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Hey @PugDad it sounds like we have both been playing for about 2.5 years. I’m probably about a month shy of that, and started very consistent play in July of 2024. I’m still slowish on some chord transitions, but I’m getting better, I just go through them daily. Some of the songs I want to play require very fast transitions but there are many where you can get away with being slower. I make sure I play through one song for at least 5 minutes every day. I’m close now to being able to keep pace with a number of songs.
Braden mentioned the “hack” of just strumming even if you haven’t completed your transition. Tony has also mentioned the same thing in at least one of the daily challenges. I find this very difficult, my brain wants to halt if my left hand isn’t in place yet, but this is a very good thing to practice because rhythm trumps melody. If you don’t break rhythm it covers a number of flaws.
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Very similar question has been asked twice recently and the answer is on page one of the forum main page:
link: https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/topic/reviewing-past-lessons/
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Page not found – Tony's Acoustic Challenge
Page not found – Tony's Acoustic Challenge
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Nice pickin’ @Philb ! Very smooth transitions as well!
Both songs have a very interesting history: here’s a bit on the House of the Rising Sun: https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-animals/the-house-of-the-rising-sun
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I hate to see questions go unanswered, especially a newbie’s question!
I was hoping a FBW alumnus would reply to you. Now that I see your question about to fall off the 1st page I thought I would bump this and attempt to answer it. I don’t have FW myself but then it occurred to me that you might be asking about the Foundations of Fretboard Navigation section. So I went in and watched lesson 1 and Tony explains how to find notes starting on the A string. That’s kind of logical since our alphabet begins with A also. He moves up the A string and then moves on to the E string. He uses the low E which is on the top of the guitar.
Hope this answered your question.
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I read your bio, Jeanne and it always fascinates me to get people’s music stories. Quite a few musicians have come to TAC once they realized they wanted to begin learning guitar. For some reason your situation, finding tablature frustrating because you can read music, made me think of a fabulous musician who approached the guitar in a totally different way. Perhaps you would find him interesting to listen to, or get some inspiration from. Stanley Jordan is a Jazz guitarist who plays like nobody else.
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Common question @evuljeanne .
Many Daily Challenges are in fact based on a song, For example next week is Benchmark week and we’ll be doing Ain’t No Sunshine. Benchmarks are done once a month and they are all based on songs and are repeated 3 times per year so you get lots of opportunity t rehearse those songs and evaluate your progress. The following week will be based on Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl”. But the focus isn’t on learning how to play to song beginning to end. That part will always be up to you.
I’m reposting my thoughts from a previous reply on this topic:
If you search the forum you will find many good explanations. Tony doesn’t teach you how to play a song from start to finish and there are good reasons:
1. There are dozens of ways to play any song
2. He teaches you the skills that are used in hundreds of songs, perhaps thousands.
3. When a lesson is focused on a song he gives you about 75% to 85%. You get the chord progression for verse and chorus. What may be lacking are the bridge and vocals
4. He doesn’t just teach one way to play the song, he will often give you different strumming or picking styles for whatever level you are comfortable with.
5. The challenges are designed to teach players from absolute beginner to advanced, those with 0 days to 10+ years of experience. If he focused on just how to play a song, 95% of members would tune out. Instead he has nuggets in each lesson for players at all levels.
6. The songs posted here are by individuals who may have learned a certain song from the challenges but then spent their own time rehearsing it. Some of them are literally an exact reproduction of one of the PLAY videos with or without vocals
Others who post songs here have learned those songs in a myriad of different ways.
7. If you trust the process and stick with TAC, you will eventually have learned the skills to play thousands of songs; not that you will know them completely but you can learn to play it very quickly. (Multiple times faster than a new player just working on a single song at a time)
8. In a nutshell, TAC teaches you to become a guitar player. It doesn’t teach you the process of playing song1, song2 ….song10 from start to finish. If it did that, you would only be able to play those 10 songs at the end.
Also you would now focus on perfecting elements of the song in order to sound like the original artist. Tony frowns upon perfection because it leads to frustration and quitting. He wants members to have fun giving their best 10 minutes each day, marking complete and coming back tomorrow. Return consistently to your guitar and you will grow!
Final thought: there is a Song Vault on the site that is more tailored to teaching a few songs. I understand it’s from the earlier days of TAC, the new site no longer links to it, but it still exists. https://hub-lkx8655w8n.membership.io/
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There are several ways:
- On the home page there’s a ? on the bottom right side. Click on it and it will open a chatbox. You’ll be chatting with a robot, but if your issue has weight then you’ll get a follow up from Victoria or someone on the support team.
- You can email support@tonypolecastro.com, a quicker way to get directly to the support team
- You can try to direct message Tpolecastro. I haven’t gotten any replies from Tony this way but he has engaged occasionally when I tagged him in the forum with “@” followed by Tpolecastro. I’m not doing it here so as not to tag him in this post. But just put them together like it is in @timothyaroggeoutlook-com .
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By the way, do you know the Grace Like Rain version of Amazing Grace. It was very popular about 15 maybe 20 years ago. I’m not sure where it originated. I guess it was probably Tod Agnew, but Chris Tomlin popularized it as well. My old church used to play it frequently during worship. I miss hearing it.
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Like I said @misshamilton77gmail-com
the link is in the other thread. https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/topic/reviewing-past-lessons/
Sometimes taking a moment to poke around in the forum can get your questions answered. (Sometimes it will answer questions you didn’t even know you wanted to ask).
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reviewing past lessons - Community Support - Tony's Acoustic Challenge
reviewing past lessons - Community Support - Tony's Acoustic Challenge
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Jorge, I supplied YT links to make it easy.
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Also one of favorite covers ever in bluegrass mode is Sierra Hull – Mad World
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Speaking of Ms Krauss, what about her version of “When The Levee Breaks” with Mr Plant? They’ve done a number of Led Zep numbers.