[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]

Thanks Barbara, I am going to look up the book today.

[BrandonK]

Hi Terri,

Thank you so much for the response

1. When you are referring to the string on the guitar being low to high. Are you referring to the top string closes to me is the low one and the one further away from me is the high string?

2. For the Fret board it appears the Low string (string closes to me) is the line at the bottom of a TAB and the High string (string further way from me) is the top line. Is that correct? I am repeating what you said just so I can make sure I understand it correctly

3. I am starting to better understand the numbers and fret position. How do I know which figure to use?

Once I better understand what you sharing and be able to some what apply it, I agree I will move on to the Daily Challenge.

[BrandonK]

Hi Kristin,

Thank you for the response. I know you are trying to help and I appreciate it.

What you might not understand is most of what you wrote, I have no clue what it is. Remember I am a true beginner who just went through the 30 Day to Play and I did exactly what Tony said 10 minutes a day. Which means I did not master a thing, fretting, the chords, strumming…etc. A lot of the training was extremely challenging to me.

1. I still do not know how to read a TAB sheet and what it means. The lines I am figuring they are the strings just not sure which one as of yet. The numbers I think are the position on the fret board which I am not sure what finger to use for each number. I am also not sure is the lines like the guitar top to bottom of the strings which it appears from what I am seeing it might be opposite. The high E is at the bottom of the lines and the low E string is at the top of the lines on the TAB. Which is still confusing to me.

2. The list of numbers you shared, I am not sure what those are. Are those the strings or position on the fret board of the guitar…etc.

3. …etc.

I am sharing you so you can see I am still a beginner and a most of this information is still over my head.

[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