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I never use the split screen function. I have a large monitor where I expand the video to full screen. I have the TAB on my laptop screen, sometimes I’ll use my tablet instead.
Not to say there is anything wrong with using PIP, I just find it’s too small and that there are other options.
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@jorgemac said:
“I’ve hand built 20 guitars, 10 electric, 10 acoustic”
WOW!! So awesome and very inspiring! I do want to build at least one.
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You can still access them from the TAC homepage for the next 6 weeks, then they will roll off. Make sure to favorite them, then you can access them year round. Perhaps you haven’t entered the daily challenges yet so you aren’t seeing the section where it says:
View Previous Challenges.
Here is a link to Monday’s lesson, from there you can access all the rest of the days down the left margin.
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@mark-cronenwettpm-me not sure what is going on here. Is it that the chord changes take that long? If so then you can train yourself to “automatically” make the chord without thought. This isn’t an instantaneous thing though, it will take time. My chord changes were also very slow when I started but now that I’ve been playing daily for nearly 2 years they are coming faster. There is still a lot of room for growth but I have come a long way.
Is there a reason that you suspect the guitar might be handicapping you? I’m not going to advise you to spend money that you might regret later. Maybe your guitar needs to be setup? I don’t have enough information to know what’s best.
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@scholbrgmail-com @Archenemy64
Yes, you change the speed in the playback video. Unfortunately he never recorded different speeds and this fools a lot of people, I had the same thought when I started here. But believe me, this is a small issue (compared to how great TAC is in general) and after a few weeks you won’t ever think about it again until somebody joins and and asks the question.
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You are all most welcome. I made them when I was a Newbie and could not remember how to navigate and where to place my fingers. I’m glad that it’s helping others, makes my time spent so much more worth it!
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Don’t worry about being crappy, almost everyone is when they start the challenges, unless they’ve been playing for a while. Tony shows you the chords in every challenge so you can learn them there. Of course if you don’t know any chords you’re not going to get very far in 10 minutes, but that’s ok. Definitely move on, you don’t need to perfect the 30 Day or the 5 Day things! No perfection anywhere here in TAC!
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I should have picked up on the smiley face emoji! My bad @mark-cronenwettpm-me Like @jumpinjeff says, keep moving. No need to linger in 30 Days. You will find that this program is not structured with a beginning and end, so it’s always ok to say “NEXT”. The Daily Challenges have tougher elements in them than what you’re seeing now, but that doesn’t mean you can’t tackle a portion of them. Then do more next time. We don’t pursue mastery here, always just do your best and mark complete!
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It sounds like you are very experienced, have all the tools and would be good at it! I have almost no experience and I’m giving it some thought.
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@jorgemac – I’m ROFL! Warning received! I’ll try to keep my habit in check. So far I’ve done pretty well. Since February of ’24 I have bought only 3 guitars. Actually 2 because I returned 1 of them and bought another. I have a third because my wife already owned an acoustic. I also bought a mandolin.
You started such a long time ago. I have decades of missed opportunity to do the thing that I love. It’s peculiar, because I’ve always loved guitar playing, was drawn to it. For unknown reasons I never started to learn how to play myself. Most songs that I listened to in my youth I typically didn’t remember any of the words to because I didn’t care and wasn’t listening to the lyrics. I was sucked in by the music and the guitar especially.
With all that gear, did you ever do setups for other people? (for money?)
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You’re welcome @Leo7
Please understand that I am not telling you not to watch the LEARN videos! I have watched all of them many times over. What I’m saying is for your first TAC session of the day, you want to be smart with your time. So only watch what you need to get the first measure, pause and then play guitar. Do this again for the next measure, and so on until time is up (~10 min). Mark complete! Now at some point later that day or another day, perhaps on the weekend you should go back and watch more of the LEARN videos. (You can do that immediately after marking complete if you have the time and desire. Some days you won’t have the time though, but don’t feel bad about it!)
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I’ve had Mom living with me since ’07. Only the last year has been difficult, before that she was still pretty mobile. She was still driving until 2019. Sadly she’s been falling apart physically for a while and now mentally as well. It’s not Alzheimer’s, she’s not doing anything too crazy and still knows everybody (but forgetting a lot of their names) and I’m having to take control of her meds because she can’t anymore.
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You’re not kidding, I’m hooked! I’ve got the action set up better than it ever has been.
I keep ordering more stuff and now I have buy a nice tool bag to put it all in. As soon as everything comes in I can get that last pesky fret taken care of and ’99’ (that’s what I call her) should be A-okay.
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Yes this is normal. To vary the speed and maintain the pitch, the encoder/decoder (CODEC) has to replay sampled audio multiple times to slow down the speed or remove chunks of audio to increase it. Very high quality CODECs can do this a bit better, but there is always going to be distortion (possibly a warble or choppy sound) because you’re not playing the original audio anymore. Analog recorders like tape would give you truer sound, but the pitch would be heavily altered.
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Good questions Not all weeks will be as elaborate as benchmark weeks are. Since these are repeated 3 times per year, there are even more layers to unpack for all the differently endowed students. First time through you are unfamiliar with so many things. While you get acquainted with TAC it will take you more than 10 minutes, but I would say if you are spending an hour then you are probably trying to do too much. Also practice is not part of TAC, that’s your on your own time. We only play in TAC
Try to watch the first section of the video after the introduction where Tony says he’s showing you how (or “I’m walking you through it). Pause the LEARN video and do that thing the best you can with the PLAY video. We’re not practicing, just doing it 1 – 3 times. If there’s still time, repeat with the next section. If you are past 10 or 15 minutes at this point, mark complete because you have completed the assignment of today. Take a break! (Beginners will only do a small part of the lesson, but next time you’ll find the first section goes easier and you can tackle a bit more.) If you have more time in the day later then come back and watch more of the video. You can come back as many times as you like each day, but you want to know you don’t have to.
Keeping the session at 10 minutes was not possible for me early on, I think I went 20 to 30 minutes usually but now I usually don’t need to watch much of the LEARN video, I can quickly move to the PLAY part. I have already downloaded all the TABs so I can just skip to where Tony shows what we’re doing and then just do. Sometimes I’m done in 3 minutes now. Lessons vary. Wednesdays always take longer because of the scales. Those too go quicker with familiarity.
Don’t forget you can slow down the those videos and play along at your speed!