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Nice clarity on the recording @albert_d ! With some nice video production elements and stereo sound!
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Haha! Thanks for the laughs @Philb !
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@LeslyT there haven’t been any changes in the rotation for quite a while although it seems Tony may have updated videos here and there over the years, at least I think he has.
He has to tweak things every few years (probably 4 because of the extra day – 52 weeks = 364 days) so that the schedule still runs according to season for those seasonally themed weekly challenges. In 20255 the 5 Day Vibrato Challenge was moved from the end of May to end of April likely so that Mothers Day Week could arrive on time.
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Thanks for that @Berndog ! I’m super encouraged by my TAC friends and now by my newly found jamming group. Now I’m trying to learn songs in more complete way – what it’s all about to relive our youth again when you used to drive around with the cassette player blaring!
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Mark challenge complete after 10-20 minutes of your best shot. I would take a break and try again later. I’m almost 2 years in, I usually revisit at least 3 more times daily. I’m a retiree, not everyone can do this but many can come back again same day and then you have your weekends.
Quickstart Guide: https://tonypolecastro.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/TAC_User_Guide-v5.pdf
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@Moose408 I’m going to build a website with links to the Challenges. I’m using your google sheet as reference and I’ve got a question:
I’m finding the links in your sheet don’t all look the same. They all start out the same with the blabla://tonypolecastro.com/lessons/songname-all-lowercase/ but some of them have songname-all-lowercase-2/ and
others have songname-all-lowercase-2-2/Do you have any idea what those numbers do? I’ve tried out the links without them and they still take you there.
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One of Mr. Sumner’s best! Well done!
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That’s pretty amazing! I love hearing stories about our great song writer musicians. I believe it was James Taylor who really encouraged Carol King to expand her song writing role into a performer and recording artist.
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500 straight days is nothing to sneeze at! Well done @Moose408 ! Plus you just missed being nearly at 1K!
When I was in Vienna November of ’24 I wanted to bring a guitar but the airlines scared me out of it with their baggage policies. I wasn’t going to let it cost me a couple hundred dollars so I didn’t even bring a laptop. I did log in to TAC a couple of times with my phone from the hotel.
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Many of the lessons do have chord diagrams but alas, not all of them do. I would let support know how you feel about this. Easiest way is to just email them:
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@MrKimm , if you aren’t seeing these emails, I suggest checking your spam folder. I started seeing mine long before I finished 30 days to play and that only took me 17 days.
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Awesome that you even have an inkling! Well done! I suppose the naked song title will suffice.
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Hey @Moose408 appreciate your comment! So funny that your first experience jamming was so similar. There’s always a first time and going in you have no idea what the room is like etc. I thought there would tables to put things on or maybe even music stands. But it’s all good this made me look for a solution and I’m just delighted with the stand I got. I’m using it at home all the time – just perfect.
There are 2 excellent players in the group, an Asian guy (Mike) who plays just like John Mayer – his electric guitar playing was mind blowing. The other guy (Ken) was playing acoustic, also very good but not quite as fabulous as Asian. The leader (Geri) is a female also on electric and she plays well but a few tiers below the other guys. I was next to Dave with his electric, he’s somewhere in between. Lastly there was young Asian girl (Lana) who is closer to my skill level but differently skilled. She was doing more fingerstyle and didn’t know a lot of the older tunes we played except for Fast Car which she did rather well.
I had to leave before the session ended because I was expecting my wife back from a road trip. So I didn’t get a chance to chat with people afterward. Mike most certainly should be getting paid to play, can’t wait to talk to him.
Thanks for the tips, Moose! I’ve been practicing with Hotel California, just single strum and singing the lyrics. I want to get them memorized by the next session. I used to know it back in the 70’s. I still know all the lyrics just not necessarily in the right order. I’ll try to do the same with Simple Man.
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No, it’s not mine – credit @Moose408 !
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Thanks @albert_d for your kind encouragement! My wife is a Jacksonville native, her grandparents lived in the area too. I met her while vacationing in Jax back in 1986 and after our engagement in ’87 I moved here from Montreal. But we left the city in ’91, moved to Bern, Switzerland and then on return to the US we went to the Orlando area via Melbourne. We just moved back near Duval County to Fruit Cove (just minutes away from Switzerland FL) about a year ago. Our married lives have been somewhat of a circle and now we’re back home.
My only regret is not starting to play guitar sooner, I don’t understand what stopped me! Oh well, just have to make the best of it and use my time left wisely