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Thank you all for the thoughtful responses!!!

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Hey Barclay and welcome!

I’m about 60 days in and I’m with you! Once your done with the 30 days to play and the 5 day guitar routine you’re ready for the daily challenges.

I personally would start with a Monday challenge which will be the beginnings of the pieces of a song for the week. I have never picked up a guitar until August of 2025, so take my advice with a grain of salt except that the process works.

For me the daily challenges are pretty hard, but that’s OK. Spend your requisite 10 minutes or more if your feeling up to it, then move on. Mark that lesson complete so you have accomplished something and move on. I felt in the beginning like I had to master that days lesson before I could move on; heck no! Mark it done and go about your day. You mentioned not being able to find the previous lesson… mark it as a favorite with the heart icon on the video and it will always be in your favorites so you can go back to it!

Again, don’t get hung up with having to feel like you’ve mastered it! Every month or so a song will come back around as a benchmark song and you can then see how you’ve progressed.

I’ll leave you with this. in August, I didn’t even know how to hold a pick. Since then, I have learned about all the chords you will need to play any song as a rhythm guitar, I have learned some blues licks (my favorite) and can read tablature better than my son who has been playing guitar for 3 years. He wishes he had taken lessons like this instead of just learning to play by ear.

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Thanks Skyman! I did make a point to at least pick her up and play a few songs with chords. 😉

Now you’re making me feel better.

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THats awesome Kevin! Biggest thing that the group has taught me here… Don’t get hung up on perfection! It will happen. Just commit to the 4 weeks and 10-minutes a day. I NEVER in my life imagined I would be playing the guitar!

I’m on Friday of week 3, and I used today to kind of do whatever I wanted as long as I played, and I played “I Believe in You” by Don William’s almost flawlessly. I struggled last week and the first week with the G.

Keep at it and it will all come together! Your ahead of me thinking about the chord progressions and alternative fingerings!

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Thanks ya Pete, uplifting as usual my friend!

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Now that I know the D-Chord… add the first part of Free Falling by Tom Petty!!! Man alive. I see how TAC builds now!

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Bless ya heart and thank you!!! That truly was the motivation I needed.