Moose408
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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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To get in sync with 3/4 time (or any time signature) you need to count yourself in. So with the metronome going, say out loud 1,2,3 1,2,3 …. Then at some point when you get to a 1 you start playing on that beat and you should then be in sync.
Metronomes take practice, just like the guitar. I will often just count with the metronome without my guitar just to get use to internalizing the beat.
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There is also a link to the previous month’s challenges in the email Tony sent Monday morning.
You can also go back to the previous month challenges from the Daily Challenge page
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There is a link to a spreadsheet with previous challenges.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10CGaT6CrZ783_tw-burdSd7W_KWiliiei03_h0T5dgA/edit?usp=drive_link -
Here is a link to the spreadsheet for all of the past classes.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10CGaT6CrZ783_tw-burdSd7W_KWiliiei03_h0T5dgA/edit?usp=drive_link -
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The Quick Start guide is correct. The email went to everyone and was geared towards those who have already completed 30 Days to Play and the 5 Day Challenge.
The Daily Challenges are a self contained week long series of classes. Once you have completed the 30 & 5 Days just jump in on whatever Daily Challenge is happening that week. Start on the Monday lesson and just work your way through.
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Here is a list of all of the lessons for the past 18 months.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10CGaT6CrZ783_tw-burdSd7W_KWiliiei03_h0T5dgA/edit
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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.
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I used Meetup.com to find a dozen different guitar jam groups in my area. Went to several until I found one I like. Now play with them every Monday night. It has been a great experience. I learn so much every time I go.
