petelanger
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It varies a lot for me, but I would say I average about 45 – 50 minutes a day, split up into 2 or 3 sessions. Some days I’ll do 1 session and other days I’ll do 5 or 6. I’m not logging my daily sessions so this is just what I think I’ve been doing, roughly 2-3 playing sessions a day. I’ve started another course so I’ll probably be stepping things up this year.
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@DZRShodan don’t worry! As @MattTX_24 said, guitar is hard. I don’t know how old you are but I strongly doubt that the ship has sailed. There are many in this group who are in their 60s and 70s who started recently. I started at 64.
The F-mini is REALLY HARD! It took me over a year before I could occasionally get it to ring nicely on occasion. It still isn’t clear all the time, I’m at about 30% when transitioning into it but improving. You can just leave out the High E string for now, if you don’t strum it you’re still playing an F major chord.
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Hi Tony, if your tuned in could you please give us an update?
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You can zoom in with Ctrl + (punch the plus sign while holding down Control key) in Windows. This works in most browsers.
On macs it’s : Option-Command-Plus Sign (+) to zoom in and Option-Command-Minus Sign (–) to zoom out.
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Hello @xiao-bai, my apologies but even though I am in the forum nearly everyday responding to people I do not know you.
Congrats on your 6th year in the program! I wish you all the best!
Peter
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I think Michael agrees with you.
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It seems up and down to me, generally it might be slightly more responsive than a month ago, put still not consistently good. I work in many other sites that are snappy on my computer, so I see the contrast when I come back to TAC. This also clearly shows that it’s a server side issue.
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I know what you mean, I had to make my own Chord Stamps for the many chords Tony teaches us in the Hotel California challenges. There are a few weeks it gets quite tough to keep up, but typically it’s not an issue.
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@michealfrancesgmail-com I really wish I could help you. It’s an awful feeling to know a brother is lost and can’t find his way. I hate to say it but nobody will be able to give you step by step directions if we don’t know where you are right now and what it is that you are not understanding. Is there terminology that Tony is using that you are confused by? If so, what lesson was it in?
I also didn’t sign up for TAC so I could support it. I am a player just like everyone else here who trying to help you. We all paid for our membership here and are learning to play guitar. I am happy to help but I have to understand how to help. There isn’t a track that we can put you back on. Everyone’s path is a little different based on their background and many other factors and experiences in their lives.
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There isn’t much of a track to fall off of. This program is designed to step in anywhere in the yearly calendar as the challenges repeat on a 12 month cycle and the benchmarks every 4 months. In addition the skills learned are repeated much more frequently. The Challenges are also layered so that a beginner and an expert can be learning from the same challenge just on different levels. This is where TAC shines because all players are on the same material and help each other out in the forums and challenge replies.
We don’t know where you are currently @michealfrancesgmail-com because you haven’t provided any details, I’m assuming since it’s been only 10 sessions and you are “lost”, that you are still in “30 Days to Play” or perhaps in the “5 Day Routine”. Either way if you haven’t entered the Daily Challenges yet and actually tried to do a number of them, you really can’t evaluate this program. It’s like eating the skin off the cherry on top of a wonderful chocolate desert and going “Yuk! I don’t like the skin on this cherry, please take away this awful dish!” You haven’t gotten to the central theme of TAC.
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I don’t print mine because I don’t want a paper war (and also I don’t have a music stand!). Instead I save them to my computer in OneNote, where I can make notes. I also started sending the ones I’m working on to my Kindle Scribe tablet, which has been a revelation because I can have that music (almost unlimited pages on a thin tablet) with me any time I want now. If I printed out the whole year of TAC challenge tabs, I suspect it would be at least a 5 lbs binder.
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@Mave I didn’t start this thread.
@michealfrancesgmail-com asked the original question, I’ve been trying to help him.
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@michealfrancesgmail-com I have been there too. It wasn’t until about a year into TAC but I also have been disappointed by admin. Before that I was impressed by them a half dozen times.
Is there any way we can help you? What exactly are you needing to get on track with. We have many experienced TACers who can provide guidance musically. The admin is there for technical support of the interface and do not advise from a musician’s standpoint. I checked your profile and noticed you have <10 playing sessions. You have hardly scratched the surface of this great program.
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Yup @MattTX_24 ! You are quite right. TAC is about learning how to use your instrument so that when you do go and learn songs, you are much better prepared and will learn them quickly (compared to spending endless hours learning a single song). There are countless other threads on this topic, even one near the top of the forum right now, don’t even have to search for it.
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Now that I have another guitar coach, I am also gaining another perspective. What she says about learning songs is “keep doing it! It is so good to learn songs, is so important to learn songs, sometimes songs can be the best teachers if you learn the why and the how behind them. But we don’t want to get in the habit of where we are just learning songs. Be at least figuring out what key they are in, which scales they are using etc. We want to focus on things that make us better for when we do learn songs.”
So don’t let the song learning get in the way of your learning guitar! If you are going to add a new song to your playlist, then use it to advance your understanding of the nature of the instrument. “We are learning to speak the language of the guitar”.