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@Guitlesson it can happen that you drift into a rut, you’re not so enthused because you aren’t seeing enough progress. I think that’s the place I was in, especially in the improv realm. In fact with all the time I spent playing last week, improv was by far the smallest portion. I barely played through the scales. But I gave the other 4 challenges my all and then some. This week I need to go long on Wednesday and really take the next step in improvisation since it’s been one of my biggest thorns on my side.
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Congrats on your consistency! That is the key to progress!
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Way to introduce yourself with a bang! Wow! With a Pat Benatar classic! Awesome voice, your fingers seem very adequate to me…..I was marveling at the shapes you were making cuz I know my fingers can’t do that! Welcome to TAC!
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@BarbaraM if you have a smartphone and a YouTube(=Google) account, your phone will handle most of the techy stuff for you. Record yourself with the phone and then you hit share and select YouTube under the sharing options.
You need to be logged into Google (or Gmail account) for this to work. If you don’t have a Youtube (Google) account then you’ll need create one to be able save videos up there.
After the video is uploaded you can find the link for it and you copy and paste that link into your TAC forum post. You can drag and drop it too I believe, that is where the term “drop” comes from.
If all that is too complicated there is an easier way, you start by launching the YouTube app on the phone. Have the account and channel selected and then hit the plus sign at the bottom of your screen to launch video recording straight up to YouTube.
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@JoeT and @DPC71 I approached Support about the Vidami pedal as well. I never bought one because I am learning primarily on TAC. I don’t really want to download and catalog all the play videos. I wonder why the TAC platform tends to be so non-user friendly in a lot of ways and they are not open to changing it unless a massive amount of people request it.
I know somebody posted in the Forum about a pedal that you can use with pdf files, but I wanted to have something that would control video playback as well and it had to work with TAC since I’m learning here.
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You are doing well! I just wanted to point out that starting at the 52 second mark you start playing some things that aren’t on the TAB or in the PLAY video: it sounds like you are hitting the D string (which is fretting an E note) before you do the 3 string (DGB) pluck. I think you are trying to add the percussive plucks.
These are quite tricky and I was messing them up my first few times through this challenge. Try isolating just those few notes and looping through, that should help you get the technique down!
Always divide and conquer! When the whole TAB is giving you trouble, then break it apart into chunks and play just a few notes at a time!
Thanks for posting, keep it up!
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I really like it! The price was great and it’s actually cheaper now ($159) than when I bought it. Not sure how much longer with the Tariffs and now gobs of Chinese containers dropping into the sea out in Long Beach! The size is just perfect. I’m not small but hanging over a full size guitar is not as enjoyable as this nice midsize. The body is only 3 1/2” instead of 5″ thick which is a huge difference. And, even though it’s shorter, it only has 3 fewer frets than my full size. The cutout easily compensates for that by making frets 15 – 17 much easier to reach.
It’s a Donner Rising G1, with a mahogany body with a carbon top. I’m still using the factory strings and I have another set that came with it. The tone is really pleasant to me. I do have a small issue with it, that I have to iron out. There’s 13th fret is slightly low near the high E and B strings. I have to press the E extra hard to make sure it’s playing E and not F. But this affects very little of what you would normally play and I’ll figure out how to fix it eventually.
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Support did respond about the stats:
Our IT Team just completed a few changes and upgrades to the site. One of these items was the streaks issue. It’s finally addressed but needs to settle out in the system. If you don’t mind, give it a few days to do this. We thank you for your patience in the meantime.
Victoria
Tony’s Acoustic Challenge
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Thanks for your feedback. I played it a half dozen times with just a few hiccups, but turn the camera on and it becomes a performance and I fingers don’t know what to do. LOL!
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Most beginner players believe they have some kind of physical disadvantage. This is because playing guitar is very hard to do. But the record is chock full of players who have overcome tremendous physical limitations to become excellent musicians:
Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath), Mark Goffeney (played with his feet) just to name a few.
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Caught up is when you have spent at least 10 earnest minutes on the challenge of the day. Remember, you are not behind! This is your guitar journey, stop comparing yourself with others!
If you can’t get anywhere at all with the daily challenge (it’s totally over your head – and I’ve been there) then back up and play one of the previous challenges, maybe take Monday’s or Tuesday’s a little further or you can go to a previous week. Just do something a little better than the previous time. Make that your little WIN! I’ve called them nuggets in the past. If you look closely you can find nuggets all over the place, it’s a gold rush around here (Neil Young will make an appearance soon enough-lol!) -
If you get stuck somewhere, let me know! I’m here to help.
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I believe you may be overthinking the process a little. Tony will sometimes mention a song or songs in his introduction to the challenge and he may invite the audience to think of some songs where they have noticed the same feature he is describing. This doesn’t imply some magical association of each song in the challenge rotation.
What he teaches us day in and day out is to hone your skill the 5 aspects of guitar playing: Technique, Licks, Improv, Rhythm and Chord Progression. Once you have grown sufficiently in these areas it will be much easier for you to learn any song that you want to learn because you have learned the core abilities required.
The teaching isn’t so much song specific, although frequently the lessons are based on certain songs, the goal is for you to grasp how to apply what is being taught to other songs.
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@JoeT exactly! I would buy the Vidami in a heartbeat if it worked on the TAC website. I’m not willing to download, store and manage all the videos.
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Yes, I spoke about the “?” on the far left bottom. If you expand the menu it says “Support”. It still doesn’t get you to the chat support. That used be on bottom right (a yellowy orange square).