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Congrats! You are right to feel excited about year 2! This is where it really starts to happen! Unless you are a freak of nature sponge that can just soak up everything in the first few months. Most of us who have started later in life, really start to flourish during the second year which is where I am at (18 months in TAC). I still have a long way to go, but I’ve been noticing the time it takes to pick up things has shortened tremendously. I think years 2 and 3 are gonna be huge!
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Good points, @Coreena !
It’s useful to learn playing with a pick, and it has it’s place. Beginners especially can benefit in a lot of ways and for advanced players it’s also great for strumming.
On the other hand, many great players find the pick very limiting in their style of playing. It’s kind of obvious that fingerstyle has a great advantage. Numerically it’s 5 to 1!
But more notes isn’t always better. Some of best parts of music lives in the spaces! What a wonderful dichotomy music and especially guitar playing is!
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@profnordman50gmail-com when I joined 1 1/2 years ago I had the same experience. I had been “playing” guitar for 4 months, getting taught by a couple of other online teachers. 2 weeks into TAC and I was playing riffs I didn’t think possible at that stage in my journey.
My progress in the Tony’s program ebbs and flows, it tends to come in spurts after what feels like stagnation. That’s because all the while you are struggling and thinking you’ll never get to be any better, your brain is learning. All of sudden you’ll wake up, pick up your guitar, start playing and think God gave you new hands!
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Great job @outdoorgator
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Oh and I forgot to welcome you to TAC! You have found a great place of learning, enjoy!
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You should take a look in the skills tab. Lots of great stuff in there. This link will take you to the warm up/stretching within the skills tab.
https://tonypolecastro.com/courses/guitar-players-daily-stretch-guide/
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Thanks for the update Tony, it means a lot to hear you give us assurance! I sure appreciate TAC, it’s the best learning site I have even known and when I say that I am not just talking about music coaching sites, I mean all learning sites that I have ever been a part of (the list is long, believe me!)
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Many of us have lifetime, unfortunately it is no longer being offered. It made a lot of sense if you planned to be learning guitar with TAC for lets say the next 5 years, that drops the annual cost down to $125.
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I haven’t seen anything like you are describing and I’m this site every day for several hours.
5 Day Challenges shouldn’t be “popping up” unless it’s a Blues Challenge, the Basewalk Challenge or a Barre Chord Challenge and those are on the calendar. They would run the same as other weekly challenges Mon – Fri and not just pop up in the middle of a week. You would receive and email Monday morning announcing the current challenge. The 5 Day Bass Walk Challenge is coming up next month, should be the first week.
If you are getting some sort of unexpected 5 day thing pop up, this could be due to the issues we are going through with the TAC site, but I would want to see other people with the same issue before taking it to the support team.
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Wow! It’s a blessing then that you can play at all, even though it causes you excruciating pain. I’ll be praying that the pain subsides over time. Your story is so inspirational! The way you fought through adversity first with taking care of your Mom and then after the accident, you persisted through continuous setbacks – just determined to keep on rocking!
Side note: I took a tumble about 2 weeks ago. I went roller-blading with my daughters and grandkids. (I used to be a pretty good skater in my youth, I played hockey from age 8 until about 12 until my family left Canada in 1970. Even 25 years ago I was pretty solid on ice skates or blades).
First time on roller blades in the last 20 years. Started out a little shaky but the rust was starting to fall off. We were skating up an down the sidewalk near a local park. I decided to try going backwards and I hit a raised joint in the sidewalk and fell on my glutes really hard, my hands and elbows prevented me from hitting my head. Thankfully no damage in my hands or arms other than scrapes and bruising on the elbows. That’s all healed up now. The gluteus maximus is still a bit sore but also getting better. I was very lucky to not have hurt one of my hands, broken a bone (even a hip) and to have escaped hitting my head
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I have never had this experience you are describing @Stephen_B
Could you name or describe the module where these things have occurred?
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@jorgemac Victoria told me that it is “currently not being offered” so could it be offered again? It seems so, maybe they’ll offer it for a short period of time like they do with the Fretboard Wizard special?
It’s sad that they made the decision to remove it. I think I would have helped sell a lot of lifetime memberships. No better advocate than satisfied customers who have been here a while. I think they’re going to decrease overall revenue by not having it. Many will not renew after paying annually or quarterly (or heaven forbid: monthly!) but several of those might have converted to lifetime. So now they will get 0 from all those customers that would have upgraded and have to bring on extra new customers to overcome losing those.
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So funny! After I responded I realized that the guitar I play the most has an off-centered hole, it’s a good inch above the strings. So if the pick slipped while playing it wouldn’t likely fall in the hole. I don’t drop them often during play but I still lose them regularly. I keep plenty on hand just in case!
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Sorry, that’s never happened to me!
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You’re welcome, @Coreena
And welcome to TAC!
I read your bio, thanks for taking the time to give your story. You’ve come to the best place to learn guitar, Tony’s method is very solid!