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Nice job with the song!
We don’t get what we deserve (death), hallelujah, He came to save us! -
Love the sound of your guitar! Way to get your family involved, fun!
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@CamiB – Continue playing through, definitely want to keep in moving! There is no need to “master” or “perfect” anything. Try your best and mark complete. You can always come back and repeat later.
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Way to stick with it for a full year! Now hunker down because the magic will really start happening if you keep up a good pace! (I mean showing up regularly)
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You seem to be describing this:
Are you in the 30 Days to Play program? In the intro area Tony may teach you one way but in the challenges over the next year you’ll learn so many other options.
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The finger stretchability will grow with time, for now just do your best, move your hand if necessary or slap a capo on the guitar and move the exercise up the neck!
There are a few challenges, once you progress to those, that will require some crazy stretches and we all struggle with those, do our best and mark complete. Most challenges are not that way so not to worry. Keep the 80 – 20 rule in mind!
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Congrats @Ron-A ! Celebrate this as a big win!
FYI there is actually a separate forum for TACiverseries!
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It’s a tough one and I am certainly not all the way there yet, but when I think of where I came from, it is soooo much better. I am on my 5th run through Old Man, and I really turned the corner with the F mini very recently (within the last 5 months) and it’s getting better and better. I also put lighter strings on my guitar and that seems to have helped as well.
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Great discussion! On Jan 3rd I will be 18 months into TAC and about 22 months since starting from ZERO on my electric guitar. By Tony’s definition I know I’m a player, but I still don’t truly play songs and sing along to them. I don’t consider myself could enough to perform as I’m very mistake prone and I have to take several runs at the daily challenges before I can do a decent take. There are still a number of them that I absolutely suck at. On the other hand I have come a very long way from ZERO and I still feel progress regularly.
I think the biggest obstacle right now is my fretting (left) hand is slow. I want to play Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd which I selected because it’s only 3 chords, but I can’t make the changes fast enough! Especially C to G.
I am doing 3 finger (folk) G; so I only have to move the middle and ring fingers up one string each but my pinky tends to get stuck (or blocked by the ring finger) and not make it down to the high E string. Then I remember that when I started TAC I couldn’t do this 3 finger G to save my life, the pinky was bending funny and kind of spasming. Now I can not only do it easily but I can hold it for hours so it helps to look back at where you came from. Why am I beating myself up for not getting there quickly enough?
Similarly when transitioning from the G to A minor, the index finger is lagging in finding the B string. Someone said 1000 changes: I’m sure that I rehearsed these transitions more than a 1000 times because I’ll do it at least 10 times every day that I attempt it (which is pretty near to every day) and I’ve been at it for well over 100 days. Probably closer to 200.
I have got to remember that while I won’t be an expert player next year, this doesn’t mean that I am not getting better with each session and I am absolutely a guitar player!
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The lifetime membership is currently not being offered.
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@mojim60gmail-com the short answer is: TAC is a program that teaches all aspects of guitar playing. The focus isn’t on playing certain songs, rather the goal is to develop your skills to the point that learning hundreds of songs will be at your fingertips. Tony addresses this very question very frequently in the daily challenges. He doesn’t give you the exact recipe for a given song. Instead he shows you how to prepare the ingredients, recommends all the best cooking tools and how can tweak the recipe according to your taste or your audience’s.
This is a very common question that gets asked 2 or 3 times a month. Here is one of the latest threads on the topic:
https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/topic/30-days-in-not-sure-where-we-are-headed/#post-2159636
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It’s the 4th box on this page:
1. Small Wins 2. Play for Us! 3. Show Off Your Routine!
4. TACiversary Stories 5. Community Support 6. Benchmark Progress
https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/
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I would claim that with a resounding “ABSOLUTELY”!
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@the-old-coach I have 2 questions
1. Was the lifetime was not available during your first year, or even the second?2. Do you still have access to the forum without a membership? I guess you do, I just tried on a different browser where I’m not logged in and it works! So I guess I really only have the one question. lol!
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@the-old-coach when I joined I did the yearly plan and lifetime was offered at sign up. After a few weeks I wrote to support saying that I would now choose lifetime but how could I sign up for lifetime without trying it first? I was told I could upgrade anytime before the year ends and they would apply 100% of my yearly fee to lifetime. I did this later on and they refunded me everything as promised after I paid for lifetime. Now they have discontinued it, which I think is a big mistake, but I don’t run this show.