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@SteveinCT to answer your question in short: no, this isn’t the site that will do these things for your guitar journey.

The long answer is that TAC builds a practice routine. Put your 10 minutes a day in. Have fun with it. But that’s the basic premise and the main extent of its reach. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday lessons somewhat work together to help you build your scale and lick library and work on improv, but as you said, with no real context, especially for a beginner. You can test your improvement in 10 months when the same lessons come around again, and test them even further when they come around yet again. Friday will give you a glimpse into theory with a chord progression.

The skills lessons give you a basic introduction into some skills, but there is nothing else offered to extend those skills beyond those classes. There are myths and whispered rumors of new content to be made, but no timeline given. Should said mysterious content ever arrive, I have no doubt it will follow the current architecture and not connect the dots in the way you are hoping.

The song vault is no more as you know. I know of no one that asked for it to be discontinued. I don’t think members asked for its discontinuation, but what do I know? The only requests I ever saw made were for new songs to be added. It was definitely beneficial for others in putting the skills learned together.

The community that now exists is not the community that was advertised. That community was dismantled. What has been repackaged and repurposed to look like a community is now just a place to consolidate free marketing material. And I say this being one that is prominently featured in one or two of the ads. I wish that weren’t the case.

Further, the community emails will soon no longer be offered. Instead you can provide extra views to a monetized YouTube channel by watching Acoustic Tuesday to possibly get the content that would have been provided in the community emails.

Fretboard Wizard is good at providing basic theory. It’s with that purchase that you’ll find the Alternate Tunings course. But that’s a separate cost.

To sum TAC up: here’s a few licks, scales, warmups, and skills…now you go figure out how to put it all together.

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Thank you @cadgirl 😀

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Much appreciated, Charlie. Looking forward to hearing from you.

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Thank you, sir.

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Thanks Dan! I appreciate your kind words as well 😉

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Thanks Albert. So many great songs to play while Travis picking.

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Much appreciated @niels. This guitar is a wonder.

[rickyk76]

@jumpinjeff with your son Jonah working at TAC, you’ll have more inside knowledge about whether the YouTube channel is monetized or not. However, I’ve also seen the Acoustic Life/Acoustic Tuesday merch shelf on the videos which is another way of monetizing YouTube. You can see all the different ways how YouTube is monetized here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72857?hl=en. If you do further searches, you’ll see that YouTube ads are also randomized, so not even every video of monetized content contains ads. If you definitively know whether it is or not, let us know. Not that it’s the main point.

However, the transfer of the TAC weekly emails, a private communication that was previously part of the paid service has now been transferred to a public platform in Acoustic Tuesday, yet another dilution of what used to be part of TAC.

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I’m in complete agreement. I know I wasn’t asked either.

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If you remember, @SoCal_Ian, Levi stated that the active forum members (in the old forum) only represented about 2% of all active TAC membership, so the forums themselves are a minor consideration in all of this. Maybe a survey was done for those who rarely or never used the forums, which would be the silent majority. Maybe they strictly used their customer service data to paint the picture of where TAC and its forums should go. Who knows? One thing is apparent: other than creating marketing content for TAC, the forums hold no priority for the powers that be. Not sure what “community” they’re currently advertising, but it’s not this one.

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@jumpinjeff as you can see, it’s monetized by ads. Whenever you see the merch banner under the videos, that’s also a form of YouTube monetization. And there’s a way to monetize from Premium YouTube subscribers. It’s a simple option to turn on and it will pay you if any YT subscribers watch your videos. I’m surprised you’ve never seen an ad. There’s at least one at the beginning of every AT.

@cadgirl It’s always about money.

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Thanks @Alfun I have to say that Thompson makes great guitars. I traded my Thompson dreadnaught for this and that larger guitar had so much amazing sound in it too.

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I play it often. It’s just a fun short piece. Thanks @BethL !

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I appreciate it @Philb