Moose408
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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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It’s just like anything else you remember what you practice. If I want to remember a song I add it to my practice routine and practice it everyday for at least a month. At that point I should be able to play it from memory. I might occasionally add it back into my practice routine a month later for a day or two just to make sure I still have it.
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Great job turning it into a positive.
A lot of the lessons go too fast for me as well. When that occurs I do one of two things, spend my 10 mins giving a try and then just mark it complete and move on. Or I will sometimes spend the remaining rest of the week revisiting the problem lesson and working my way through it and ignore the rest of the lessons.
I have to remind myself that I’m not trying to master any of the lessons, but instead just expose myself to the concept.
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I’m at the same point as OldBear49 and was coming to the forum to ask the same question.
I had looked at the first Daily Challenge (Monday’s) and was frustrated that I could barely get one measure of it figured out in my practice time. I was thinking I would spend 2-4 days on it, but it they go away that isn’t going to work.
It seems very counter-intuitive to me that I can get anything out of a daily challenge spending only 10 mins a day on it. I feel like I learned nothing in 10 mins.
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I’m going to answer my own question here as I found the answer in the 30-day challenge PDF. I watch and learn all 3 skills on the first day and then practice all 3 the rest of the week.
That’s more than 10 mins a day that was implied, but that’s ok.
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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>
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Interesting. I hadn’t really thought about a streak having control over me. I’ll have to think about that some. I guess I’m not sure what the downside is to trying to keep a streak going as long as it keeps me practicing.
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Thanks for the ideas. I do plan on studying some music theory. Maybe I’m too rigid in my definition of practice, but I consider learning (like watching Tony’s videos) different than practice. For me practice is when my fingers are on the guitar strings. 😀
Maybe I should be less rigid, but overall it’s just a mental exercise and in the grand scheme of things means little. The important thing is I’m focusing on learning guitar every day.
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I’m only 6 weeks into my restart after a failed attempt to learn guitar a year ago and I’m doing something similar. I have TAC and another course and about to sign-up for a third (doing a 2-week trial right now). I’m getting a lot more out of all of them because of the variety and different styles. Some lessons just resonate with me more than others.
Having different resources has made me progress faster and have more fun doing it.