I'd been stuck in a rut for quite some time with my guitar playing (i.e. not really learning anything new and playing the same things over and over). Since joining TAC in March 2020, I feel I've moved on more in two months than I have in the last few years. Tony knows his stuff but he also knows how to teach: calmly. methodically, without pressure, but also with a sense of humour. Paying for a lifetime membership seemed like a bit of a risk at the time: but it's proving to be a wise investment!

I've been a member of the TAC program for about 3 weeks now and love it. Tony is an excellent teacher and explains things very well. The beautiful thing about these online lessons is that you can watch them over and over again if you miss something unlike personal lessons where you only have one chance. This program makes me pick up my guitar every day to learn new skills and perform exercises that will make me become a better guitar player. I eventually want to write my own songs and the music theory that I will learn from this program will help me achieve this goal by helping me understand not only what chords fit together but why they fit together. I also really enjoyed the special on Tony Emmanuel. I got to see Tony play live here in Ottawa a couple of years ago and he absolutely blew me away! Shows you what hard work and dedication can achieve. I'll never be as good as Tony, but this program will definitely elevate my playing ability.

Everything! It's awesome. Tony is a great teacher, and you can replay the videos and build up "small wins" - learn at your own pace, and learn a lot about the "guitar world" at the same time. Thank You Tony and Staff!!!

I am a total beginner, and Tony's Acoustic Challenge has been perfect for me so far. It is great because you begin learning things right away that are fun to play, challenging to be sure, but not so much so as to seem impossible. One sees progress and the prospect of more progress to come. I would recommend TAC to anyone.

Excellent way to get started playing acoustic guitar. The lessons are well laid out, challenging but easy to get back to and work on. The most difficult part for me was video posting since I am not comfortable as the subject.

Great, Friendly, knowledgeable program. Fun to use while you are learning. Look forward to the next day's lesson.

Appreciate all you do to help us guitar geeks to stay engaged and learn while enjoying the journey. Thanks

A couple of weeks into Tony’s Acoustic Challenge has shown me things in my guitar playing I had not noticed before. Being legally blind did not stop me from playing guitar and leading singing at Church 47 years ago, or working on computers a great deal of my career. Having been re-united with singing and playing for my Dad’s (The Greatest) generation last year, I see a need to be able to take a “vocal melodic rest” during some of the songs. Picking guitar was fine 30-40 years ago, but things have changed, and I wasn’t getting there on my own. I thought these lessons might help because Tony explained restringing a solid head acoustic guitar so well, I didn’t need to see how to do it. (Now to restring a slotted head acoustic). I figured if he could teach that, his lessons would be similar. These first two weeks showed me that my playing over time compensated for small hands and hand injuries. I never noticed problems with my webbed fingers on the fretting hand until these lessons. It is one thing to stretch the fingers, but 65 year old webbing doesn’t stretch so well, no matter how far up the neck you go, or short the scale. What I like best is that I can go back to the lessons and get better at them. I sit listening to the daily news and practice to get faster and cleaner. My biggest challenge was that two of the lessons are very close to the way I play some songs, and the challenge was retraining my fingers to do what Tony is teaching rather than the song. Kind of like when he added a 16th note that was not on the TAB but was from memory. These lessons would be a beyond my (beginning guitar) Grandchildren’s ability, (although they are starting with a Taylor Mini GS, ages 10-12 and we can do our lessons on DUO). Tony is better at teaching blind folks than whoever designed the web pages, but the customer service helps, usually the next day or two. But then again, with the stay-at-home order, we have time. Just wish he had a different selection of tunes. But then again, how many accompany Gregorian Chant daily.