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Welcome back! Quite a collection you have!

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To get a sound out of your pull off you have to give the string a little “pluck”. I slide my finger downwards (perpendicular to the string) while continuing to hold it against the fret and slide off flicking the string slightly. I don’t even have to use the strumming hand at all to get a sound out of the pull off.

Hoping this helps and it’s not something you’ve been told already.

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@rush70583yahoo-com @DennisW – yes, just jump into the rotation. The challenges are not linear, they don’t really go from easy to difficult. They are all over the map and each one has layers for players at different skill levels. That is how it’s managed. Members join at different times in the cycle and after doing 30 Days they jump in the rotation. And since this is the structure, it doesn’t matter if you miss a week or 2. You won’t “fall behind” and need to catch up. Just start back in where everyone else is, the skills are repeated in different challenges, no worries! Just have fun playing!

After a few months you will get a feel for this and have gone through more challenging and less challenging lessons. There will be some that are difficult even for seasoned players. No matter the difficulty you always give it your best for about 10 minutes and mark it complete. This doesn’t mean that you finished it, not in the least. It only means that you tried your best and didn’t give up immediately. When I started there were some I could only do 1 or 2 measures. That is no longer the case today.

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Very nice playing! Smoothe!

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I wonder if it got renamed, there’s a series titled “Sing Like an Angel” and possibly the daily challenges were renamed to:

Heartstrings: https://tonypolecastro.com/lessons/heartstrings-2/

Angel Walkie Talkie: https://tonypolecastro.com/lessons/angel-walkie-talkie-2/

etc

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Can’t seem to find this one, I see it mentioned in @Moose408 ‘s catalogue, but the link is eluding me.

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Also raising the neck might help. Positioning the hands in relation to the guitar neck is key! Play around with neck level and position of your elbow, you may need to bring it toward your body.

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It did this to me as well when I started. Eventually it went away. But I did get the links in my email to start the daily challenge.

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Thank you @DiscostewLA for all your inspirational content!

I do hope they can get the pages to load quicker, I’m not seeing 1 min delays (more like 10 to 20 seconds which is horrendous, not to minimize that!). It’s better occasionally but then always reverts to suckage. @Tpolecastro where are you?

Most of the internet content creators know how to set up a website, why is TAC this way? I come on here mainly to help others and not so much for myself anymore. I’m starting to lose interest though. It just doesn’t seem to liven up, and it saddens me. I came here looking for a community feel, but with this backbone I’m not seeing it happening.

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I’m still in TAC, @jorgemac . I will be here for years to come, but I do like having another excellent source.

I just sent sent a dm.

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@mdrichman62gmail-com benchmark challenges come around every 4 months, the rest repeat annually. But the skills themselves are similar and/or have many elements in common so you “catch up”, if you will, in a different challenge. It is counterproductive to try to “finish” the challenges. Early on I was unable to play through many of them, today that is no longer the case.

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In the daily challenges throughout the year Tony addresses this concept of completing the challenge. Of course he isn’t going to talk about it every single day, but if you show up regularly you will hear it preached: perfection is not required! Spend your 10 – 20 minutes and mark it complete!

If it had to be perfect I would not have very many completes throughout the year, if any!

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I’m really still a beginner @JILLC , I’ve been in TAC since July of 2024, but I’m a fairly slow learner

I was referring to keeping up with the chord shapes. There are some challenges where he doesn’t have diagrams on the TABs and yet goes through a large number of chord shapes quite quickly. It’s not a big number of them, single digits throughout the year. But the one I mentioned is the only one where I was so confused that I couldn’t save myself without creating my own chord stamps. Next time we’re in that benchmark I’ll post them again, I still use them to help with the challenges.

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Lol! @jorgemac always pretty much talks over my head. Hoping I’ll catch up to his understanding eventually. This thread sounded interesting but after pulling it up, I’m realizing it’s a lot of work just to try and understand it! Thanks Jorge for keeping me on my toes!