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Thank you for taking the time to write this up @Michelle-PSL . This helps others as much as it helps you to share them. I’m glad you didn’t give up after what you thought was a failure, which turned out to simply be a learning experience for you to not be too hard on yourself. I was blown away in your Day 100 post when you said that there were days that you did upwards of 40 takes to come up with a viable video to post. I can’t imagine doing that over and over, day in and day out, and we would have certainly understood if you had errors and hiccups in your performances. My heart goes out to you for that effort. But, just think of all that extra practice you got in (I’m smiling right now, because this is meant to be facetious).
Anyway, you’re definitely an inspiration to many. Albeit, not the extent that I want to tackle this type of challenge, but to the perseverance and your positive attitude.
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Link for merchandise through Acoustic Life — https://tonys-acoustic-challenge.creator-spring.com/?
Link to post your guitarsenal — https://acousticlife.tv/submit-your-guitarsenal/
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Awesome freat @AttyTJ
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Excellent job @KevinZ . I haven’t heard this song in a long time, and you definitely got the emotion down with your playing and vocals.
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Hey @BethL – Very nice win, and I agree. I couldn’t make it through this one the last round, but after some very serious consideration and trial and error, I made it through the lesson.
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Beautiful guitar @rob8584
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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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Hey @Tom000-18 you’ll know when it’s open by comments in the forum, and Tony will announce it during the 1st Wednesday of whatever month he does his shows for us (used to be monthly, but I believe they’re only doing them quarterly now). I believe you’ll see it in the emails from TAC too.
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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.