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Hello and welcome @alice-schulte-ipny !
When you say it’s taking you a week for each part, are you talking about a video or a group of videos? Only asking because if you are spending a week on a single video lesson then I have to wonder why? Is it because you are only playing once a week, or are you returning to the same lesson day after day?
You really just want to try to do your best on each one and then just move on. It is not necessary to absolutely nail each section, you will be fine to proceed. Perfection is your enemy here in the TAC program, so I just want to make sure you aren’t trying to be perfect before progressing. If this is not the case then carry on as you were!
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Welcome @suet93msn-com ,
That’s wonderful! I hope to be playing with the worship team at my church within the next couple of years. There’s hope, I know the Music Pastor, he might even teach me a few things. Keep on praising Him! He is worthy!
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I don’t suffer from arthritis but know their are several here that can chime in.
Have you seen the warmup routine in the skills courses? I’ll post that below. But there are also ways to play chords with only 1 or 2 fingers while only striking 3 strings, you might consider this approach. Of course there are many TAC challenges that are built around the ten or so open chords that beginners typically learn first (C, D, D-, E, E-, E7, G, A, A-, A7) so use your discretion about which open chord shapes you might want to put on the back burner for now if you want to try out this alternative.
Daily Stretch for Guitar – https://tonypolecastro.com/courses/guitar-players-daily-stretch-guide/
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This is normal, you can only navigate back weeks. Here are the links to entire week.
https://tonypolecastro.com/lessons/desert-highway-3/
https://tonypolecastro.com/lessons/mission-bell-3/
https://tonypolecastro.com/lessons/masters-chambers-3/
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I meant to type:
you can only navigate back 6 weeks
I have a problem with a couple of my number keys, they don’t respond to a normal touch and I gotta clobber ’em!
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I’m sorry to hear this. Seems odd that it was discontinued.
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@Brian Eastep
a while back I posted this in the forum. I might be interested in participating with players that are a similar level. I am still a beginner. Reading your profile you would appear to be a lot more advanced.
https://blog.landr.com/online-jamming-apps/
blog.landr.com
Online Jamming: 7 Ways to Play Music Together Online
Get the best solution for online jamming with other musicians. From DAW-based options to dealing with latency, here are the top picks.
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@Loraine are you able to play with less pain now or is the wrist (or any other parts of your arm or hand) still giving you a lot of trouble? Has it been getting better since your most recent surgery? Sorry if you already posted a report recently and I missed it.
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@jumpinjeff well said! I see tremendous value here in at TAC and I think I’ve been quite open in the forum about it. Tony’s approach is unique and effective. I couldn’t stick to other guitar programs before I found TAC; heck I couldn’t stick to learning anything online. I would always fade away and quit. I am now 18 months in and still show up multiple times every day!
There are tons of free lessons on Youtube, and there are lots of expensive teachers out there online or offline. Neither can deliver what TAC delivers for your dollars spent!
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Ah yes, old man Hubris likes to take over in our brains! Thanks for finding the humility again to admit this little misstep!
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Yes the site has issues and has been down a number of times this year. Don’t know where it’s hosted, I know it goes through Cloudflare but they could be hosting or just providing the secure socket layer, not sure how to determine that.
What I do know is there are a ton of trackers on the website, these are cookies, pixels things of that nature. Lot’s of merchants track us here so they can sell us music and guitar stuff! This adds big time to the load on the server.
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@pfilippettibhaircraft-com you can purchase it whenever you like and go through it any time since it’s a lifetime product. I personally have held off because I didn’t want to overwhelm myself with another program “distracting” me, but it can be beneficial even for beginners and I might be doing myself a disservice by holding out.
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I’m sorry @BarbaraM you were probably referencing Fretboard Wizard and I can’t speak to FW because I don’ t own it yet. Perhaps I was out of line.
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It’s always a great thread when you drop in Coach! I do that game to when I’m recording myself, start over and over and try to get a least 10 bars in before a major flub happens! lol! It’s really silly because the recording is mainly for me to measure against me. The more I eliminate errors the higher the standard becomes, what’s the point? Knowing this, I do it anyway and I’m reluctant to record in the first place. DOH!!!
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What’s going to be more beneficial than just starting from your hand at your thighs is to transition between chords. Go from A minor to C and back or rotate between 3 or 4 chords. I did a search on common chord progressions and found this list. I am not promoting this site in any way. Just listing some common chords used in songs and this came up in my search, looked useable. I usually use progressions in songs that I am in the progress of learning.
You may not have learned the F chord yet since it’s either full barre or mini barre, just skip if for now.
https://how-to-play-electric-guitar.net/images/chord-progressions.gif