Moose408
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TAC is about progress over perfection. It sounds like you have that in that you practice every day. The idea is to practice whatever Tony is presenting on a give day for 10 mins and then move on. Some days it will be easy, some days you may only get the first measure, that is OK is will come around again in the future and you will hopefully progress further.
I structure my practice time as follows. 10 mins on the TAC Daily Challenge, then 5 mins each on two of the 7 essential skills (picking, chords, arpeggios, rhythm, notes, aural, scales). I rotate through each day so I’m covering 2 different skills each day of the week. Then I spend 10 mins on songs.
If I have a particular chord transition I’m struggling with I will a 5 min session to work on it. Right now it is D to Bm.
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I typically just use my iPhone. If I want really good audio I will record it separately with a Zoom recorder or using a Focusrite Audio Interface and then combine with the video using Adobe Premiere.
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Yeah I still look at 371 hours of practice. It was around 120 hours that I was able play a song with simple chords without looking. It takes a while.
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Each week is standalone and is typically teaching a specific skill or technique. The next week is generally a completely different skill/technique. The challenges repeat over a long period 9-12 months. The philosophy is that you are being exposed to these bite sized techniques over time. The first time through you might only be able to the first measure or 2. The next time the technique comes around you will get a little further and eventually you will get through the entire exercise.
Over time all of these little incremental improvements will build up and you will become a good guitar player.
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You should be able to do it by content. Monday is going to be technique, licks on Tuesday should be easy, Wed will be a scale, Thurs – chords, and leftover is Friday.
Or you could look on this list I created 🙂
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TGvLuT0UPJwcOhBhL_PEK8Jlx1KwAh7aofhxatj-mro/edit
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When you get back you can go back to the previous week. Personally I would just skip it (it will come back around) and just focus on the new week. Since the weeks don’t build on each other it’s fine to skip and just go with the current week.
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I assume by beginning you mean 30-days to play as there isn’t really a beginning to the Daily Challenges.
https://tonypolecastro.com/courses/30-days-to-play/
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You should do all of the Daily Challenges in a week, they build on each other throughout the week. The mantra here is progress over perfection. Spend at least 10 minutes on each challenge, do the best you can, some days it will be easy, some days you will struggle with the first measure, that’s OK, just do the best you can and move on. It will come around again in a few months and you will get further.
The Daily Challenges are exposing you to a lot of different skills and techniques, but you are not expected to master them in a day. Just keep moving through them.
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The Friday lesson is typically the complete song, or rather Tony’s interpretation/rendition. If you the want the song as recorded by the artist you will need to look elsewhere. I like Ultimate Guitar as they seem to have TABs for every song I’ve ever looked for.
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The TAB will often have marks that indicate the pick direction.
For chords you normally strum down on the beat and up on “and” of the beat
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There are 3 levels for YouTube videos; Public, Unlisted, Private. To share it without out it being seen by everybody set to Unlisted and share the link. Private means no one can see it but you.
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I use a Bluetooth footswitch to scroll the page. Here is the one I have but there are dozens of similar ones.
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The red recording light makes everyone forget how to play guitar.
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The 5 day challenge is a good next step.
It is the same format as the Daily Challenges. So once you have completed it you should click on the Daily Challenge link at the top of the left-hand menu bar and get started there. The Daily Challenges are part of a week long lesson. So start on a Monday and then progress from there. Each Monday is a reset and a new weekly set of challenges.
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Interesting that there aren’t any in your area. You could always start one. That is how all of the jams I go to got started, from a single person creating a meetup group and setting up a meeting.
