petelanger
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Welcome to TAC @lilcowgirl2483yahoo-com
Just know that everyone starting to play guitar thinks that they have one or more physical limitations that will hold them back. The longer you stick with it the less the apparent problems will hinder you. Many guitarists have short fingers.
While you are starting there are things you can do to help. If you don’t have a capo, get one and place the capo several frets from the nut. You can start with 2 or 4. Now you might be able to reach better because everything is closer together. Take a look at the warmup stretching exercises in the skills section. Warming up will loosen your fingers up and allow you to reach better. Think about what you can do regularly to help with your reach. I do some stretches throughout the day whenever I think of it. I’ll even do them at night when I wake up.
Don’t expect this to get a lot better immediately, it takes years. I’ve been playing for 2 years and still can’t reach everything that comes up in the TAC challenges, but I’m getting closer.
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Don’t forget the 5 Days to Play series must also be completed. Then they will start sending you emails with links to the daily challenges.
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I recall when I started it took a while for the home screen to refresh and start showing you the daily challenges. It will look like this:
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Discovery! (Perhaps some insight, maybe less than 2 cents worth)
I’m doing OK on my barre chord journey. None seem impossible, some harder than others. Noticing the limitations I’m experiencing, I’ve been examining the flexibility in each of my finger joints and also my ability to control the movement: bend the knuckle where it’s needed most.
The biggest problem is in the ring finger of my fretting hand is at the last knuckle (DIP joint), I have no problems at the MCP joint. I can only bend it about 45 degrees where 90 would be desirable to prevent muting of the string below it. Index and ring are almost able to bend 90 degrees
As I check out all my fingers I see there is a lot of disparity between all 8 fingers. It tells me that I must do stretching exercises to improve flexibility and control.
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Not sure if this is the same topic as @BrandonK‘s original request regarding FW:
E String Pattern 01 and
E String Pattern 02but I found this video very helpful:
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@BrandonK what were you wanting to ask? Your post seems to have been cut off mid thought. I don’t have FW. Please elaborate and someone more qualified than I will surely answer. Perhaps @jumpinjeff maybe, or @Skyman911
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<div>@PeterBStevenson it is up to you. Most will start the Daily Challenges but some will spend some time in the skill courses or revisit parts (even all) of the intro courses. It is your journey and you can take what ever path suits you. </div>
The Dailies are just that: a new challenge every week day and I would recommend following the schedule that everyone else is on so you can interact with other TACers about today’s challenge.
Here’s a link to the Quick Start Guide which is just a click (or tap) away on the homepage:
https://tonypolecastro.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/TAC_User_Guide-v5.pdf
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@mdrichman62gmail-com I have subscription to Ultimate-guitar.com. It costs about $25 per year, so far I’ve found everything I wanted to.
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Great story about finding that Martin! I’ve been playing on budget guitars and for a while I thought it could be a mistake. Would I learn more quickly on a better instrument?
Still debating, I’m constantly reading up and shopping for gear, mostly low end stuff, a little bit of mid level. I will treat myself to a nice unit in a few years time. I have taught myself how to set up my own guitars so even though my Donner is inexpensive, it plays with a soft touch, I don’t think it’s holding me back.
Sadly years before I started playing myself, fate brought me close to hauling in a dream axe myself. My mom was dating a man in his mid 80s who had suffered an aneurism and no longer could continue his guitar hobby. She even asked me if I could help her get rid of his guitars. He had close to a dozen electrics in his guitar room along with amps and pedals. I didn’t know the first thing about guitars at the time and wavered on helping them out. Not long after their relationship ended before I could even take a quick inventory.
I often think about what I missed out on.
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If you don’t start getting the email invitation to Daily Challenges, contact support@tonypolecastro.com
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I save all TABs into Microsoft OneNote. I have all the TAB sheets (including the Wednesday scales) saved to my cloud folders. I usually TAC from my my laptop, but I can pull up any tab on one of my tablets or my phone no matter where I am. The notes are searchable of course.
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This reply was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by petelanger.
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@Mika, in my opinion it’s preferable to go with the active schedule when you enter daily challenges. There is no need to try and play catch up, always just do the challenge of the day! Of course on weekends there isn’t a daily so you can go back to earlier in the week and repeat something.
These lessons are self contained, they don’t build on what happened the prior week. month…whatever. Furthermore the topics are redone in a new context, it’s all cyclical. This way every member is doing the same daily challenge and the comments under those challenges will be current. If you post you might get some feedback, which will never happen if you are doing a challenge that is not from the current week.
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Just adding an FAQ page would do wonders @VictoriaTACTeam
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My disappointment lies more with the instructional end of things but I agree it would be nice to have the same drilldown capabilities in the members area as well, @Loraine
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Hope you got it while they were offering the special rate. Then it renews at that low rate every year.
