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Common question @evuljeanne .
Many Daily Challenges are in fact based on a song, For example next week is Benchmark week and we’ll be doing Ain’t No Sunshine. Benchmarks are done once a month and they are all based on songs and are repeated 3 times per year so you get lots of opportunity t rehearse those songs and evaluate your progress. The following week will be based on Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl”. But the focus isn’t on learning how to play to song beginning to end. That part will always be up to you.
I’m reposting my thoughts from a previous reply on this topic:
If you search the forum you will find many good explanations. Tony doesn’t teach you how to play a song from start to finish and there are good reasons:
1. There are dozens of ways to play any song
2. He teaches you the skills that are used in hundreds of songs, perhaps thousands.
3. When a lesson is focused on a song he gives you about 75% to 85%. You get the chord progression for verse and chorus. What may be lacking are the bridge and vocals
4. He doesn’t just teach one way to play the song, he will often give you different strumming or picking styles for whatever level you are comfortable with.
5. The challenges are designed to teach players from absolute beginner to advanced, those with 0 days to 10+ years of experience. If he focused on just how to play a song, 95% of members would tune out. Instead he has nuggets in each lesson for players at all levels.
6. The songs posted here are by individuals who may have learned a certain song from the challenges but then spent their own time rehearsing it. Some of them are literally an exact reproduction of one of the PLAY videos with or without vocals
Others who post songs here have learned those songs in a myriad of different ways.
7. If you trust the process and stick with TAC, you will eventually have learned the skills to play thousands of songs; not that you will know them completely but you can learn to play it very quickly. (Multiple times faster than a new player just working on a single song at a time)
8. In a nutshell, TAC teaches you to become a guitar player. It doesn’t teach you the process of playing song1, song2 ….song10 from start to finish. If it did that, you would only be able to play those 10 songs at the end.
Also you would now focus on perfecting elements of the song in order to sound like the original artist. Tony frowns upon perfection because it leads to frustration and quitting. He wants members to have fun giving their best 10 minutes each day, marking complete and coming back tomorrow. Return consistently to your guitar and you will grow!
Final thought: there is a Song Vault on the site that is more tailored to teaching a few songs. I understand it’s from the earlier days of TAC, the new site no longer links to it, but it still exists. https://hub-lkx8655w8n.membership.io/
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Well this thread just sort of leaped out of archives. Unfortunately @Hatteras-Jack the lifetime membership isn’t offered at this time. TAC discontinued it last year.
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Hard to pick my favorite, can I do a top ten list? LOL!
Black Magic Woman – Santana
All Around the Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix
You’re No Good – Van Halen
Pretty Woman – Van Halen
Jet Airliner – Steve Miller
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I discovered this YouTube Short today and it just blew my mind! This has to be the easiest way to start memorizing the fretboard. I spent 10 minutes and already have a pretty good handle on it.
Since we already know the G and C on the third fret (if not, now is a good time to learn them), it’s a great springboard to visualizing a large portion of real estate without a lot of memorization.
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@albert_d has delveloped a great systematic approach to develop his playlist, and the results are evident! I very much enjoyed his Christmas songs this past year.
I personally have side-burnered my song wish list, to be more accurate the list is growing because I keep thinking of new ones that I would like to play, but I am not rehearsing songs for the most part. I’m only rotating through a handful of songs because my focus is more on learning the basic skills. I’m not actually trying to perfect those songs by learning them start to finish but rather just getting my chord transitions smoother. I’ll work on the nuances of the songs later (the intro, chorus, bridge, etc). TAC is very helpful in this area, the many techniques taught can be adopted to creating your own intros and add a personal touch to a song.
Every time I have devoted extended time to a new song I found it was going to rob me of too much time and become a distraction. I have to get to a proficiency level where learning an easy to intermediate song could be accomplished in a matter of hours. Currently I am in the days to weeks range and that’s without vocals.
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If you have progressed into the Daily Challenges you can find past lessons in the left side bar. They are also accessible on the home page. There you will find left and right arrows to navigate to prior weeks, it’s a little trickier to pull up past lessons on the home page.
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Neil Young’s Old Man was only 3 weeks ago and is completely accessible, unless perhaps you haven’t entered Daily Challenges yet. If you are doing 30 Days to Play and the 5 Day Routine, then all that Daily stuff is probably not visible to you yet.
If you were already working with Old Man, go to @Moose408 ‘s Google Sheet and pull up the series there. Once you have entered the Daily Challenges, be sure to favorite Old Man and any others as you go through them.
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Jorge, I supplied YT links to make it easy.
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Also one of favorite covers ever in bluegrass mode is Sierra Hull – Mad World
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Speaking of Ms Krauss, what about her version of “When The Levee Breaks” with Mr Plant? They’ve done a number of Led Zep numbers.
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I thought so as well! It was a watershed moment for me, the screen that was hiding the fretboard disintegrated and I saw the notes for the first time!
Once you have that first pattern under your fingers and etched into your brain on all strings:
G …|……|A…|……|B
C …|……|D…|……|Ethen add in the 2 notes that follow on the next fret (half step):
G …|……|A…|……|B…|C
C …|……|D…|……|E…|F
Now you have all the natural notes and filling in the accidentals (the sharps and flats in between) is a piece of cake.
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Oh my goodness, totally forgot about Mercury Blues on Fly Like an Eagle, takes me back Jorge!
Steve has a very interesting life story, he was a child protege of Les Paul. At 9 years of age he learned how to play lead from T-bone Walker. He formed his first band with his brother on bass at age 12. At was 14, they backed Jimmy Reed at LouAnn’s Bar in Dallas. He came of age in the blues clubs of Texas and Chicago and transitioning to rock in London. He really had to work his tail off to make it. During his college freshman year, he spent the Christmas break teaching his high-school buddy, William “Boz” Scaggs to play the blues!
He was a very seasoned musician when “The Joker” became a smash hit and he was finally able to take a few nights off performing.
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Good point on the A-chord, I can barely fit my 1,2 &3 fingers, for a while I experimented with 2, 3 &4. Now I prefer the barre method (avoiding the high E).
People with all sorts of limitations have overcome them and excelled as guitar players, perhaps it’s because of them that they elevated to greatness.
Les Paul, Tommy Iommi, Django Reinhardt, Joni Mitchell. There are players with no hands and I think there is one with no arms, they learned to play with their feet.
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My apologies, when I replied I thought this was another (more recent) thread on the same topic that had Moose’s link in it.
I see in fact you are approaching the same topic in 2 different threads. The link is in the other one.