[petelanger]

Check the Quick Start Guide:

https://tonypolecastro.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/TAC_User_Guide-v5.pdf

[petelanger]

I upgraded to TAC for life recently but still haven’t pulled the handle for Fretboard Wizard. Earlier on I didn’t want the “distraction” of another course. Tony puts FW on sale twice per year. Maybe I’ll pull the trigger eventually.

It does come with a money back guarantee!

[petelanger]

Any technique that works for you, should be fine! Tony is just sharing a variety of different ways but he wants us to use the methods that we get the best results from. He will let you know when there is a good reason not to something, other than that you are not bound by his instruction.

[petelanger]

Lastly, @Moose408 has a file with links to a good many challenges. Maybe he’ll post it for you. I took a copy a while ago but I haven’t kept it up to date.

[petelanger]

Say I want to go to “Run Around The Same Old Town” from the Neil Young Benchmark week:

I need to insert “run-around-the-same-old-town”
into the URL:

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by  petelanger.

[petelanger]

like this:
https://tonypolecastro.com/lessons/run-around-the-same-old-town-2/

[petelanger]

The furthest you can go back through links on the site is 6 weeks, so that is the “Pull Over, Pull Over” week.

Just click on the carrot on the challenge home page and spin backwards

[petelanger]

If you try to go one week further back you will see that nothing happens as you hover over the date, and the challenge cannot be selected.
All is not lost those challenges are also still viewable:
1. if you saved them in your favorites

2. if you know the name you can build a link to any challenge:

Take convenience store; your browser window should have the link showing as:
https://tonypolecastro.com/lessons/convenience-store-2/

to go to a different lesson, just substitute “convenience store” with your desired challenge name.

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Tony's Acoustic Challenge

Tony's Acoustic Challenge

[petelanger]

I’m adding this discussion to my favorites.

Strumming is definitely an acquired skill, doesn’t come naturally. About a year into my journey I’m definitely more comfortable strumming than in the beginning and have learned that when I perceive I don’t sound good, I need to back off and not dig into the strings as much.

There’s a fine line though, during the Old Man benchmark recently I wasn’t getting the hammer-on to make any sound at all and this had been happening for the past 10 months. I discovered that my strum wasn’t even touching the high E string so the hammer was [OF COURSE!] doing nothing!

It takes a while for a player to have an awareness of which strings are being hit and controlling the intensity accordingly. But this is just one reason why all guitarists have a unique sound. The strum is one of many signatures or finger-prints if you like.

[petelanger]

I was actually in the same situation when I started TAC. I went through the 30 Days and the 5 days in 25 days total. I did some skills in the interim.

[petelanger]

Sorry @joesrtrustlogos-org , I didn’t mean to be flippant with you by just pointing to the guide and saying “Read it!”. This question you asked comes up regularly and I ought to have a database of answers so I can just copy and paste. I try to be as interactive as possible on here but at times I might be a bit short due to time constraints.

Try not to get too wrapped up in weekly/monthly schedule thinking. TAC is very cyclical and everything taught comes back around. If you finished the 5 Day mid week you could simply pick up the Daily Challenges where you are and ignore Mon – Wed. Also you could go to the skills area, there are myriads of helpful videos in there to occupy you for months. If you have more time you could go back to Day 1 of the week and play through all the challenges of the week. Most weeks I would recommend against doing this, however, this particular week is very light comparatively speaking. It really just focuses on Vibrato and you could go through the entire week in one sitting.

[petelanger]

Thanks Moose! I see you’ve upgraded it – nice job!

[petelanger]

Thanks @jumpinjeff . I wasn’t quite sure of the frequency.

[petelanger]

I see! Well I do believe I may have attempted to do that before, but it didn’t reset my counter. It would have been a while ago, possibly months ago or more and something could have changed in the counter behavior since then.

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Tony says, we don’t practice but play! Think of it as playing, to play is fun! Practice is work, we don’t work in TAC!