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The best part is they meet in our community rec center, it’s only a few minutes away from my home. Also, even though I totally sucked, I’m still invited back for the next session in 2 weeks!
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I came across this Hendrix cover a while back and didn’t think of it when @jorgemac started this thread. I find it’s an awesome cover. I saw Steve Lukather and what’s left of Toto in St Augustine a couple of months back. He didn’t play this (unfortunately) but it was still a great show.
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You can go back six weeks through the website but Moose’s google sheet handles it more gracefully.
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How fun @KevinZ
Made me laugh out loud, thanks for another great performance! 🙂
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I hesitated for a long time before deciding to respond again. I didn’t want to perpetuate the life of a discussion that has maybe already run its course.
I think we are all in agreement that no good guitarist got to be good by playing only ten minutes a day. Opinions seem to diverge on how useful spending only ten minutes actually is. I think 10 minutes is a lot better than 0 minutes. It’s probably the bare minimum to achieve miniscule progress and not regress, especially for beginning players. For more advanced people, it will do very little.
I think the 10 minute thing is just enough to get you started and hooked into wanting to do more. Absolute beginners must develop a habit of playing regularly. Ten minutes per day can help us develop this habit. We’re not getting on track to become good players but we’re getting started. You need to give it more time daily to accelerate progress in a meaningful way.
What you do in the time you have is perhaps even more important than how long you spend each day. That’s what makes TAC really shine, because you have a challenge handed to you daily that is well structured and addresses key skill categories that players need to develop. It’s very important to spend the time you have wisely, meaning in ways that actually advance your guitar skills and knowledge. This is where a good many learning programs pale in comparison. They may have all the right content but it’s not disseminated in a way that’s both efficient and targeted.
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Just wanted to point out that Braden posted this video on October 31, 2023 (2 1/2 years ago) in case some of you didn’t notice. That was before many of us were even TAC members and it was before I even started playing guitar.
@Braden did a great job with it but he’s been playing most every day since.
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Sorry @Skyman911 !
I understand and appreciate that I’m in an enviable position; it took this long – almost 2 and 1/2 years since I first made the decision to become a guitar player. Those of you who are just starting, hang in and good things can happen! -
Definitely the beginning of an exciting phase! I wanted it sooner, and I met with somebody about a year and a half ago but it was just 2 of us and he was way more advanced than I. We had a lunch and talked, that was it we never touched our guitars.
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Hmmn, I’m assuming your thumb is somewhat locked in this position? How is the movability in your fingers? Playing guitar could be somewhat therapeutic for you, not sure but it’s possible. Maybe check with a doctor.
This video might be helpful:
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Good point, @Kristin1
I always knew that I wasn’t practicing full songs, so it’s no surprise. (So many new TAC members come on here asking: “What about the SONGS, where are they?”, etc.) Playing the full song is on me, TAC isn’t going to feed it to me note by note, that’s actually a good thing because as you said: there’s more than one way to play a song and you have to be able to adapt. This group uses Ultimate Guitar as their primary source of TABs so there is common ground.
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Yeah, my strat must be broken, …not even close! lol!
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Very true statement: “how fast they see improvement is directly related to how much effort (and TIME) they put in”
I would add the caveat that you can’t put in massive effort and then stop for a while, rinse and repeat. You want to keep your sessions in the 15-20 minute range and break. This will help much more than playing for hours straight. You won’t be focused enough and you can only feed your brain so much, then it needs time to process.
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The 10 minute thing is not a complete lie IMO. At the start, devoting 10 minutes per day playing (not including the time you are sitting and watching video of Tony playing) will get you going. If you’re a complete beginner, you would want to add time to learn chords and some basic techniques from the skill tab. Just doing this, 10 or 15 min or a bit more can progress you slowly for the first 12 – 18 months. You will be a better player than when you started. But you won’t really make huge strides after that first year or so if you don’t push harder!
Now Tony does say you can also just play 2 or 3 days a week (and only 10 min I assume). That’s really iffy! I can’t see you progressing much with that effort.
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“Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” is another great one by Paul Simon. In another lifetime I might be able to play it – it’s way out of my league now.
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I’ve left this tangent alone until now, but I think I would like to voice my opinion on it. 10 minutes a day is simply the amount that we should devote to the challenge of the day before we mark it complete. And in the past I’ve always called it 10-20 minutes. Some challenges require more time than others. You want to at least attempt a good portion and some days 10 minutes isn’t going to get you far. And if you’re new to TAC then you don’t know what’s covered in the Learn Video and you will need to watch it a lot more closely than a member who’s been through it a number of times. At this point there are lot of challenges where watching video isn’t necessary to do the challenge. If I can skip that I absolutely can get some meaningful reps done and be better than the previous time. Benchmarks especially fall in this category since we see them so often.
Will you improve if that is all you do each day? I believe you will improve, but quite slowly. Heck I probably spend an hour minimum most days (7 days a week), often much more and I am still not progressing as fast I would like. Partly because I am not terribly gifted, but mainly because guitar is crazy hard.
Spending more time daily, multiple sessions, accelerates progress. Five 10 -15 minute sessions per day is superior to one 2 hour session. Your brain processes things during the time you aren’t holding the instrument, even while you’re sleeping.