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Common question @buzzcarla-cgmail-com . 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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I see where this confused you:
The TAB starts in the “A” Section which indeed starts on the A string.
But Tony teaches you the Boogie as a repeating pattern using the E string as the model for the rest. He calls it the “E” Section, which logically begins on the low E, then moves and finishes on the A string. This is the example for the other sections which he flies through much quicker because they are the same thing on a different set of strings: ” A” Section (A&D strings), “D” Section (D&G strings).
Tony will not always teach the parts in the order they appear, he will often work from top to bottom or the other way, which is quite logical.
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Just wow! That has to be one of the most difficult songs ever written to sing while playing. You do both so well, it’s a delight to watch!
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Very nice playing and that while singing! Wow, Sammy Hagar doesn’t even do that because it’s hard!
I see you live in Germany, but from hearing you sing it would seem you are not a German native.
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If you are new to tablatures, I certainly was 18 months ago when I started, there are bunches of videos on YouTube on the subject. Just search on guitar tablature explained!
The hardest part is getting used to the fact that it is sort of upside down. See yourself bending over the fretboard so that the high(thin) E string is at the top and the low E at the bottom. The numbers represent the frets: 0 means open -
Welcome to TAC and well done with your first small win! Not so small, really.
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Yes you can. Up to 6 week old challenges are available directly on the home screen. This video will show you how. Sorry it isn’t narrated for some reason my voice isn’t getting picked up. But it’s simple enough to just click where I show you.
For anything before that you have to do something different. I would try searching the forum because this question has been asked quite frequently before.
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We’ve all had this happen, we sit down watch Tony and play our guitars and then the next day the site says we missed yesterday and the counter starts anew. It’s happened to me a number of times.
I have a resolution but it won’t fix your past losses. It will prevent this from happening going forward.When I sit down at my computer the first think I do is click to the home page. When you do this you can literally watch the session counter roll over to the next number. I’ll post a video of it shortly. As soon as I remember to record it.
Every TAC page has the Acoustic Challenges logo in the top left corner, click on it and you’ll be taken home and you can watch your counter advance.
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I do have an electric guitar also. I fool around with all of my guitars. The finger is definitely heeling. Now it’s already a lot better than 8 hours ago. Thanks for the advice!
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@sjessen that is an adjustment to make! Most of us have been trained by our families, school teachers and bosses to be more or less perfectionists. Many instructors will want you to hold in place until you have “mastered” a certain skill. I had to unlearn my perfectionism too when I came to TAC.
I still remember like it was yesterday, I was in a wood-working class at 12 years of age. We were carving animals; only not with knives but using a rasp (kind of a file but with rough bumps that do the cutting). I had mine in the shape I wanted and I asked the instructor for sandpaper. But he said that I wasn’t ready for sandpaper yet. I needed to have my hippopotamus much more evenly smoothed out first. I couldn’t have any grooves on it that didn’t belong and it had to be uniformly smoothed out all over before I could move on to finishing. I could not go to step 3 until step 2 was perfectly done. In the coming weeks I had to go to him several more times and he would examine my work and then point out little scratches to work on. I felt like I was being held back from finishing my project. It turns out, I was.
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Welcome to TAC Ang! Trust the process and you will achieve you guitar playing goals.
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No problem @dld2608gmail-com , like I said you can only back 6 weeks. If you need to go further there are options. Check out this thread:
https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/topic/how-to-find-the-monthly-benchmark-songs/ -
When you’re new, your home screen may look a little different. Once the system catches up to your status (assuming you have completed the intro lessons 30 Days and 5 Day routine) you should see a link to this months bench mark at the top.
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I’m 58 weeks in, so I’ve already seen a number of challenges more than once. Yes they remain the same. The benchmark challenge weeks repeat about 3 times a year, you start to get very familiar with those. You are about right in your assessment.
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Absolutely @SCGobbler . You can search the Forums and you’ll find a wealth of feedback from others on the same topic. I could have gone on for several paragraphs to drive home the principle but it’s already been said and documented.
Try searching on the word “stuck” for example! Don’t hesitate to ask questions in the Forum though, no question is dumb!