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You are doing well, keep it up! Not sure how long you’ve been playing but if you started any time last year…just wow!
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I noticed that on my initial pre- D chord strum, I wasn’t really striking the low E very intentionally. Going back today and looking for that hammer sound I realized this. By digging into the E a bit more I found that I could get the hammer to ring just a little bit.
As Supertramp would say: “I’m coming along”….small win!
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It’s a shame that so many players just give up, or appear to anyway by no longer participating in TAC. @BDUmedic seems to be another member gone inactive, after numerous TAC members tried to pour into him.
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Touching performance!
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Look at the Quick Start Guide on the Challenges home page. This is your road map that I think @Loraine is talking about.
I would suggest to do the current daily challenges and not try to (pick up where you left off). There isn’t a sequence in the yearly calendar, everything comes back around. Also the comments under the daily challenges are both fun and often useful and you would be partially missing out on these, because the comments would be dated instead of same day or hour.
Also there is no need to complete all challenges in a given week or even all measures of a daily challenge. It’s your path and just do enough that you are challenged for as long as it is fun. Next time you will most likely be able to do more.
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Or this might be even more helpful. I am seriously weighing this because I spend so much time reaching for my mouse while playing back videos. Just not 100% sure it will work with TAC videos. They say it works on YouTube + 50 other platforms.
https://vidami.com/products/vidami
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You’re having fun, that’s the main thing!
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Yes, you figgered correctly with the finger numbering: 1 – 4 translates to index – pinky
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@Skyman911 the only way I can get a clean F chord is by pulling my elbow tight in towards my rib cage. Both you and @Loraine are recommending to position the elbow away from the body. When I attempt to move my elbow away the E and the B strings begin to thud.
I can’t find a position where it works besides tucked tightly to my body. If I try to raise it more, now my fingers are coming in terribly flat and I’m muting all strings, chord modification would be out of the question.
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To get a little more familiar with the site, check out the Quick Start Guide:
https://tonypolecastro.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/TAC_User_Guide-v5.pdf
Section 5 covers the Daily Challenges you were asking about. Daily Challenges is where you go aftere completing 30 Days to Play and 5 Day Routine.
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Every Monday you should be getting an email from TAC about the current week’s challenges.
I would recommend spending a bit time learning how to navigate the TAC website.
But in the mean time here is a link to the Daily Challenges home page: https://tonypolecastro.com/home/
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Here is your goal setting material: https://tonypolecastro.com/audit/
We go over this every 90 days. We just did it recently in the Fab Five Week. During the weekly challenges of that week Tony speaks at the end of each video on how to set goals, but it isn’t necessary to review that I just thought it might be helpful.
If you are interested you can clickon this link to Day 1 of Fab Five, advance the video to near the end and he discusses goal setting each day during this week of daily challenges: https://tonypolecastro.com/lessons/pete-best-2-2/
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Guitar Enjoyment Audit – Tony's Acoustic Challenge
Guitar Enjoyment Audit – Tony's Acoustic Challenge
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I am saying this here to you @sumyra but for the benefit of others who have been here for less than a year and are perhaps on the fence about renewing would also be able to consider Life Time.
The upgrade is not offered on the site, but if you contact support they will refund you the previous year’s fees after you purchase lifetime. I fully understand that it is less interesting to you now that you have in fact already paid $600.
With the Life Time subscription I can be patient to wait for some new content to eventually be made available, as it is I get a lot out of the program, but I’m only 9 months in and not 3 plus years like you.
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@sumyra are you aware that you can purchase a liftetime subscription ($597), and the office will immediately refund your last annual subscription fee ($199). I just did this last week, and was refunded immediately. It kind of makes the decision very easy! Effectively you upgrade to Life at the cost of 2 years.
Even without new content, what is on here is worth it! I still am learning tons each time through the benchmark weeks as well as all the other weeks. Would I like new stuff? Sure I would, but it doesn’t matter that much. The substance is such that I can learn any song once my skills are up to snuff! Tony isn’t really teaching you how to play a song each week. He is really teaching you how to play dozens (even hundreds) of songs!
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Me too! Fender says that 90% of beginner guitar players give up within a year. I would hope that the TAC statistics are more favorable, but who knows?
If you search members in your location you will typically find a small number of active (last few days or weeks, months?) and then a bunch more that haven’t been active in quite a while. I don’t know if members who don’t renew, stay in the database or not. We don’t know if a member has a quarterly or annual subscription. I suspect, since there are 68,327 members, that IT isn’t purging accounts from the list