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My wife finally kicked me out of the house! LOL!
Haha! Now you charge admission for her to come watch you play!
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There are actually a number of such threads that go into depth about why it can be counterproductive to throw your energy into learning songs, I didn’t find such a thread in my time available to answer you. I think it was @the-old-coach who gave some of the best replies
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@CCameron this question is asked about 2-3 times a month on TAC.
The answer is, it isn’t that kind of site. Here are a couple of links to the same question asked in the past:
https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/topic/songs-to-learn/#post-2159693
https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/topic/are-there-actually-songs/
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@msobochangmail-com I know the feeling!
When I started in July of ’24 I went through 30 Days and the 5 Day Routine with relative ease. Not that I was perfect on anything but I had started guitar about 4 months prior and I was able to finish those 2 programs in about 20 days.
When I entered the Daily Challenge I was in for a big surprise….I immediately hit a wall about day 4. But I just stuck with it and did as much of each challenge as I could, sometimes it was just one measure. For many of those early lessons I would do about 5 minutes and then go back and repeat Monday and Tuesday’s lessons. After a while it starts to get better, then the benchmarks come back around and you can go a little further. The skills in many of the challenges repeat over and over. Just hang in there!
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Not sure which lesson you are referring to, but NO! It’s never required to go 1x speed on any lesson in TAC. I am on session 558 and there are still challenges I don’t play at full speed. You don’t have to reach that level or play without mistakes to move forward to the next lesson or next series. Everything you are learning now will be repeated, progress before perfection!
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Have a wonderful time in Mexico, @Skyman911 !
I have a heart for that country, having dated a half Mexican (her Dad was Irish) girl in college and we were engaged before my second year. Our honeymoon was going to be in Puerto Vallarta. Unfortunately, due to my stupidity we split up by the end of my second year in college. I met another lovely Mexican lady who was visiting Ottawa from Puebla while still in college. I even went to visit her in her hometown after graduation, nearly married her also!
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@Mave just know that almost everyone struggles with the daily challenges at the beginning. Heck, some of them are still very challenging after almost 600 sessions, just in a different way than at the beginning because they are layered. The first few times you only do the top layer and then you go deeper in.
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We are in the process of learning Wagon Wheel this very week in the Daily Challenges. If you are still on 30 Days to Play this may not be available on your homepage. Did you get an email to the start of the week with the link? I would post it here but it’s about 2000 characters long and I would rather not. Let me find the shortcut for it.
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It’s true that we will not become great players in only ten minutes a day. I don’t think it’s the goal of most on here to become a great guitarist, but we certainly want to get better and that’s why we’re here. You will improve with 10 minutes of playing through the lessons, keep in mind this does not include watching the videos at normal speed since each challenge is around 10-15 minutes. I usually don’t have to watch it through to the end though, just a few minutes and then I’m flipping over to the play video.
Those ten minutes are not my only guitar time though, I frequently am adding 30-90 more minutes throughout the day. I probably still won’t get to be “great” but I’m planning on getting proficient if I live long enough. I am also supplementing TAC with other lessons to accelerate my progress.
Finally I wanted to address what @michealfrancesgmail-com said:
does it mean “we shouldn’t worry about accomplishing things on this site, just keep going”. I would answer yes and yes. Don’t worry about accomplishing things, instead look for small wins. The small wins add up.Most importantly, you may struggle through a challenge and think you did just awful, but you don’t realize how much you learned in the process. That will get revealed later on. Struggling with the subject matter is what you are looking for, your brain is lapping it up in the process.
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It’s a very simple program. You go through the 2 intro series (30 Days to Play and 5 Day Routine) then you enter the daily challenges. That’s all that you need to do. I found this was a beautiful thing, I didn’t have to question what to do, just show up for my daily lesson.
I believe that some come here into the TAC program and they want to shape it into something they are used to. I’m not saying that is you @michealfrancesgmail-com but I’ve seen it in the past. It really is just a 15 -20 minute per day program. Many will supplement with other learning tools. I have several other sources myself but for a long stretch, TAC was my primary and at times only source of learning.
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@michealfrancesgmail-com have you looked at the quickstartguide?
https://tonypolecastro.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/TAC_User_Guide-v5.pdf
Otherwise there are plenty of people willing to help you navigate who have been here for years. Please try to be specific so that we can be more helpful!
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Yes, you are on to it. I am quite sure Tony does this intentionally. He prefers not to show you one way to play a song, when there are literally hundreds of ways to play any song. His methods show you how to take the song and dress it up – make it your own! When you have learned enough from TAC you will be able to learn as many songs as you want to, but much more quickly than today (if you are like me with limited skills).
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