Moose408
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Day 5 is the complete song. Or at least Tony’s arrangement of the complete song.
Day 4 is sometimes an easier version of the song without all the embellishments.
That being said I have been with TAC for 7 months and I have never learned a song from here that I play. Partly because it was too hard in the beginning and now because I have a different routine for learning songs. (I too use Ultimate Guitar for a lot of my songs).
That’s not say that I don’t find TAC valuable. It teaches me unique techniques that I find invaluable when I go to learn a song.
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If you mark a daily challenge as a favorite it will be saved in you favorite lists, otherwise you can not access previous months.
That being said, I copy the URL of each daily challenge and save it in a spreadsheet. So if there is a specific week you are looking for I can provide the links.
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My understanding is that he stopped them in September around the time he stopped the Acoustic Tuesday show.
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It is listed on the left-hand side of the web page under January Guitar Routine.
You should see it here
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The tablature is the small icon below the video on the righthand side.
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What is the hesitation?
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This will get better with time.
I do finger stretching exercises every practice session and it has helped a lot. Tony also has a course on stretching to do when not using the guitar.
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@drew.sudell pointed you in the right direction for downloading the tab. I need to use it on almost every lesson.
You mentioned that the play along video was too quick for you. You can slow down the video by clicking on the 1x at the bottom of the video and slow it down to 3/4 speed (0.75x) or half-speed (0.5x). Hope that helps.
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I rarely if ever go back. I just continue with the next daily challenge.
I always add a song or two onto the end of my daily practice to learn songs that I’m interested in learning. Not to say that Tony doesn’t have some good choices but I have others further up my list.
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The counters here have never been accurate for me since day 1. I just track outside of TAC using an app called Andante which also tracks all of my other practice sessions as well.
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For me the pop-out only appears if I make the video full screen first. Perhaps try that.
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I am 7 months in and have the same experience. I often don’t realize it until much later, but even the challenges I don’t successfully do are teaching me something.
I recently attended a local jam that also had an instruction component. They were teaching improv and how to play a solo and I was able to jump right in and do it no problem thanks to TAC. Maybe step back and really realize how much I’m learning even when I’m not able to do the daily challenge perfectly.
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I started my guitar journey at 61 as well. I’m 7 months in and am just now feeling like I can play the guitar.
I had tried a year ago and lasted about 30 days because I was frustrated. This time around I’ve changed my mindset. I am going to suck, I’m going to suck for a long time. It might be years before I can play the guitar like I want to and that is OK.
It took me 6 months to feel like I “got” the C chord and even then there are days where I struggle with it. Don’t feel like you have to perfect anything. Just give it a good try and then move on, to the next thing. It’s also OK that you aren’t retaining what you learned as it will come around again and it will come a little bit quicker the next time.
Most important, don’t get frustrated.
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Yes, I exclusively use my iPad to access TAC.
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The singing was fantastic. It’s obvious that you have a lot of practice singing.
Did not mean to imply anything about the singing just because I omitted it in my original praise. 😀