[joseph-vitzen]

Thanks to everyone who has shared their guitar journey and how they approach the lessons here. I am over my overwhelmed feeling and I think I hit close to a home run on Monday’s challenge. Behind a few days but will either try to catch up or just sit back and enjoy the ride and that is definitely what learning to play guitar is, a ride. Sometimes the road is smooth, not too many curves or ups and downs. Other times your driving at night with no headlights, the road is bumpy and there are a lot of ups and downs. You have to enjoy those smooth rides and you got to buckle up and hold on for the bumpy ones. Hopefully, when it is all said and done, you arrive at your destination and get to stand proud because you weathered it all.

Thanks everyone. I love you all for the support. 😀

[joseph-vitzen]

Justin Guitar has several good books of tablature that are fun to learn and easy to understand. That’s if you want hard copies. I tend to look at Ultimate Guitar Tabs for the latest music.

[joseph-vitzen]

I want to thank everyone for your continued support and all the great knowledge that players here have to share. So, thank you all very, very much.

I guess I am use to other programs where they show you something and they expect you to work on it (on one’s own time) until you get it right. It is unusual to me that things aren’t kind separated more, i.e. guitar beginner, guitar beginner medium, guitar beginner advanced and so on. Other programs I have tried delineated levels of guitar ability differently.

I just have to adjust to the daily challenges are used by guitarist of different levels and that I can’t expect myself to learn everything the first time around.

Once again, I thank the TAC family for their support and assistance. Very nice to have a community that is willing to help one another out. 😀

[joseph-vitzen]

Thank you all for this wonderful advice and ways to get better at chord transitions. I know it takes time and practice to get all this stuff down and into muscle memory, but sometimes I just get frustrated because I want to do it right the first time or at least be able to transition at a decent pace. I know that I will get there.

Power chords, kind of happy with the two finger approach now, but will still try with the third finger.

I guess my frustration comes from using other apps for over a year and I just don’t feel like I have gotten anywhere. Sure I can play notes better and picking the right string isn’t too much of a problem, but I feel that’s it. Here though, I like the way things are broken up into daily tasks, i.e. focus on chords one day, picking or strumming the next, ect.

Thank you everyone for the support. I really do appreciate it.

[joseph-vitzen]

Honestly, I think TAC should be split up a bit more, so that people can start at their level without having to mash up with less skilled players. Lessons, in my opinion and I am not Tony, but I think it should go somewhat like this.

Beginner: Beginner; Beginner Intermediate, Beginner Advanced

Intermediate: Intermediate Beginner, Intermediate, Intermediate Advanced

etc…

We are not suppose to worry that we can’t play certain things and that as we progress for a year, 2 years, 3 years we will get it. However, it is so frustrating when you can’t even keep up with Tony. Some lessons I have had to watch at .5 speed just to get what he is saying and being able to find the strings or particular chord he wants us to play. Plus, on some tabs, I don’t even know how to recognize the down and up strokes.

I don’t know. I paid for a year and I will try and tough it out. I am seen some improvement, but I wish I could get things a little quicker.