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I think this would be amazing if it were your 5th time through! First? I think you are so close to knocking this out of the park.
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Very nicely done!
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Excellent!
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You are doing well, keep it up! Not sure how long you’ve been playing but if you started any time last year…just wow!
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I noticed that on my initial pre- D chord strum, I wasn’t really striking the low E very intentionally. Going back today and looking for that hammer sound I realized this. By digging into the E a bit more I found that I could get the hammer to ring just a little bit.
As Supertramp would say: “I’m coming along”….small win!
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Good recommendation, I’ll try to fit it in some time – give it whirl.
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Good recommendation, I’ll try to fit it in some time – give it whirl.
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Thanks Ron! This is session 270 for me. I have made a lot of progress since joining TAC, but parts of this song give me fits! First time through I really didn’t get past Wednesday. This was my third time and I have played my way through all the challenges but it’s pretty painful to listen to quite honestly. I recorded the Thursday play through but I’m not wanting to post it. I didn’t record Friday’s session as I was mainly focusing on the middle finger hammer into the D chord which had been mostly inaudible going back to last August. I figured out that I wasn’t strumming the low E properly so there wasn’t much ring to it.
I started my guitar journey last March from scratch, having never played aside from just poking around on my sister’s guitar in my teens with no direction whatsoever. Sounds like we’re in about the same place. I joined TAC on July 3rd last year, a day before turning 65.
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Yes, you figgered correctly with the finger numbering: 1 – 4 translates to index – pinky
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@Skyman911 the only way I can get a clean F chord is by pulling my elbow tight in towards my rib cage. Both you and @Loraine are recommending to position the elbow away from the body. When I attempt to move my elbow away the E and the B strings begin to thud.
I can’t find a position where it works besides tucked tightly to my body. If I try to raise it more, now my fingers are coming in terribly flat and I’m muting all strings, chord modification would be out of the question.
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To get a little more familiar with the site, check out the Quick Start Guide:
https://tonypolecastro.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/TAC_User_Guide-v5.pdf
Section 5 covers the Daily Challenges you were asking about. Daily Challenges is where you go aftere completing 30 Days to Play and 5 Day Routine.
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Every Monday you should be getting an email from TAC about the current week’s challenges.
I would recommend spending a bit time learning how to navigate the TAC website.
But in the mean time here is a link to the Daily Challenges home page: https://tonypolecastro.com/home/
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Here is your goal setting material: https://tonypolecastro.com/audit/
We go over this every 90 days. We just did it recently in the Fab Five Week. During the weekly challenges of that week Tony speaks at the end of each video on how to set goals, but it isn’t necessary to review that I just thought it might be helpful.
If you are interested you can clickon this link to Day 1 of Fab Five, advance the video to near the end and he discusses goal setting each day during this week of daily challenges: https://tonypolecastro.com/lessons/pete-best-2-2/
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Guitar Enjoyment Audit – Tony's Acoustic Challenge
Guitar Enjoyment Audit – Tony's Acoustic Challenge
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I am saying this here to you @sumyra but for the benefit of others who have been here for less than a year and are perhaps on the fence about renewing would also be able to consider Life Time.
The upgrade is not offered on the site, but if you contact support they will refund you the previous year’s fees after you purchase lifetime. I fully understand that it is less interesting to you now that you have in fact already paid $600.
With the Life Time subscription I can be patient to wait for some new content to eventually be made available, as it is I get a lot out of the program, but I’m only 9 months in and not 3 plus years like you.