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Also raising the neck might help. Positioning the hands in relation to the guitar neck is key! Play around with neck level and position of your elbow, you may need to bring it toward your body.
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It did this to me as well when I started. Eventually it went away. But I did get the links in my email to start the daily challenge.
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It varies a lot for me, but I would say I average about 45 – 50 minutes a day, split up into 2 or 3 sessions. Some days I’ll do 1 session and other days I’ll do 5 or 6. I’m not logging my daily sessions so this is just what I think I’ve been doing, roughly 2-3 playing sessions a day. I’ve started another course so I’ll probably be stepping things up this year.
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@DZRShodan don’t worry! As @MattTX_24 said, guitar is hard. I don’t know how old you are but I strongly doubt that the ship has sailed. There are many in this group who are in their 60s and 70s who started recently. I started at 64.
The F-mini is REALLY HARD! It took me over a year before I could occasionally get it to ring nicely on occasion. It still isn’t clear all the time, I’m at about 30% when transitioning into it but improving. You can just leave out the High E string for now, if you don’t strum it you’re still playing an F major chord.
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Hi Tony, if your tuned in could you please give us an update?
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You can zoom in with Ctrl + (punch the plus sign while holding down Control key) in Windows. This works in most browsers.
On macs it’s : Option-Command-Plus Sign (+) to zoom in and Option-Command-Minus Sign (–) to zoom out.
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I’m really still a beginner @JILLC , I’ve been in TAC since July of 2024, but I’m a fairly slow learner
I was referring to keeping up with the chord shapes. There are some challenges where he doesn’t have diagrams on the TABs and yet goes through a large number of chord shapes quite quickly. It’s not a big number of them, single digits throughout the year. But the one I mentioned is the only one where I was so confused that I couldn’t save myself without creating my own chord stamps. Next time we’re in that benchmark I’ll post them again, I still use them to help with the challenges.
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Lol! @jorgemac always pretty much talks over my head. Hoping I’ll catch up to his understanding eventually. This thread sounded interesting but after pulling it up, I’m realizing it’s a lot of work just to try and understand it! Thanks Jorge for keeping me on my toes!
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I think Michael agrees with you.
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It seems up and down to me, generally it might be slightly more responsive than a month ago, put still not consistently good. I work in many other sites that are snappy on my computer, so I see the contrast when I come back to TAC. This also clearly shows that it’s a server side issue.
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I know what you mean, I had to make my own Chord Stamps for the many chords Tony teaches us in the Hotel California challenges. There are a few weeks it gets quite tough to keep up, but typically it’s not an issue.
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@michealfrancesgmail-com I really wish I could help you. It’s an awful feeling to know a brother is lost and can’t find his way. I hate to say it but nobody will be able to give you step by step directions if we don’t know where you are right now and what it is that you are not understanding. Is there terminology that Tony is using that you are confused by? If so, what lesson was it in?
I also didn’t sign up for TAC so I could support it. I am a player just like everyone else here who trying to help you. We all paid for our membership here and are learning to play guitar. I am happy to help but I have to understand how to help. There isn’t a track that we can put you back on. Everyone’s path is a little different based on their background and many other factors and experiences in their lives.
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There isn’t much of a track to fall off of. This program is designed to step in anywhere in the yearly calendar as the challenges repeat on a 12 month cycle and the benchmarks every 4 months. In addition the skills learned are repeated much more frequently. The Challenges are also layered so that a beginner and an expert can be learning from the same challenge just on different levels. This is where TAC shines because all players are on the same material and help each other out in the forums and challenge replies.
We don’t know where you are currently @michealfrancesgmail-com because you haven’t provided any details, I’m assuming since it’s been only 10 sessions and you are “lost”, that you are still in “30 Days to Play” or perhaps in the “5 Day Routine”. Either way if you haven’t entered the Daily Challenges yet and actually tried to do a number of them, you really can’t evaluate this program. It’s like eating the skin off the cherry on top of a wonderful chocolate desert and going “Yuk! I don’t like the skin on this cherry, please take away this awful dish!” You haven’t gotten to the central theme of TAC.
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I don’t print mine because I don’t want a paper war (and also I don’t have a music stand!). Instead I save them to my computer in OneNote, where I can make notes. I also started sending the ones I’m working on to my Kindle Scribe tablet, which has been a revelation because I can have that music (almost unlimited pages on a thin tablet) with me any time I want now. If I printed out the whole year of TAC challenge tabs, I suspect it would be at least a 5 lbs binder.
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@Mave I didn’t start this thread.
@michealfrancesgmail-com asked the original question, I’ve been trying to help him.