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Do you have the right too to check your action? Do you have a “ruler” something like this: https://down-th.img.susercontent.com/file/e9199aeed46061b5010eee2379d64516

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@BarbaraM

I hope this video explains how I’m doing. I pluck with the thumb on the A and 3 fingers hooked under the D G B strings. I keep my hands in the same position and come back to hit the strings with my nails. I don’t have to move the hand much at all to hook into the strings again.

https://youtu.be/MnWxMFJoUxQ

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I’m uploading a video right now. I am having to sit in an awkward position in order to get a good camera angle so one can see what’s going on. As a result, the execution isn’t the best and I’m not quite getting the desired sound.

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https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/topic/cant-publish-post/#post-2155999

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@JILLC @Berndog

This is a known glitch (the “Tony Polecastro says” I’ve reported it to Tech several times and they choose not to fix it. Please report it to them, if enough people complain, maybe it will get fixed. There’s a workaround which I’ll post below.

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Many of us have experienced this! Thank-you for asking!

This occurs in the comments area under the challenges and not in the forums. What happens is your first post is without any issues. When you go to add another, it won’t post and you might see a message box with the text:

tonypolecastro.com says
with an OK button in the right bottom corner

There’s a work around:

1. click ok
2. copy your post into the buffer with the copy or cut function
3. refresh the webpage
4. paste in your comment
5. try to post
6. sometimes it still won’t post but you won’t see an error message box. Make a small change in the text (add punctuation or a word). Now it should post for you!

Support is aware of the issue but says it isn’t affecting enough users to warrant having their IT team correct it. I have chatted with Victoria a number of times about this to no avail.

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@ted1018gmail-com

That’s the folk G chord, a variation widely used and even taught in the TAC program. You may use whatever works for you. Sometimes you will use that particular shape in order to be able to make certain chord modifications in a daily challenge. It’s almost always feasible to use your preferred shape most of the time.

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@JSR
Very impressive start to your guitar journey, and wow – nice gear!

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What works for me is to keep the general shape of the finger picking hand but I curl the ends of fingers just a little more and when I slap I’m hitting with the flat part of my nails. I give it a quick hit, I try to get the strings to slap against the frets (not perfect with that but getting better) but now you have to slide your hand down just a tad and real quick to hook onto the strings make the next pluck.

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@Stuck just had another thought about this. On Monday’s Tony’s Daily Challenge usually starts off with him playing through the featured song of the week. He’s not going to play all the verses but he’ll do a verse, chorus and bridge sans vocals so that’s about the closest you’re going to get to a whole song.

He really wants you to put all the parts together because there’s valuable learning in accomplishing that yourself. If you want to learn how to sing along, the 5* Hotel week has a good lesson on that. Go to the 6:00 mark of this video:
https://tonypolecastro.com/lessons/lovely-place-2-2/

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@RadioDave the benchmarks will repeat. Ain’t No Sunshine has come up on these dates: 9/8/24, 1/14/25, 5/13/25 , 9/9/25, 1/19/26 ~ every 4 months.

If you desire, you are free to play the song or do some the challenges as an exercise or warm up or whatever you please. TAC gives you the freedom to use what you’ve learned in any way that tickles your fancy. I have certain ones that I have enjoyed playing and have repeated a lot throughout the year, usually on my TV couch when nobody is listening but occasionally with my wife next to me.

Of course, which ever chord progression that you repeat more often will stick better and you will find it easier when it comes around again. But if you just do your best each challenge day, you will move forward, no more is required. If you are enjoying yourself with whatever you are doing with your guitar, you should keep doing it.

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Tremendous milestone @outdoorgator! Celebrate this, you truly rock!

I’m at 541 today so about half as far along as you. I’m pleased with where I am in my journey, not doubting that I will get to where I want to be but also satisfied with where I am! When I get to 1000 you’ll be very near 1500!

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LOL!

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So strange I did a search in a spreadsheet with all the titles and came up empty. Well done @kelly868 !