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Sounds like you are striving for perfection. You want to lose that approach to the challenges ASAP, because it will completely steal your joy and ultimately cause you to fall away from consistently playing.
The Daily Challenges are quite a step up from 30 Days to Play and even the 5 Day Routine, and getting them completely under your fingers is going to take months and years. Most importantly the skills in all the challenges are repeated over and over, so what you don’t pick up in one challenge might come naturally to you in another!
Try to enjoy the ride! Do what you can in each challenge without worrying about completing it! Try to find something that you learned or something that went better than before or maybe better than you expected. Those are WINS, share your wins all the time! Mark complete and move on!
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ME: There have been a very large number of comments in the challenge threads regarding the missing PIP. Personally I don’t miss it but many members do.
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Holy cow! That is darn near perfect! Very nicely done!
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Beautiful Marty! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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My notes from the “Ain’t No Sunshine” Benchmark Week:
Monday “Cloudy Day”:
Love this! I’ve been wanting to understand percussive playing because this adds so much to your sound. I spent a little extra time today to get this under my fingers. I don’t have it fully down but I got much further along than I expected when Tony first played through! WIN!
I learned that I am muting alternately with the picking hand and the fretting hand:
the AND of the 2 beat (G str X) is muted by lifting up on the fretting hand. Then push down again on the 3 beat as the A str sounds followed by DGB pluck. *
The last 4 measures are the hardest to get the timing down for. Struggling with the two 16th note muted plucks(muted by fretting hand’s pinky while holding the Am chord which is needed for the very next 8th note). I can actually do it isolated if I start on the 2nd beat of the last measure. Posted a Benchmark Video in the forum on this.
I know,*the mute is actually done with the pinky of the fretting hand. Tony doesn’t mention this but you clearly see he’s doing it.
Tuesday “Gone Too Long”:
I can (sort-of) do this thing but I’m still kind of operating the guitar (trying to press the right buttons at the right time) and not playing music through the guitar. Yes, I realize it’s decidedly too soon, less than 9 months since I first had the thought that I would finally begin to learn guitar. But I want so badly to feel the music and be able to express it.
Even though I know the note progression (of the first 2 bars) I am not able to consistently play it without error. And it’s hard to remember the entire riff, tend to lose it by the 6th or 7th measure and that’s because I’m not feeling it! I am just rote learning the positions and trying to rattle them off. Typically I’ll leave out a note or finger the wrong string. The open strings pose a bit of a problem too: I feel I need to mute them before playing the next note, while a fretted note automatically stops ringing once you lift off the fret. If I don’t mute then it seems like an odd sound, so this adds another thing to think about while playing the riff.
Wednesday “I know, I know, I know”:
Amazingly it seemed I did better with these scales. Was able to remember the top 3 (33 notes) in about 20 minutes or so, whereas I could not get the first 7 notes right in that amount of time. I practiced it for hours and still was making mistakes even today as I go back I will flub those first 7 notes somewhere and the second line of the TAB is still very elusive.Thursday “Wither Away”:
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Friday “Every Time She Goes Away”:
I’m not really able to play these because the chords are changing too rapidly.
Have to work on the Chord Progression, Am, Em (for one beat), G (for one beat), then back to Am.
So for the remainder of the week I’m just practicing the first 3 challenges of the week.-
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This is one that really helped me a lot:
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After posting my Benchmark videos, which were mainly just recording as I went through the lesson challenge, I am not feeling self conscious about the recordings being out there. I wanted to rehearse and get to some more representable level but looking back it doesn’t matter in the least. This is going to be so freeing for the future benchmarks because I’ve realized that it doesn’t matter one iota! As Tony explains, it isn’t a competition with others. Where you are is where you are and if you keep showing up to do your daily challenges, there will be improvement. Recording it will make it easier to detect slight improvements that you don’t notice because they are small from day to day.
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I like this as well, Paul! You can feel the stretch right off the bat going for the low E but it’s also very quick to run through so I’m more likely to do it.
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Ooh! Sneaky! I like it!
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Had to watch it again, this song brings back so many memories of my youth and at the same time it’s a musical and lyrical masterpiece! Pink Floyd in their peak creative phase while reminiscing about the loss of former leader Syd Barrett.
I was singing along with you and Floyd!
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You’re welcome, glad you found it useful. In the beginning when I was just starting out this routine helped me so much when I couldn’t play certain chords cleanly. For example the C, G and B7.
But I discovered I was messing up my E chord, which is actually a simple shape that I thought I had fully learned. Not so! The G string was getting muted and I hadn’t noticed it at first since you’re strumming all 6 strings. But if you transition back and forth from E to E- and don’t hear a difference, that’s a problem.
I would do this exercise, usually 20 reps for each pairing of fingers, and then come back and suddenly I could make the shapes so much better and play with less “thud”.
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Appreciate your encouragement!
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I’m trying to get my sister to start playing again so we can share our experiences. She was so good at 15, was playing so many songs at the time. She never used a pick it was all finger picking or strumming with the fingers. She said she gave it up because when our parents sent her to boarding school in England the school wanted her to learn music theory and she just hated it then.
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I will be upgrading my membership to lifetime. For the cost of 3 or 4 private lessons, I get 5 challenges a week and dozens of other skill building videos along with the input and encouragement of fellow TAC members!
There is still is a lot for me to learn here, even if Tony never adds one iota to the content. But I see that he is posting new videos. He just added one to the Benchmark Forum a couple of days ago. TAC isn’t my only source of learning, but it is my main one.