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@Bob_E Fantastic win on a challenging lesson
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Awesome sauce! Congratulations on your NGD, and it looks like a great guitar. Can’t wait to hear it.
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WOOHOO!! YAY!! CONGRATULATIONS on completing your 100 day challenge @Michelle-PSL . You have come so far and done amazingly well, and your skills have grown exponentially. Be very proud of yourself for accomplishing this.
Wonderful last performance, and I’m sure you’ll continue to amaze us!
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Welcome to TAC @Barry2021 – Fretboard Wizard is not included with the regular subscription to TAC. It is a separate cost, but if you purchased it then you should have access to it. If that is the case, then I would contact TAC support. If you didn’t purchase it at the time of joining, then the course opens up twice a year (typically Spring and Fall). An announcement should be made in the near future of open enrollment, and then if you want it you would pay at that time. I highly recommend it.
You should have access to all the remaining skills courses. Some may require that you complete ‘pre-course’ lessons or an introduction.
Hope this answers your questions. If not, please let us know.
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Hi @Alisa I wonder if you stretched the strings multiple times after changing them. Stretching them will change the tuning, but you should do it a few times after changing strings, and then retune after each one. I would then put the guitar in its case for a day and then restretch and tune again. Hopefully this would solve the problem.
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@Marquita Ya made me laugh!! I still have difficulty with the patting my head while rubbing my tummy. I ended up using a capo on the 5th fret to do todays lesson, and that was a game changer. Made it so much easier, because my hands are smaller.
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Hi @PawT and welcome to TAC. Yes, there are server issues with slowness. Thisd is a new platform that they just switched to in the past couple of months, and the slowness is an issue they’ve been working on. I’m not sure when they’ll have the matter resolved, but if it continues, you can always contact support.
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Happy 1st TACiversary @Tom000-18 and it sounds like you’ve come far in a short amount of time. I look forward to hearing your song once written. There is magic in the acoustic that’s for sure. Very inspirational story.
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That’s a great win and always a great feeling when something comes a little more easily. Keep up the great work!
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What a very cool win @Cadgirl . Family are the most challenging and important audience, and when they finally acknowledge our progress it is like being on cloud nine. Keep up the great work!!
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@jdnelson It’s good to see you back, and I’m glad you’re giving it another go. Just take your time and have some fun with it. If you’re really interested in fingerpicking, just focus on that for a while and find some easy songs that you can practice on. Look forward to seeing you in the forums more. Keep on plucking away!
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Happy 1st TACiversary @Greg_F_Lee — I love reading everyone’s starts, stops, hiccups, and hurdles.
It sounds to me as if you and I suffer from the same type of ADD and jump around and take on way too much at one time and never finish what we’ve started. It became overwhelming to me, and I decided to take a step back and focus on the daily challenge and typically one other project or course. I still find myself jumping around and wanting to do it all, and I have to literally stop, take a step back and then refocus on my original goal.
I found that doing the 90 day goal (or shorter if that helps) really helped me focus on what to do. Try not to fill it with too many things. It could be that you’ll complete a minimum of 10 minutes per day on the daily lesson; 15-20 minutes warmups; maybe 10-15 minutes on a lesson from a course I’m taking. Then I’ll practice that daily for a bit, and then I’ll bite a small piece off again and practice that for a while. On the weekends, I let myself go hog wild and do anything I want. That might be songs I’m working on, other sites I frequent on the internet for songs or other courses. There is sooooo much to do and so little time, so I decided I just had to break it all down to 10-20 minute mini bursts throughout the day.
Hang in there, and it will fall into place. Just remember that if you realize you’re not completing things or don’t have enough time for your courses, it’s okay to reconvene and change your plans.
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@SteveinCT The lessons rotate about every 8 months, and occasionally he’ll use the same lesson more than once (typically speed challenges or scales) if it applies to the weeks lessons. Weeks alternate between fingerpicking and flatpicking. Assuming there were no duplications of lessons that would be approximately 170 taped daily lessons during the 8 month period. He also has all the taped lessons within courses (several lessons to each course), all the Fretboard Wizard lessons.
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Hi @SteveinCT I’m guessing that the site was upated about 2 months ago.
The overall look of the site changed, and the forums are different. I personally felt the forums were much more user friendly and easier to read new comments and replies and know which messages you had already read and responded to. There was a very active community in the forums on the old site and members were very responsive to questions and comments. There was a large ‘gear’ forum that was very popular. The skills courses are much easier to access in the new site. The old site was confusing for newcomers to navigate to certain courses. The old site had a member map and jam clubs (local groups of people with similar interests) that were very popular. Prior to COVID many people got together locally. Now the member section has a search function by area that you can search for others from your local area, and you can reach out to individuals via messaging. The old site was much faster than the current site. TAC is aware of the slowness of this site and are working with IT folks to try and speed it up. I think the lag has to do with the new site using a spooling technique that causes a delay while everything spools and loads. There was a calendar on the old site that allowed others to schedule things and the entire community could see what was scheduled and where. There was a song vault, that was a separate cost, that had fingerpicking and flatpicking songs at different skill levels that you could learn. I’ll have to think about other similarities and differences, but these are the main ones.
Basically, Tony and the TAC team wanted to get back to basics and focus on building guitar routine and foundational skills.
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Also, here’s a good video on guitar set up.