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This is normal, you can only navigate back weeks. Here are the links to entire week.
https://tonypolecastro.com/lessons/desert-highway-3/
https://tonypolecastro.com/lessons/mission-bell-3/
https://tonypolecastro.com/lessons/masters-chambers-3/
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I’m sorry to hear this. Seems odd that it was discontinued.
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@Brian Eastep
a while back I posted this in the forum. I might be interested in participating with players that are a similar level. I am still a beginner. Reading your profile you would appear to be a lot more advanced.
https://blog.landr.com/online-jamming-apps/
blog.landr.com
Online Jamming: 7 Ways to Play Music Together Online
Get the best solution for online jamming with other musicians. From DAW-based options to dealing with latency, here are the top picks.
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yes, reframing those negative thoughts is what you have to do continuously. Turn what you perceive to be a failure or loss, into a gain – no matter how small.
Like Tony says: “I showed up today”
– “I managed to do 2 of the 12 measures”
– “I tried very hard” (it didn’t sound like Tony but progress was made, it will be better next time!).
Just remember, the learning happens when you struggle! If you think about it, it’s pretty obvious. If Tony shows you something in the video and then you pick up your guitar and immediately repeat it back, what does that tell you? It tells you that you already had the skills to do that thing!
If it takes a bit of time, let’s say 20 minutes, then it comes along well you learned a little bit.
If it takes longer and you’re still not getting it right – well you still learned, probably learned more than in the first 2 scenarios, but it didn’t end in total dominance over the challenge. But there is growth that will unveil itself to you later on, could be in another challenge or the exact same skill down the road.
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I just wanted to respond to the “old folk songs with twangy voices and fast picking banjos” reference. I hope you weren’t generalizing the whole catalog of songs in the daily challenge rotation. I just wanted to make it clear to anyone who hasn’t been in the program for a full year that there is quite a lot of variety and not very much twangy stuff, but there is an emphasis on blues because of the blues’ awesomeness and their value for teaching guitar.
Hotel Calif, for example is not public domain, and there are countless other songs protected by copyright in the collection. Each one meets a purpose, and while some are not everyone’s choice genre/artist, I can think of a few that I would never sing around my family (due to the lyrics), there aren’t any banjo tunes and I find it quite ingenious how there can be so many little lessons in each selection.
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I’m sorry @BarbaraM you were probably referencing Fretboard Wizard and I can’t speak to FW because I don’ t own it yet. Perhaps I was out of line.
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Yeah, you just do it in your head: either don’t start until he reaches 3 or 1 whatever or else you can speed up the video up to 2x normal. Whatever works for you. It’s not all fancy bells and whistles here.
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Very common issue for all new players. Sorry I answered this and realized I completely glossed over the part about an injured finger. I will change my response here since it’s different when you have a shortened index finger.
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You could try to learn the 3 finger G using the pinky on the high E, the ring on the low E and the middle on the A string. There are a lot of situations where this fingering is useful. You may find doing this very difficult at first, I know I did! But after time it begins to feel more natural and now I have no trouble at all doing it.
I hope you can figure out some way to make use of your index finger, for now this shape might be a work around that will work in some transitions, but not ideal for all, I know.
Consider also that these open chords you are now learning (G, A, C, D, E, etc), that everyone typically learns in the beginning, are just shapes and one of many ways to represent a chord. There is always another way, people without arms have learned to play the guitar with their feet!
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@jumpinjeff well said! I see tremendous value here in at TAC and I think I’ve been quite open in the forum about it. Tony’s approach is unique and effective. I couldn’t stick to other guitar programs before I found TAC; heck I couldn’t stick to learning anything online. I would always fade away and quit. I am now 18 months in and still show up multiple times every day!
There are tons of free lessons on Youtube, and there are lots of expensive teachers out there online or offline. Neither can deliver what TAC delivers for your dollars spent!
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Ah yes, old man Hubris likes to take over in our brains! Thanks for finding the humility again to admit this little misstep!
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Yes the site has issues and has been down a number of times this year. Don’t know where it’s hosted, I know it goes through Cloudflare but they could be hosting or just providing the secure socket layer, not sure how to determine that.
What I do know is there are a ton of trackers on the website, these are cookies, pixels things of that nature. Lot’s of merchants track us here so they can sell us music and guitar stuff! This adds big time to the load on the server.
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@pfilippettibhaircraft-com you can purchase it whenever you like and go through it any time since it’s a lifetime product. I personally have held off because I didn’t want to overwhelm myself with another program “distracting” me, but it can be beneficial even for beginners and I might be doing myself a disservice by holding out.
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It’s always a great thread when you drop in Coach! I do that game to when I’m recording myself, start over and over and try to get a least 10 bars in before a major flub happens! lol! It’s really silly because the recording is mainly for me to measure against me. The more I eliminate errors the higher the standard becomes, what’s the point? Knowing this, I do it anyway and I’m reluctant to record in the first place. DOH!!!
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What’s going to be more beneficial than just starting from your hand at your thighs is to transition between chords. Go from A minor to C and back or rotate between 3 or 4 chords. I did a search on common chord progressions and found this list. I am not promoting this site in any way. Just listing some common chords used in songs and this came up in my search, looked useable. I usually use progressions in songs that I am in the progress of learning.
You may not have learned the F chord yet since it’s either full barre or mini barre, just skip if for now.
https://how-to-play-electric-guitar.net/images/chord-progressions.gif