[BrandonK]

Thanks Rob for sharing, I know how you feel. I just finished the 30 Days to Play and tried to do the 5 Day Routine videos, which were way to advance for me. I was not able to keep up at all, I found the training was too quick for my current skill level.

So I decided to go back through the 30 Days to Play again because I am still having challenges with a lot of what Tony taught in this program. I figure the next 90 days to 6 months I will be going back through the 30 Days to Play videos over and over again until I can get the skill level to even attempt the fretting and strumming Tony is asking for in the 5 Day Routine.

Which is disappointing because I assumed at the end of the 30 Days to Play videos I would be able to do what Tony taught. That is not the case. I understand having stretch goals that are just out of reach, I personally feel having too many stretch goals can cause frustration because I found I was just watching the videos and not even attempting what Tony was teaching because I couldn’t keep up.

[BrandonK]

Hey Big-Jim, I am sorry you’re a little frustrated. What’s going on?

[BrandonK]

Sadly I messaged TAC Support making a feature request that it would be nice if TAC’s team could create a video series on the technical tips, do’s and don’ts…etc.

They told me to go to the community because they basically told me they are only there for billing, website and login issues, which was disappointing.

I do appreciate the support from the TAC Community, I just expected more for the actual TAC support.

[BrandonK]

Hi Moose,

I appreciate what you are saying. I not even able to keep up in the first few minutes of the training video in the 5 Day Routine, let alone 10 minutes.

That is why I am going back to the start of the 30 Days to Play

[BrandonK]

I get that. What I am currently focusing on is these things:

1. Do my warm up exercises, finger drills, spiders, practice the 5 second cord drill for finger position for each cord I know.

2. Then I do my training video for the day which takes about 10 to 20 minutes.

Then I stop playing at that point and go do something else.

I know for me I have to remind myself this is a long distant race not a sprint. Celebrate that I practiced each day and I am being consistent.

I was reminded about the stages of Competency today:

1. Unconscious Incompetence – We don’t know what we don’t know

2. Conscious Incompetence – We know what we can’t do

3. Conscious Competence – We have to concentrate on what we want to do

4. Unconscious Competence – We don’t have to think about what we want to do. We can just do it.

This all comes down to putting in the reps until we can get to “Unconscious Competence” which takes time.

We are with you!

[BrandonK]

Good morning Rob,

Here is the spider exercise https://youtu.be/DBNNf4Ri3yc?si=tNjYaQKQJ01dr6Gs

[BrandonK]

I found the stretching video, thank you: https://tonypolecastro.com/courses/guitar-players-daily-stretch-guide/

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[BrandonK]

Thanks Zach, that does help.

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[BrandonK]

Hopefully you and I can work through this to be a good success story

[BrandonK]

Thank you Beatrice,

I was hoping to learn ways to not create bad habits.

[BrandonK]

Thank you

[BrandonK]

Makes sense Moose

[BrandonK]

Thanks

[BrandonK]

Thanks Philb,

How long have you been with TAC?

[BrandonK]

That’s great, do you find you can have a TAB sheet up and play along with a song?