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Hello @xiao-bai, my apologies but even though I am in the forum nearly everyday responding to people I do not know you.
Congrats on your 6th year in the program! I wish you all the best!
Peter
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My wife finally kicked me out of the house! LOL!
Haha! Now you charge admission for her to come watch you play!
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There are actually a number of such threads that go into depth about why it can be counterproductive to throw your energy into learning songs, I didn’t find such a thread in my time available to answer you. I think it was @the-old-coach who gave some of the best replies
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Now that I have another guitar coach, I am also gaining another perspective. What she says about learning songs is “keep doing it! It is so good to learn songs, is so important to learn songs, sometimes songs can be the best teachers if you learn the why and the how behind them. But we don’t want to get in the habit of where we are just learning songs. Be at least figuring out what key they are in, which scales they are using etc. We want to focus on things that make us better for when we do learn songs.”
So don’t let the song learning get in the way of your learning guitar! If you are going to add a new song to your playlist, then use it to advance your understanding of the nature of the instrument. “We are learning to speak the language of the guitar”.
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@CCameron this question is asked about 2-3 times a month on TAC.
The answer is, it isn’t that kind of site. Here are a couple of links to the same question asked in the past:
https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/topic/songs-to-learn/#post-2159693
https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/topic/are-there-actually-songs/
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@msobochangmail-com I know the feeling!
When I started in July of ’24 I went through 30 Days and the 5 Day Routine with relative ease. Not that I was perfect on anything but I had started guitar about 4 months prior and I was able to finish those 2 programs in about 20 days.
When I entered the Daily Challenge I was in for a big surprise….I immediately hit a wall about day 4. But I just stuck with it and did as much of each challenge as I could, sometimes it was just one measure. For many of those early lessons I would do about 5 minutes and then go back and repeat Monday and Tuesday’s lessons. After a while it starts to get better, then the benchmarks come back around and you can go a little further. The skills in many of the challenges repeat over and over. Just hang in there!
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Not sure which lesson you are referring to, but NO! It’s never required to go 1x speed on any lesson in TAC. I am on session 558 and there are still challenges I don’t play at full speed. You don’t have to reach that level or play without mistakes to move forward to the next lesson or next series. Everything you are learning now will be repeated, progress before perfection!
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Have a wonderful time in Mexico, @Skyman911 !
I have a heart for that country, having dated a half Mexican (her Dad was Irish) girl in college and we were engaged before my second year. Our honeymoon was going to be in Puerto Vallarta. Unfortunately, due to my stupidity we split up by the end of my second year in college. I met another lovely Mexican lady who was visiting Ottawa from Puebla while still in college. I even went to visit her in her hometown after graduation, nearly married her also!
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@Mave just know that almost everyone struggles with the daily challenges at the beginning. Heck, some of them are still very challenging after almost 600 sessions, just in a different way than at the beginning because they are layered. The first few times you only do the top layer and then you go deeper in.
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@michealfrancesgmail-com I have been there too. It wasn’t until about a year into TAC but I also have been disappointed by admin. Before that I was impressed by them a half dozen times.
Is there any way we can help you? What exactly are you needing to get on track with. We have many experienced TACers who can provide guidance musically. The admin is there for technical support of the interface and do not advise from a musician’s standpoint. I checked your profile and noticed you have <10 playing sessions. You have hardly scratched the surface of this great program.
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Yup @MattTX_24 ! You are quite right. TAC is about learning how to use your instrument so that when you do go and learn songs, you are much better prepared and will learn them quickly (compared to spending endless hours learning a single song). There are countless other threads on this topic, even one near the top of the forum right now, don’t even have to search for it.
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Yes, you are on to it. I am quite sure Tony does this intentionally. He prefers not to show you one way to play a song, when there are literally hundreds of ways to play any song. His methods show you how to take the song and dress it up – make it your own! When you have learned enough from TAC you will be able to learn as many songs as you want to, but much more quickly than today (if you are like me with limited skills).
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