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TAC is the best guitar learning platform, bar none! I firmly believe that it stands alone in it’s design to draw you in daily and provide fun lessons for players and many different levels. That isn’t an easy thing, no 2 players are identical in skill level and in what they find interesting. It would not be hard to be boring for some, but even very good players say they get something out of the challenges.
That said, there is always room for improvement and many active members and newcomers come here with good intentions and offer suggestions. Accessing past challenges is something that comes up very regularly. It’s interesting that Tony & the course designers gave us direct access to lessons going back 6 weeks and deemed that sufficient. There are are requests and questions that are also repeated with regularity.
It would be over the top if TAC had a Knowledgebase. If you don’t know what that is here is an example. They are almost always behind a paywall but sometimes you can get a glimpse of what it looks like. It’s essentially a database of Knowledge. You can see the structure here but in order to get to the articles you have to have valid login credentials:
https://userapps.support.sap.com/sap/support/knowledge/en/1868899
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This continues to dog me but actually not so much here in the forum, more in the comments area under each challenge. There I’ve been running into issues daily. The first post of the day is fine but if want to not just leave a single comment, but perhaps say hello to somebody or just post another comment in the same area, then tonypolecastro.com invariably wants to say something.
He never actually says what he wants to say, but the message I’m feeling is: “Foghett-abahd-it!”
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Hey @ronan-58comcast-net , welcome to TAC. I turned 66 in July, been here for a year. Still miles to go, before I rest. You made an excellent decision to come here.
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Welcome to TAC! Hope you love it as much as I do.
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Amazing what Tony Iommi was able to do with his protheses fingertips! He adapted and it is said that playing with this handicap led to what we refer to as heavy metal.
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I had this issue again today. I went to post and then got a nice box saying:
“Tony Polecastro says “
I tried it in another browser and still could not post. Something is definitely amiss.
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Don’t know the tune but another excellent performance Kevin!
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Welcome Anniel! How cool that you have learned to build guitars, I am so envious of you! I wish I had found my love for guitars sooner, because at 66 it just seems a bit late to learn. I bought a few small luthier tools but I haven’t introduced them to my instruments just yet (or only very briefly and casually), perhaps I have a bit too much respect for the guitars and I don’t want to hurt them too badly.
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Moose408 Daily Challenges link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yFrgXyD1-mLDIBZ1VrIV_uxeMGFlBUiqXtlo3oWsEsc/edit?usp=sharing
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I had some of those thoughts too early on, because I had started other guitar programs earlier in the year which I faded from, but I see it now as a flaw in the program if it isn’t drawing me in. TAC never fails to call me back. It’s enjoyable while being challenging and it regularly reveals growth to me, keeping me motivated.
You do have to have your expectations adjusted appropriately. It’s not going to turn you into Mark Knopfler overnight. Improvement is a gradual process that can’t be forced, the fruits will come when you aren’t expecting them, which is often more delightful than if you could dial them up.
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No luck! No cages got rattled. There aren’t enough people reporting problems. Seems odd since I am having the issue constantly. Victoria said they will only engage the IT Team if it’s a large enough issue, it has affect many users. I get it, but she also stated their IT Team “monitors the site for technical issues, such as the site going down, Members not being able to log in, etc. They do not post comments.”
So they “monitor” the site but they don’t test it for functionality. They make sure it is up and that people can log in. They don’t test to make sure the site is doing what it’s supposed to do. They wait for complaints, enough complaints to where it’s a mob. Then they’ll act when the mob is angry. I thought I was being helpful trying to troubleshoot an issue and help them prevent widespread complaints.
But I have confirmed that I can post as long as I copy my message that failed. Refresh the page and then change the failed message a bit. If I just paste the failed message it won’t work, have to alter it, then it goes.
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@BarbaraM refreshing the page doesn’t do it for me. But I’ve found if I refresh the page and then alter the post that I copied it sometimes will go through. Going to test this and see if that’s a solution.
Weird behavior, it really shouldn’t be this hard to interact with people in the community. Support (Victoria & Co.) have not been much help. I’ve raved about them in the past but with this issue they’ve downplayed it as being of no consequence. Maybe I’m alone but this affects my experience in a big way. Tony encourages us to greet others in the comments and this issue stops me dead in my tracks. I can’t be the only one experiencing this. Surely others will comment more than once in the Challenges.
Just reported essentially the same feedback to Victoria. See if maybe their cages can be rattled.
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Sweet @Moose408 I see you made some improvements!
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@Loraine, clearing cache does not appear to apply. I have tried using different browsers and on multiple devices and the behavior follows from browser to browser and onto my android phone and tablets. I haven’t pulled out the old linux laptop since moving here but I’m almost certain I would see the same there.
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@mezzok and @jumpinjeff
That method allows you to search within the forums but this will not return any teaching by Tony. To my knowledge there is no official way to search for lessons (Challenges). There are, however, unofficial channels:
1. the googlesheet by @Moose408 – in my opinion the best way…thanks Moose!
2. you can call up the lesson from the Web by it’s title. You have to know the exact phrase for that to work. I have described this in detail a number of times. I was able to pull up one of these iterations by searching the forums on the word “title”
https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/topic/view-old-challenges/#post-2153719
