[Stilltrying]

Hi,

Thanks for all the replies. Just to clarify a few things first.

· I am not thinking of giving up on trying to play guitar. I am simply wondering if TAC is the best resource to help in my learning.

· I have been trying to learn the guitar for a lot longer than 7 weeks. The clue is in the name. I had given up but when I hit sixty I decided to give it one more shot. I took lessons for a couple of years. I enjoyed the lessons but my teacher never focused on the fundamental skills and I never felt like I was making progress.

· I appreciate that a lifetime membership is usually best value but if I am not getting enough value from the programme then lifetime membership would be a waste of money.

Having said that I did get some useful information in the replies.

· My own thoughts were that TAC on it’s own will not help me with my goal of being able to accompany myself. That seems to be shared by many others.

· TAC does provide a good basis for developing fundamental skills that can be applied across the board and that should make learning songs easier.

· The underlying habit-based principles seem to be a good basis, probably the best basis, for approaching how to learn guitar.

· I should think about the Wednesday improvisation as less about soloing and more about getting familiarity with notes or scales and with developing finger dexterity.

· I really liked the following
– every time I pick up my guitar I get closer to that goal
– don’t give up before the miracle happens

In the past few years, I have been practicing consistently however I don’t think I had a great structure or framework. I think TAC has that structure.

The question now for me is whether there is another resource that either might be better overall or that might complement TAC in terms of learning the songs that I want to learn.

That is something for me to think about for the remainder of my three month subscription. Right now, taking on board all the feedback, I am leaning towards finding something complementary.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by  Stilltrying.