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@Coreena you will want to drop the term “mastered” from your vocabulary when you are in TAC mode. I’ve been here 18 months and I haven’t mastered any songs yet. Every one has been improving, especially the benchmarks because we see them 3 times a year. This system is about playing for a short time daily and marking complete. 10 minutes is suggested, for me it’s usually a 20 minute session that I often repeat once or twice more during the day.
There’s a reason why you don’t learn to play songs completely in TAC. For a beginner player, it would require an awful lot of effort to correctly mimic the artist’s recording, probably 2 to 4 weeks (depending on the complexity of the song) of practicing many hours daily. At that point it probably would be a rather shabby mimicry, unless you are already a superb player. This response is assuming you are not yet an accomplished musician on the guitar.
Tony teaches you techniques to apply to songs so that you won’t mimic the original but make it something of your own. This is a process that will take several cycles through each song. Once your skills have improved in the 5 areas taught, you will be able to learn songs a lot faster. For me I have chosen to take that time that could be devoted to learning songs and invest it in learning to play all aspects of the guitar
Wish you all the best in your journey.
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He just walks you through a self eval now. I think it’s called
Guitar Enjoyment Audit. It will be done within the daily challenges. -
Yes jump in as soon as you have done the 5 Day Routine. Some of the Daily Challenges are harder than others, but generally more challenging than the 30 Days. That’s ok, we need to get challenged in order to get better. There’s lots of repeating of skills so the opportunity to do it again will come soon. Just do what you are able to do and mark complete! Move on with out crushing the lesson, it’s fine!
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You just start wherever TAC is in the rotation. Today we are on lesson 18. Every week is a self contained lesson and the elements taught are repeated many times throughout the year. It doesn’t matter if you start with lesson 1 or 50, you just jump in.
When I started I received an email with a link when it was time to jump into the daily challenge. I still get them every Monday and they always go to the current lesson.
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That’s great that you feel your confidence growing. It’s a wonderful experience!
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Yes, it’s another one of those occasions where the calendar got garbled. I’m not sure what’s going on in the TAC Techie World.
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Yep! That’s how it is!
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You can take it at whatever speed your comfortable with @dpotiemsn-com Some guy did the 30 Day program in an afternoon. Everybody comes in a different levels.
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What a blast @Philb , epic Led Zep song. I was a few weeks away from seeing Bonzo, Plant, Page and Jones (for the first time) in Montreal in October of 1980 when the unthinkable happened and John Bonham died. Tour cancelled! The Levee is one of my all time favorites, such an epic recording with those crashing drums through the stairwell! The crazy stuff bands did on those days to get effects.
Nice job trying to get that rhythm there with those quick emphatic up down strokes, Bonzo style!
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That’s an automated response when you report an issue. Always wait for the live response from a human (usually Victoria). I notified her and she said the following:
Hi Pete,
Those are lessons in the past and you should be able to still access them, however I will reach out to the Team again with this. Thanks for your patience in the meantime.
Victoria
Tony’s Acoustic Challenge
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@Skyman911 aren’t you a lifetime member?
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@anthony3
Every week is a self contained lesson, when you a miss a week because your life happens, it won’t matter at all. It’s designed to teach things repeatedly in a cyclical fashion. That’s why newbies can join any time of year and just pick up where all the TAC students are. It makes things nice because everyone (aside from the intro 30Days and 5Days) is on the same lessons. When you need help there are hordes of TAC members at various skill levels doing it with you and willing to share experiences with you.Even individual daily challenges are self contained in a way. If you miss Mon, you can skip and start Tuesday. If you are a very new player it can be extra difficult to come in on Thurs or Fri since those are most advanced concepts, but you will still get something out of it regardless.
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There will be scales to “practice” (yes, kind of forbidden word since it sounds like work) every week. Not to worry if you didn’t “memorize” the scale from the intro course.
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I don’t know @Skyman911 flights within European countries have crazy baggage restrictions. I looked into it before my trip and decided it just wasn’t worth spending the extra luggage fees. It was hundreds potentially, you could buy a nice used guitar.
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Perfect! @Chiko
I find there is always something that I did a little better than the last time.