc1-minor-key-c/
https://tonypolecastro.com/exercise/kc2-accidentals-key-d/
https://tonypolecastro.com/exercise/kc3-accidentals-key-e/
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No, you are doing it right…
It is recommended that you first do the 30 Days to Play, then the 5-day Challenge, and THEN start the Daily Challenges.
The email is generic to everybody here at TAC so it assumes you are doing the Daily Challenges.
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I gave up on the using the Stats here a while back.
I now use an app called Andante which allows me to track days, sessions (246), total time practicing (135 hours since I started playing guitar), streak (103), practice notes, etc. I enjoy having more detailed tracking.
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I used to just print out the tab and write the notes myself until I got good at reading them.
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You might want to do some specific ear training, learning to identify the spacing between notes without the added burden of figuring out a key.
There is a great app called Tenuto that has ear training lessons. The associated web site is called MusicTheory.net
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That was a performance! Very nice job. I really liked your strumming on this.
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Very nice, I enjoyed that. The singing was good and really impressed with the finger picking.
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Welcome back!
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Don’t beat yourself up. It took me months to be able to not look at my hands and I still occasionally mess up.
It’s ok if you can’t do it, just keep moving forward. Progress over perfection. It will come.
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He plays the chords, at the same time you play the single notes on the E string until you find a note that sounds good with all of the chords he is playing. That note is the key for the song (chords) he is playing.
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Tempo is independent of the notes in a measure.
For example if you have 4 quarter notes in a measure and the tempo is 60bpm there will be 4 beats in the measure and you will play a note each second. If you take that same measure and increase the tempo to 120bpm you will play two notes every second (using downstrokes). It gives the same result as playing 8 eighth notes at 60bpm but it is a completely different piece of music.
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Your understanding of picking down on the downbeat and up on the upbeat is correct. Upbeats typically implies eighth notes, if you are just playing quarter notes then there is just a downbeat.
Another way of saying it that a measure in 4/4 time you would count it
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and
The numbers are the downbeat and the “and” is the upbeat. If there is no note being played on the upbeat, then you would just strum with all down strums.
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It is amazing to me that in 2024 that any website is slow like this one. Just shows a lack of caring on Tony’s part.
It does discourage me from using the site, I will come to the forums and maybe look at one or 2 topics as opposed to all of them. It is frustrating.
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I was here for 7 months without a Monday email and they suddenly started arriving last week. So I don’t have an answer for that.
A benchmark song is one of the songs each month hat comes around again every four (?) months. The idea is that you record where you are this week so that you can observe your improvement the next time it comes around.
The 4 benchmark songs are
Ain’t No Sunshine
Wagon Wheel
Hotel California
Old Man
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My point was if they cared about the slow site they would fix it. WordPress is notoriously slow if you don’t know what you are doing and don’t know how to optimize it. Tony could easily hire someone who knows how to optimize WordPress, there are literally thousands of consultants who could fix it in a few weeks. The correct answer but more involved is to move the site off of WordPress to a platform that is more responsive. That is of course more involved and would take some time and the desire to do so.
My point is that the website speed could easily be fixed if there was a desire to fix it, but it doesn’t seem to be a priority, therefore the statement about not caring.
I know that Tony is passionate about guitar and teaching, but it seems his enthusiasm has waned this past year. I don’t begrudge him wanting to spend more time with his family, but the reduced enthusiasm is also an example of not caring anymore. Just maintain the status quo and let the business coast.