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It’s a shame that so many players just give up, or appear to anyway by no longer participating in TAC. @BDUmedic seems to be another member gone inactive, after numerous TAC members tried to pour into him.
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Touching performance!
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Look at the Quick Start Guide on the Challenges home page. This is your road map that I think @Loraine is talking about.
I would suggest to do the current daily challenges and not try to (pick up where you left off). There isn’t a sequence in the yearly calendar, everything comes back around. Also the comments under the daily challenges are both fun and often useful and you would be partially missing out on these, because the comments would be dated instead of same day or hour.
Also there is no need to complete all challenges in a given week or even all measures of a daily challenge. It’s your path and just do enough that you are challenged for as long as it is fun. Next time you will most likely be able to do more.
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Or this might be even more helpful. I am seriously weighing this because I spend so much time reaching for my mouse while playing back videos. Just not 100% sure it will work with TAC videos. They say it works on YouTube + 50 other platforms.
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You’re having fun, that’s the main thing!
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Hope you don’t have to miss the entire month, that can play havoc with your habits. But it’s a non issue to miss a week or 2, just go to the next challenge when you return!
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Nice!!!
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What @gibsonjlpacbell-net says. To report a tech issue click to the TAC Home page and at bottom right there is a square button to initiate a chat. Usually Victoria replies within minutes.
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@lecassandra congrats on your consistency!
FYI: TAC tracks your activity on the home page (sort of!). If you click on a new daily challenge, or click to the home page it will definitely register. I’ve lost some streaks (as recorded by TAC) because I must have failed to click on one of these. Of course I know that I played every day (as you do, you’re not sure if it’s 13 or 14 in a row).
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@Loraine when you say push down on your elbow, what does this really mean? I can lower my shoulders as much as possible but once it’s all the down, how much more pushing is possible? Now I can raise the guitar neck also so the elbow continues to descend relative to my fretting hand.
What I am finding is that I literally am pushing the left elbow into my ribs in order to be able to lay my index finder on it’s side (the bony part, not the fleshy part). Doing this there is a limit to how far you can lay down #1 because you start to have muting problems with #2 and #3 because now you are fretting on the side of those fingers (no longer with the tips).
There always seems to be a trade off between getting good, clean sound from the notes F (#1), C (#1), A (#2) and F (#3).
I hope all this isn’t confusing you @stpotter329gmail-com .
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I assume you are talking about the F-mini where you barre the high E and B strings. You are not alone my friend, this chord is extremely difficult to play. I attempt regularly to play it but only rarely do all strings ring cleanly. It comes down to a balancing act for me, getting the pressure on the 2 lowest strings just right while not muting any other strings at the same time.
For the challenges I will often cheat and focus on fretting the B and not worry about the high E at all while avoiding it while strumming it.
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@albert_d I’m wondering what those obstacles (overhead) you have in recording songs truly are?
Here is the setup that I have that has made it much simpler for me: I use an old phone rather than than the one I actually have in service with my cell provider. It’s a Google Pixel so it has a decent camera even though it’s about 5 years old.
I can just keep that phone in my desk, I’ve got a tripod standing next to me as well where I can just pop it in when I want to record myself. I have it connected to my home network and logged into my google account. I’ve set up google photos to automatically upload all my photos and videos so that I can access them from any device. I can transfer the video to YouTube directly from the old phone immediately after recording. But also if I wait a bit everything will sync and I can make that transfer from my laptop.
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@Shawnee56 hope you are still steadfast in your journey!
Let us know how you’re doing!
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@sumyra are you aware that you can purchase a liftetime subscription ($597), and the office will immediately refund your last annual subscription fee ($199). I just did this last week, and was refunded immediately. It kind of makes the decision very easy! Effectively you upgrade to Life at the cost of 2 years.
Even without new content, what is on here is worth it! I still am learning tons each time through the benchmark weeks as well as all the other weeks. Would I like new stuff? Sure I would, but it doesn’t matter that much. The substance is such that I can learn any song once my skills are up to snuff! Tony isn’t really teaching you how to play a song each week. He is really teaching you how to play dozens (even hundreds) of songs!
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Me too! Fender says that 90% of beginner guitar players give up within a year. I would hope that the TAC statistics are more favorable, but who knows?
If you search members in your location you will typically find a small number of active (last few days or weeks, months?) and then a bunch more that haven’t been active in quite a while. I don’t know if members who don’t renew, stay in the database or not. We don’t know if a member has a quarterly or annual subscription. I suspect, since there are 68,327 members, that IT isn’t purging accounts from the list