[the-old-coach]

Edith–

I’ll throw in my two cents–

1. Most importantly— Go s – l – o – w at first, to learn it muscle-memory-wise…..

2. Mechanically-speaking, anchor your index finger first. (To me, the “C” is one of those chords where my fingers just kind-of “lay-in-there” perfectly– once the index finger has landed).

3. Pay attention to your pinky. Keep it “up” & out of trouble on this one….

4. Get your transition reps in— lots of them. in 1 or 2 minute spurts.

5. Work on another 2 or 3 chord transitions at the same time. That might some counter-productive, but planting that seed for “the next one” will pay benefits up ahead. Working and focusing too hard on just ONE transition that’s giving you trouble can freeze you up…… (believe me– I know).

6. Have the confidence that it will very soon come easily to you!- no worries, have fun with it!

Carry-on, all good.

Long-winded two cents-

Mark J

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😃👍

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Greg-

Huge Thank You for your post here.

It is me- (and maybe it is most of us?).

I’m 6-months in TAC, still loving it and having fun. But I must admit- it seems like the “new car smell” is maybe going away at times. I think that in itself is part of the learning process.

Your post here is dead-on for many- if not most- of us. It is very detailed and inspiring.

And the answers(!)- WOW- fantastic, insightful, inspirational. The responses you have received tell the REAL story of TAC.

This is a really long thread- and getting longer. I have read every word of it twice through. Every word. Twice.

Once in a while threads like this come along- and the responses and thoughtful contributions remind us of things. To me they seem like they are a mirror back into our own selves.

This is just-plain fantastic stuff. It’s real. It’s heartfelt. It’s helpful. It’s a reminder hat learning guitar is NOT “required reading”– it’s a fun-choice, a JOURNEY that takes me to a different place each practice session. I love it- it’s the ultimate definition of “me time”.

Thank you for your original post– it’s GOLD.

Mark

[the-old-coach]

Thanks to all who have posted on this thread! This particular case of mine has been fixed- (and I am indeed VERY appreciative of the great person who made that happen).

Back to the main issue- (remember that I am NO computer expert)…. But, just why, really, can’t the past-month’s lessons be saved somewhere in TAC so that members can access them if they are gone/sick/forgetful/whatever- at the end of any given month?

As I mentioned earlier- Why is is that- at the end of the month- I can access, say, a 4-week-old lessons……… but at the first of the month, I canNOT access, say, 4-day-old lessons?

Please, please Tony and TAC team, try and fix this-

Humbled thanks– Mark

[the-old-coach]

Maybe a new “wrinkle”—

It looks like all 4 of the lessons in question are still in the “June Guitar Routine” lessons even though the thurs. and fri. lessons are actually July 1 & 2?

Maybe it’s a non-issue— depending on exactly when they “chop off” the June Guitar Routine lessons and start July’s. If it’s, say, July 4 Sunday night/midnight– Monday morning, maybe I’m good- we get back the 3rd.

I guess we’ll see.

Message to Tony and TAC team– is there any way you folks can consider keeping those “last-month’s” pdf/tabs around- — even for just a short time— to allow access to any of us who don’t want to miss these important lessons? IMHO, in this case I don’t care so much about the videos- (they are “a lot”). Just the pdf/tabs.

Thanks again- MJ

[the-old-coach]

I don’t know any different than how it is on my laptop.

I type in “Tony Polecastro”, and hit enter. “Tony Polecastro TAC” shows up in a list that pops up. I click on it. The TAC sign-in page shows up. I sign in- (username and password)- and then always check the box that says “remember me”. It then takes me into the TAC site. I have to do all the same steps again the next time- it does not “remember me”. Never has.

Sounds like I may be doing something wrong- but maybe don’t realize it- (does NOT surprise me if that is the case).

If it’s not obvious- my computer skills and knowledge are limited- (and I’m OK with that actually). I just want the “remember me” to work, so that the sign-in to TAC would be faster.

Thanks

[the-old-coach]

Maybe they will get the “Remember me” button to “remember me”. I hit it every time and it still doesn’t do like other sites that have that feature. Hopefully it’s not just me😳

MJ

[the-old-coach]

👍 Famous unknown quote– “You can’t know which direction to go until you actually know where you are” 😉

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Ray–

East fix?– Print out any lessons- (the pdf’s)– you want to save– on or before the last friday at the end of the month! If you don’t– they are gone when the first Monday of the month rolls around.

Lots of TAC members hope the TAC crew will make it so that the prior month’s lessons will be kept around for one month.

There is another thread on this subject called “Prior Month’s Dailys” from a week or so ago. Check it out, it’s full of great help and suggestions better than mine here.

Keep diggin’- Mark

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😉

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Nailed it.😀

Now- for me anyway- it’s a matter of remembering to remind my mechanical, goal-oriented brain to “pull its head out” and check out the scenery.

Thanks-

Mark

[the-old-coach]

Mike- Every once in a while, a thread like this comes along that hits pretty close to home for many, if not most, of us.

Definitely including myself.

Not tryin’ to be all mushy here, but your response here is dead-on for me. It’s perfect– especially the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs- perfect. I’m thinkin’ I’m gonna print them out and read them before each practice session.

As I may have said before- I hope you’re leaving crumbs along the trail so I can follow.

— Mark

[the-old-coach]

Victoria- Thanks– this is a great tip!

I really hope there is a way- and a want- to fix the accessing of prior-months lessons. The help and tips about “favoritizing” the daily lessons are great, and appreciated for sure, but are maybe missing the mark of my original post, which was more along the lines of how to “back-access” lessons from, say, the month prior.

Seems to me to be two different things entirely.

For me, all I really need is the tabs.

I do faithfully watch both the “learn” and “play” videos for each lesson- and use them to get a handle on the lesson itself, but really don’t need to necessarily save them- but if I DO think I’ll need the video again, I “favoritize” it for sure.

I guess the original intent was to be able to access Daily Lessons that I had missed- ones from the prior “month”- (that now disappear when the first-week-of-the-month’s “cycle” of 5 lessons begins).

Favoritizing doesn’t apply to this issue because to favoritize a lesson, I would be- (or already would have been)- looking at it.

And you can’t favoritize a lesson “ahead of time” because you can’t access it.

So maybe- (as I’m rambling on)-…… either…… having “back-access” to prior-month’s lessons a person has missed…… OR…….. being able to access a lesson- (like normal)- ahead of time- (say, if you had something planned and knew what days you were going to miss– would both work.

And all of this is only a problem at the changing of the month.

To me, the Daily Lessons are the backbone of TAC– (and I really LOVE them!)- and not having a way to get to them, for whatever reason, just seems wrong.

Like a broken record- I hope you all can find it in your hearts to get this fixed.🙂

Sincerely- Mark

[the-old-coach]

You are right– having that would help a lot- and I don’t really understand why not.

MJ

[the-old-coach]

Can I “favorite” lessons that are not yet available? If there’s a way to do that – problem solved! I tried and it wouldn’t let me do it- (it absolutely could have been operator error😜 and I just don’t know how to do that. I’ll try it again).

Thanks- MJ

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