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Awesome song and great back story!
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@FrancisR I agree with you.
The notes on the TAB are natural F notes, same with the musical notation. I have no clue why they are sharpened in the Treble Clef. If they were actually sharps you would have to play A9 and B7 instead of A8 and B6, and the notes would have to be raised as well.
I don’t have the FB Wizard course so I am not sure what could be going on.
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@the-old-coach & @Skyman911 I do thank you guys for all the wisdom you have shared here in this thread. I don’t need to tell you guys that I’m not advocating you more advanced players (or anybody for that matter) should play less. What I have been saying is there is a lot of research supporting learning sessions should not be longer than about 20 minutes (more or less) and then you should break. It doesn’t even have to be a totally relaxing break, just doing something else for at least a short while. I have found for me I learn best when I keep my sessions at around 15 minutes, but I do catch myself going much longer because I’m having so much fun or just so wrapped up in trying to play a chord sequence without mistakes.
If you aren’t hurting in any way it’s easy to go long, one ought to be mindful that the benefit diminishes at some point without breaks in playing, especially while doing new stuff. I do think that rehearsing well known things is a bit different and somewhat longer sessions may be useful but not too long. Most of the members on TAC are newer and the material will be newer also.
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@David2458 Hi! A year learning guitar sounds like it’s a long time but it really isn’t. I started late like many here, now I’m 2 years into my journey and on the one hand I really suck as a player. On the other hand I’m light years ahead of where I started. Real growth will occur if you are consistent enough at doing the right things. TAC has the best formula IMO because it’s not complicated: show up and do the challenge daily. Most other online sites have waaaaaay toooooo mannnnnny options and you get bogged down not practicing what needs to get practiced.
You definitely need to REFRAME your perception. Instead of having the focus on what you can’t do, look at all the things you are able to right now. I regularly get blown away by the stuff I’m suddenly capable of, that only a little while ago seemed impossible.
There’s a lot more I could say but much has been said already and I don’t want to make it seem too preachy! Rock on David!
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Sad to hear you are leaving even though I didn’t know you were here. I’m coming up on my 2 year TACiversary and I’m a frequent flyer in the forums. Wish you all the best in your ongoing guitar journey!
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@Pinski announced he “made the tough decision to not renew this year and to move on to pursue new challenges”.
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That’s the way, @David2458 .
Just look for little nuggets you can take away from each Challenge (or lesson if you’re not in the Daily Challenges yet). I remember when I started it was the smallest of things. I could only do one or 2 measures in the time I gave myself. Then Thursday would come around and I couldn’t even get started. I would go back and repeat Monday – Wednesday, try to get a little further than I had. I would keep doing that through the weekend and then start the next week’s challenges. It didn’t take long until I could go through the whole week and at least play everything, if only at .5 speed and with a lot of mistakes. But always try to find some aspect that went well. There almost always is something if you give it your best effort for at least 10 -15 minutes, but you might not see it in the moment. It might come to you as your repeating on Saturday or Sunday that “oh my goodness, that little section there is sounding quite musical”. Or “I can remember the first 5 bars of that lick, I still make mistakes but I know what I should be doing”
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I understand your frustration @Skyman911 for a while I felt abandonment too. Then I realized 2 things:
- Like you said, its “Still the best online course though”
- Tony isn’t just laying back and getting enriched by TAC, he is an accomplished artist. You can look him up. I don’t know what projects he’s involved in right now but I’m sure he’s keeping busy. And he’s raising kids which is the most important job in the world. TAC is running fine without his daily involvement.
And he will step in occasionally in the forum like he did earlier this year. The site is still slow, but I don’t let it get me down. I just do stuff while pages are loading.
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And personally I don’t mind the repeats at all, there’s plenty of sites and youtubers who teach individual songs. They don’t give you what TAC brings, but I’ve had fun with those songs outside of TAC and I continue to play them. Lauren Bateman does an awesome job teaching songs that are freely available, then there’s a handful of others that I follow.
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I don’t think there has been much in the way of fresh content in the past 5 years. Before then the site received a complete overhaul. Some of the members that have been here a lot longer than I might be able to give you more accurate info. @Loraine , @albert_d , @Guitargeezer and @Philb are a few names I can think of who’ve been here 5 -10 years.
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I didn’t mention @jumpinjeff who has been here 11 years now.
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Your position is well founded @BarbaraM
I copied this excerpt from today’s Monday Momentum email:
Science backs up the power of short, daily playing versus longer playing sessions that are infrequent or scattered.
For instance, a 2021 study from the National Institutes of Health found that taking short breaks between playing sessions allows your brain to “replay” and reinforce skills up to 20 times faster than if you cram all your practice into one long session.
Similarly, sports science shows that weightlifters who trained twice daily for 15 minutes improved more quickly than those who did one long session per week-proving that frequency trumps duration.
And when it comes to guitar, a study published in Frontiers in Psychology found that musicians who played for 10 minutes daily made 30% faster progress in skill acquisition compared to those who played infrequently but for longer periods.
So, by keeping your sessions brief and consistent, you’ll build muscle memory, finger dexterity, and rhythmic intuition-all essential for learning and playing “Johnny B. Goode’s” infectious groove.
You know the whole, “how do you eat an elephant… one bite at a time.” adage?
Well, apparently there’s science that backs that up… although I think we all know that if we were to eat an elephant we wouldn’t necessarily need science to tell us to take one bite at a time.
Anyways… all I’m trying to say is give yourself some grace and realize that if you are consistent the progress will come.
With that let’s duckwalk through another wonderful week of fun, focus, and progress.
Cheers!!!
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I’m sorry if you haven’t been helped yet. I see you posted this question on May 14th, unfortunately I never saw it until just now. Have you found your way or do you still need help @gyess ?
If you’ve completed the 30 days the next step is the 5 Day Routine. If you missed that it’s no biggie, okay to start the Challenges. The 5 Day Routine is sort of a warmup for the Dailies. The nice thing about being in the Dailies is that everyone else in TAC (other than those beginning) are all doing the same challenges with you so the dialogue below them (comments) can often be very helpful.
There isn’t a lot to navigate, you just show up every week day and a daily challenge will be there for you. This is probably one of biggest advantages TAC has, you always know what to do: today’s challenge. If you’ve done that and want more you can revisit past challenges, go into the skill courses or just keep doing the daily challenge on repeat. I typically revisit the dailies 3-5 more times daily. On weekends there are no new challenges, you can continue with what you glossed over or missed from the week. It’s always a good time to record yourself, I take most of my videos on the weekend.
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Me too @RiverRooo so glad I grabbed it when I did, I plan to be here until I die!
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Lot’s of us have been here for several years, but we had the lifetime membership option which isn’t offered anymore.