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@DHA all the best for your journey in 2026, may those wins keep piling up!
They have for me since I joined TAC. You will find your progress is not linear at all, sometimes you think you’re going backwards and then after a time all of a sudden you get blown away by what your fingers just did! The human brain is a marvel and it plugs away when you don’t even know it!
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You start by putting your finger on the 3rd fret, strike the string and slide it to the 5th. You have to maintain pressure while passing over the 4th and 5th frets. It takes some getting used to, but not too difficult. It’s a very common move in TAC. Good luck on your guitar journey in 2026!
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I actually already sent you the link to the song vault in the last thread you started on this topic.
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That’s some persistence Barbara! Congratulations!
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It isn’t that type of site. The focus is on teaching guitar using songs as a vehicle. You might be interested in Ultimate Guitar or if you want teaching songs directly, Lauren Bateman.
There is a song vault, if you search the forum for song vault it should come up for you.
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Love all this! You rock!
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Wow! Another great one! How blessed you are. My grandchildren are still a bit too young and my playing still sucks a bit too much but hopefully next year….
Thanks for posting all these songs @albert_d !
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Delightful! Your granddaughter has a lovely voice! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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Well done! Record yourself, you’ll be happy you did! No need to post, just for yourself so you can see your progress in 4 months, then 8 and 12 months.
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Had the same thing happen @albert_d , I should be at 108 right now but the counter reads 100. Safe to say I’m not on TAC for the tech! Love it here nonetheless, best learning site I’ve ever seen. Notice I didn’t say “guitar learning site”, but best learning site!
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You have to hit the home page, this advances the counter. Every morning I go to the main page where your stats are and I watch the counter roll over. Sometimes it takes a refresh of the page for the Longest Day Streak to catch up to the Current Day Streak, but as long as the Current rolls over to the next day, your session will be counted. Of course there can be only one rollover per day. Multi session days don’t count extra.
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Do you think it would be a lot?
I’ll tell you: it would be next to nothing!
Progress tends to come in spurts. Yes you can find small gains by rehearsing over and over again and see noticeable strides from week to week But the really monumental times where you catch yourself taking giant leaps – those frequently come when you’re not expecting them at all! That’s what we call the magic and all too often people quit before it can happen.
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@KnottyJim when you struggle and feel that you aren’t progressing, be thankful!! This means you are being challenged and while you don’t know it, you are progressing more than you can imagine! When things seem very hard and undoable, you’re being pushed a lot more.
If you could do the challenge of the day immediately, how much would you have just learned?
Any idea?
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@Kerby that’s a good point that I neglected to mention above but I often emphasize in the forums. When learning/practicing chords you always want to be transitioning. Of course in the very beginning you are just learning the shape and you will do that for a few minutes but after you have the shape down, now move in and out of it from other chords you know. Try to find an anchor finger that works for you, this will make the transition so much simpler!
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@CamiB I love it! Whatever it takes to get your spirits up and make it fun again! Just try to keep a lid on your expectations, acoustic guitar is hard and it will take time to learn. How long? That varies from person to person and how much time you devote to it. Keep your sessions short though! Four 15 minute sessions spread out, with at least a 30 minute break in between will benefit you much more than playing for an hour. I’m retired so I spread my sessions throughout the day, I will often play 5 times or more and rarely fewer than twice daily.
Wow, your injury was 50 years ago. I’m no physician but something tells me it’s going to be a lot harder to get your left hand going than if it was only 10 years. I suspect that guitar exercise is good though, also the stretches that are in the skills section might be useful, but perhaps a bit more targeted therapy would be in order. Wish you all the best on your journey!