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No move on! We really should not be thinking in terms of perfection in TAC. Give it a good 10 to 20 minutes and mark complete! Once you get to the daily challenges you may not be able to do more than one measure, and that’s fine! Mark complete and continue. You want to consistently show up every day and play, Don’t worry about completion/perfection!
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Congratulations!
The 3 finger A chord is pretty tough, lots of variations of it. I have pretty large fingers and I play mostly on a mini guitar so if I use a 3 finger method, it’s usually #2, #3 and #4
To make things easier, you can simply barre the D, G and B strings with the index(#1) or middle(#2) and either mute the high E or don’t strum it.
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It’s a 34 hour drive for me, guess I’m not going! lol!
Looks like fun, hope you find somebody to go with you.
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Others have reported the same thing, but it loops for me.
I have had other issues with the site that are now resolved and still others that continue. Never had this not-looping issue though.
One of the weird ones is that I can’t post any smileys. Others post them because I see them, but if add a smiley face, it just won’t post. Now I tried to add a smiley and actually got an error message. So that’s new:
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My goodness @Bill1am! May God bless your poor soul!
Lost your mom, wow! Your story was so matter-of-fact like! Nice twist with that unexpected guitar offering itself up as you were grieving.
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@lecassandra it happened and you lived to tell the story! How wonderful!
I’m sure I’ll get put on the spot at some point. My whole family knows I’m learning and I have a son in law who is a music major and for the past 4 years is the music director in the church I am now attending. Another son in law used to lead worship in my previous church before they moved back to Texas recently. They’re good players and I’m not, but they are inspiration for sure!
Thankfully the 3rd son in law does not play, he is music buff though.
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@Wyatt I have this issue every day. There is a thread with solutions as mentioned by @BarbaraM
https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/topic/cant-publish-post/#post-2155999
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@BarbaraM I do think the comments are skewed a bit toward those who have gotten over the hump already. Personally I don’t usually post while I’m in the midst of my struggles and I had some struggles with this lick. I have the luxury of being able to do multiple sessions each day, so I divide and conquer the lick in chunks. Remember while you are struggling, you learn a lot more than while you breeze through things.
Here’s how I broke it up:
This morning I watched the first 4 minutes or so and played only the first measure. When I came back later on I added the slide. Then I realized that you go 0 – 3, then slide 3 to 5 and then 3 – 0 all on the B string. This is very symmetrical, just like the reflection in the Snow Covered Hills the [land] slide is a mirror: 0 – 3 <=> 3 – 0. So I had 2 the first 2 and a half measures memorized quickly because the first 2 beats of measure one are repeated from yesterday. Just have to add that hammer on the “3 And”.
Then, my next session I saw that in measures 4 and 5 you actually have 4 repeated “open to fret 2 hammers” on the D string. Just have a little bit in between to learn and that base walk at the end (open A – 2 – 3)
Not that I have memorized everything, but I’ve familiarized myself with the contents of the lick. Now I don’t have to keep my focus on the TAB that much while playing.
Hope that helps
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Tony has been playing for decades, for him it is quite effortless. For us newbs it takes a little more doing. Your pinky will get stronger and increase in dexterity if you show up regularly and play the daily challenges. I have noticed huge strides in controlling the pinky (among a host of other skills) after a year of TAC.
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I’m probably not your best option to explain this, since I’m a beginner myself. But I’m fully bought in to this teaching method, it works for me and there are quite a few players here who have been with TAC for 5 or more years, some over 10 years.
The daily challenge is not going to be the same for all players. Your approach will change as your skill level increases. Every day of the week addresses a different area of guitar playing:
Monday – Technique
Tuesday – Guitar Lick
Wednesday – Improvisation
Thursday – Rhythm Guitar
Friday – Chord TransitionAs the lesson progresses and to some degree as the week progresses things get more difficult. But you are correct, Tony doesn’t teach you how to play complete songs If you can already play a lot of songs, much of what he teaches will allow you to “spice up” any song that you already know. Do you already know how to play all those songs you mentioned in different ways? He will give you some ideas on how to mix it up and make it more interesting.
You can take something he teaches you in almost any lesson and apply it to something completely different. He makes you an overall better player.
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I know there are folks with writing chops on TAC, I’m too much of a newb but I would like to follow what’s going on here.
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@alajg5yahoo-com yes, that is completely normal to panic the first time trying a daily challenge. Not all of them have the same degree of difficulty, but some of them are can be very difficult. They are meant to challenge players at any level. Beginners can’t possibly be good at playing the same thing experienced players are interested in doing. When I first started, often times all I could do was a single measure.
Relax, you are poking your nose down the black diamond trail in Jackson Hole Wyoming. You may want to slide down on your butt without skis the first time.
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There are a lot of us old guys (and girls) on here, I’m 66 and started TAC a year ago, started guitar about 18 months ago. I’m still a beginner but I’m amazed at the things I’m capable of now. Guitar is a hard instrument to learn, it just doesn’t come quickly. Just like you’re not going to knock a Nolan Ryan fastball out of the park if you had never played baseball. You would be fortunate not to get injured and it would be miraculous if you made contact with the ball in your first month of trying.
Everybody is at their own level and will learn at their own pace, no two are the same. Try to be a slightly better you tomorrow than you are today, that is the only thing you should compare yourself to.
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I had a big long answer typed up for you, but then I thought to myself I have no experience in teaching that lends me authority to recommend what I prescribed. They were just drills that I thought of, And you mentioned that there was no point in doing drills if you’re doing them with mistakes.
We have to learn to trust our picking hand to go where it’s supposed to go, that can only come by doing. The more regularly we can do a thing, the more frequently we can do it without error.
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@Bill1am that symmetry extends 4 more notes than I mentioned in the earlier post:
the mirror begins with a 0 -2 hammer on the G , followed by
the 0 – 3 <=> 3 – 0 on the B, and finally 2 – 0 back on the G