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Thanks for the replies!

Moose, I am trying to use the TABs (by printing them out) but I am still not real solid in reading them and definitely can’t read them while I’m playing yet, neither printed nor on screen. I really need the video (and preferably at full screen) to be able to see and do. But I’ll take your advice and spend some time to learn to read tabs better. It’s a language and needs to be practiced all by itself.

JumpinJeff, your viewpoint is helpful!

I’m definitely progressing and can do so much more than when I started not even a month ago (July 3rd). I just know that if I had only given it 10 minutes each day, I definitely wouldn’t be at this point (ready to start the daily challenges next Monday).

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I’m only 32 days in but I’m so much better than 32 days ago! That’s all I’m looking at and it keeps me going. I see that things I couldn’t do yesterday are almost working today, still rough but a little better than yesterday. I try to focus on doing one element of the skill a little bit better each time. Sometimes it takes 10 tries before there is improvement, sometimes more but other times less!

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Tony Melendez – Missing both arms, plays with his feet:

Tony Melendez Never Be The Same (youtube.com)

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Wow!

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Thanks for so many of you members for your thoughts here in response to Joseph’s frustrations. I’m wrapping up week 3 of 30 Days, so glad I discovered this thread here. So many useful tips and encouragement that I’m sure I will need later. Right now I’m feeling mildly pleased with my progress, but judging by peoples remarks, it’s about to get way, way more challenging.

Have also been thinking about the upgrade to lifetime so thanks for those comments also. I really think Tony should offer that after a few weeks and not during the sign up/purchase process.

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I have been having thiis problem too. I’m running Windows 11 on a Dell laptop with Core I7. It appears to be hardware dependent.

I opened a support ticket. Was asked to try other browsers and got the same effect in multiple browsers (DuckDuckGo, Chrome, Edge). Then tried other devices and the videos all played fine on every other device of mine: (Phone – Samsung and Google, Tablet – Lenovo, all of these are Android devices; also works perfectly on my Linux Mint laptop. So I do TAC on my Linux box now, occasionally I’ll run it on my Win 11 again and it does work intermittently, if I’m switching from lesson to lesson and just launch a single vid it seems to work typically.

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Beautiful! I grew up in Montreal so I’m rather partial to Leonard Cohen. Good job on this song!

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Nice! I’m not a dead head so don’t know the song but your playing and voice sound great! I am looking forward to posting my own recordings, not there yet but hopefully within the next 60 days I’ll be confident enough to give it a shot.

P.S.: I’m a Genesis fan so the title “Ripple” caught my eye. On the album “Trick of a Tail”(first one sans Peter Gabriel), “Ripples” is one of my favorite tracks.

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Nice going, looks like a very hard bar chord or are you doing one of the other shapes?

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Thanks for this discussion, I just had an epiphany from it!

No more thud! – Small Wins – Tony’s Acoustic Challenge (tonypolecastro.com)

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No more thud! - Small Wins - Tony's Acoustic Challenge

No more thud! - Small Wins - Tony's Acoustic Challenge

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Lorraine, thanks for your reply! Yes I play exclusively on electric. When I decided to start learning guitar, I also decided I wanted to learn electric.

Reaching across from 5th to 7th fret is already a challenge. Then having to move that configuration up and down and sideways makes it that much harder. But I am starting to get the hang of it. Thanks for the tips!

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Was wondering the same thing? I gathered the 3 and 1 second quick draws are coming later since I’ve been hearing the material comes around and again and again.

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Are any of you playing electric? I can’t be the only one…

I’m not investing yet, I found an inexpensive Strat clone online that had excellent reviews and chose that for my instrument. I love rock music and while rock often has acoustic elements, I ultimately want to play electric so why not learn on one?

I plan to reward myself with a more formidable specimen once I’ve completed 360 days.