Moose408
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Everyone learns differently. I can’t follow Tony, when he is describing finger placement so the I always look at the tab and instantly understand the lesson. Whatever works for you.
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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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I learned from another instructor, but you should be able to find an image of the notes in the fretboard and learn from there.
The low E on the staff is the 2nd fret in the D string, and all the others on the staff shown are in the first 3 frets going towards the high E string.
There is a good app called Staff Wars that will help learn the notes on the staff. There is a website called MusicTheory.net (and companion app called Tenato) that will help with notes in the fretboard.
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I do look at the video to determine which finger goes where if it isn’t obvious. The tab isn’t going to give you any indication of which finger to use.
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There is zero indication that they are aware of it and are working on it. It has been this way for the 7 months that I’ve been here. It would be great if they WOULD acknowledge it. Perhaps in the weekly email, or perhaps just post here on the forums (although I’ve also never seen Tony or his crew posting here).
I even tried to contact support about the slow site and got zero response.
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I also use an app called Tenuto which is an app by MusicTheory.net. I use it for learning/drilling myself on notes on the fretboard, notes on the staff and for ear training.
I also use the StaffWars game to learn the notes on the staff.
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I use Modacity to come up with my weekly practice plan. Makes sure I am covering all bases and not over practicing others. I have 7 practice lists, one for each day.
So for example Monday has
Finger Stretching
TAC Day 1
Chords
Notes
Arpeggios
Scale – E Blues right now, but I change this as I master a scale
Rhythm
Song – Enter the Sandman
Song – Stuck in the Middle with YouTuesday
Finger Stretching
TAC Day 2
Scale – Am Pentatonic
Chord Transitions
Scale – D Major
Power Chords
Song – I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll
Strumming Practice for Stand by Me DUxUxUxU
Song – Stand by Meand so on….
I put in 15 mins for TAC and 3-5 mins for each of the other tasks.
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They disappear at the end of the month.
You can save them to your favorites if you want to go back to them, but you have to remember the name the lesson as it doesn’t sort them or have any other identifier.
I and others copy all of the challenge to a spreadsheet with a link to each lesson.