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I too am trying to get a handle on reading the TABs. They give you the fret number but not necessarily the finger. In the beginning of my TAC journey I would print out the TAB and then watch the video carefully and write the finger number (1-4) on each note.
After a while I found this was not totally necessary since I am not trying to learn the whole challenge anymore, I only go as far as I feel like it and it’s fun for me. That I can do in my head. I watch Tony explain the challenge and then go into the PLAY mode. Often times it’s easier to pick up the method from the latter. Not always though because he will at times say to employ any vocalization you want (strum, cross pick, finger pick, etc) but the PLAY video will only have one of those.My issue is I can’t look at the TAB while I’m playing. I still have to look at my hands at this stage in my journey, although that is changing and I can see that in time I will be able to look at the TAB while playing. For now I need to look and subsequently play.
Now the notes are pretty much superfluous for me. I understand how to read them but yeah, can’t translate those to the fretboard. Years ago I played in a bell choir and we followed along by reading the notes.
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I think you only get credited for one session per day and not sure how long you have to be logged in or what has to happen. I know I have lost streaks even though I was logged in and doing challenges, just failed to click on whatever to trigger the counter.
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Wow, so impressed with your playing! And for me, not just impressive but also encouraging, thanks for posting!
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Helpful advice, guys! Thanks! Just wanting to make sure I was understanding the structure and purpose of the lessons day by day. I think I was close but now I grasp it even better.
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Agree Albert! Them’s some high notes I’ll never reach! Nicely done, Kevin!
Big fan of those old Bread songs:
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Well done Moose! I think it’s quite good already but do please post again if you are going to continue working on it!
Great Scott, Gerry Rafferty released some of the all time most memorable songs: “Baker Street” is still one of favs along with this one with Steelers Wheel and “Get It Right Next Time”! It’s sad that he led a very troubled life and died much too young at 63! -
Welcome to TAC, I’m fairly new also having joined July 3rd, 1 day before may 65th birthday. I’ve never had a private lesson but I tried 2 other online programs before and while they weren’t worthless, they weren’t sustainable because I lost interest and didn’t play consistently. The key is not to get lost on perfection, keep going.
I think students (and many teachers) tend to have you work a skill to death. After weeks of practice you may have learned that one skill but you’re still not a guitar player and you begin losing your joy in playing.
Don’t be discouraged if you can’t do everything that is presented in the challenges. This is normal and you will do better the next time it comes around.
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Sounds like you are striving for perfection. You want to lose that approach to the challenges ASAP, because it will completely steal your joy and ultimately cause you to fall away from consistently playing.
The Daily Challenges are quite a step up from 30 Days to Play and even the 5 Day Routine, and getting them completely under your fingers is going to take months and years. Most importantly the skills in all the challenges are repeated over and over, so what you don’t pick up in one challenge might come naturally to you in another!
Try to enjoy the ride! Do what you can in each challenge without worrying about completing it! Try to find something that you learned or something that went better than before or maybe better than you expected. Those are WINS, share your wins all the time! Mark complete and move on!
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ME: There have been a very large number of comments in the challenge threads regarding the missing PIP. Personally I don’t miss it but many members do.
Victoria (TAC): Hi. Thanks for reaching out to TAC Support! We are aware of an issue with this and have our IT Team on it. It should
be resolved soon.
We are happy to have you with us in the TAC Community!
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@jumpinjeff I’m curious about your comment in another thread that learning songs may have impeded your progress because I seem to have heard others mention this also. We all want to be able to play songs, that’s got to be on the top of everyone’s list. What songs and the level of proficiency certainly will vary from person to person. I have a pretty long list of songs I want to be to play and early on I found myself trying to learn a few of them but I’ve since backed off and I’m not entirely sure why.
But I also find that not focusing on learning songs and not worrying about being able to play the entire Daily Challenge has upped my enjoyment of TAC in a big way.
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Thanks so much, that is great answer and I’m quite sure it means a lot more than I understand right now!
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After posting my Benchmark videos, which were mainly just recording as I went through the lesson challenge, I am not feeling self conscious about the recordings being out there. I wanted to rehearse and get to some more representable level but looking back it doesn’t matter in the least. This is going to be so freeing for the future benchmarks because I’ve realized that it doesn’t matter one iota! As Tony explains, it isn’t a competition with others. Where you are is where you are and if you keep showing up to do your daily challenges, there will be improvement. Recording it will make it easier to detect slight improvements that you don’t notice because they are small from day to day.
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I like this as well, Paul! You can feel the stretch right off the bat going for the low E but it’s also very quick to run through so I’m more likely to do it.
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Ooh! Sneaky! I like it!