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Love Bread! My fav song by them is “Aubrey”. Then “Guitar Man”. This song is probably the #3
I do notice some improvement in your vocals Loraine! Good to see!
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I too have lost a number of streaks for unknown reasons. And it’s true that it’s a small thing, but keeping the streak alive is a tiny motivator too so I understand when a member is thrown a little when it vanishes.
I’ve made a point of clicking on the Acoustic Challenge logo at least once a day; this takes you to the home page where you can verify your session count and streaks.
Keep on TACin’!
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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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Thanks for letting me know, @BarbaraM ! It’s gonna take a big number of complaints, apparently. I imagine they have a per incident contract with their IT company. That can cost a lot of money to engage Support so it has to be worth it.
I gather from my time perusing over this site that lots of people post in the Challenges but rarely or never in the forums. That’s why I have been writing about the issue there. I think people might not be aware this is happening because probably a large percentage of people don’t post more than once a day. Then I suspect others don’t notice the message never posted
I have a functional workaround, probably adds 10-20 seconds to every comment after the first of the day. It’s not ideal, I won’t comment as much as I would with no barriers. I would like to see it corrected but I suspect that it won’t until the site gets the next major overhaul.
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Fun idea! I might have to start learning how to play it and then move on to the Beatles “Birthday” song.
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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