Moose408
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Not unless you marked it as a favorite. They go away at the end of each month unless you marked it.
That being said I save links to every lesson in a spreadsheet so here are last weeks lessons.
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Those are great wins!
I tried guitar (using another course) a year ago and quit after 6 weeks because I sucked.
I discovered TAC in June and the biggest thing it taught me was that yes I’m going to suck for a long time and it’s ok to suck. Just try and I will learn things in spite of myself.It’s also great that you were able to identify progress. It can be tough to realize because it is so slow.
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Congrats on your streak. Keep it rolling.
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That was great!
You also gave me some ideas on how to improve my improv with that sing (which I struggled with)
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For me it’s the the slow speed of this website. It discourages me from spending much time here. Taking 20-30 seconds to see the list of forum topics drives me nuts.
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What do you mean when you say your consistency disappearing?
If you are referring to practicing everyday, what is it about TAC that brings you back everyday? There are lots of ways to motivate oneself. I use a 3rd party app to track my progress and streaks and that is enough to keep me motivated.
Is it the variety? That would be a little tougher for me to replicate outside of TAC, but I would probably do it by setting up a full month of practice sessions, listing what I would practice each day and follow that.
Basically what are you are getting from TAC at this point that helps your consistency?
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I made a walkthrough. See if this helps.
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I found it on my phone by pressing the double arrow in the upper right. Works better in landscape mode.
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I think every new person experiences this.
A month’s worth of challenges are available for the month. At the end of the month they disappear and the new month appear. Do you happen to be in a time zone where it is now Sept 1st?
If not then all of the August challenges should be listed on the left column as shown in the attached screenshot.
If you want to save a challenge past the month then you can add it to your favorites and it will always be available. I ended up creating a spreadsheet each month and add the URL of the lesson as I find it sometimes hard to identify challenges in my favorites by just their name.
Challenges do repeat throughout the year, so if you missed it it will be back in 7-9 months.
One more point, the daily challenges don’t need to be mastered/perfected each day. The point is to try and some will be easy and some will be way over your skill level (this time around). There isn’t really a need to go back to a challenge to try to improve, just move on and do the next challenge.
Also here is the link to yesterday’s challenge.
https://tonypolecastro.com/lessons/starring-role-2/
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I’m fairly new here as well and was told that they do repeat maybe every 45 weeks or so. The idea is that you are repeatedly exposed to these concepts. As a Beginner I often can’t do everything in the daily challenge. I spend 10 mins and move on. I expect that the next time it comes around I will do better, and even better the next time around.
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No, it doesn’t have to be perfect. That was something I misunderstood when I started as well. Especially when you get to the daily challenges. The goal is to give it a try for at least 10 mins. Some you may be able to get and you spent more time in, others you won’t get at all. After 10 mins mark it has completed and move on. The daily challenges repeat throughout the year so get another chance when your skills have improved.
The approach seems to be to throw you into the deep end and expose you to a lot of different techniques. Over time they start to stick and get easier. I was very frustrated when I first started because they were all so hard, but then had the epiphany that it was ok to suck and just do what I can. Sometimes that is just playing one bar. That’s OK.
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I’ve only been here for 2 months, but I think I understand your frustration. The approach Tony teaches is unconventional and I wasn’t convinced it would work. Most of the daily challenges are way over my skill level and I was getting frustrated as well, and then someone pointed out that I didn’t need to master them, just try them for 10 mins. Or just do a portion of the exercise.
Once I realized I didn’t need to master a challenge or be perfect at it my frustration went away and became fun. Some days I spend an hour perfecting the technique, others I try, fail, and move on. It will come back around in a few months and hopefully my skills will have improved and I will do better.
Some days I like better than others (Tue Lick days, and Wed Improv), but I try them all. I would suggest trying a week of challenges with the mindset of it’s just something to try but not perfect and see if your frustration level drops.
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Wow, that is so great! I often put myself in uncomfortable situations to both learn where I need improvement, but more importantly to show myself that it’s not as big a deal as I thought it was and I’m better than I thought.
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I started off doing that and realized with alot of the TABs I really needed the video explanation, so I created a spreadsheet and saved the URL to the video as well. That way I can revisit it even after it has disappeared from previous months.
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The increase in skill *IS* subtle but I have definitely seen it and felt it.
<font color=”rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)” face=”inherit”>I also do another online guitar course and often people there are struggling with a lesson and I’m </font>realizing<font color=”rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)” face=”inherit”> that I’m not because it’s a skill I have already been exposed to here at TAC. I have really been enjoying the daily challenges here (once I made the mindset switch) and I’m improving every single day. </font>