Sat Jul 11, 2009 4:35 pm
Greetings all..
We did in fact respond to this on the live show, but I will address it here again on behalf of Neil and Myself, we drafted this for you all...
It is our goal and target to create 4-6 songs a month, as stated in this thread. The plan was to make 2 TARGET Lessons and 2 TARGET Shorts the minimum average for a month, as well as to keep a good mix of beginning, intermediate & advanced material available, including more Free Lessons, a couple of TG Live broadcasts, critiquing uploaded videos, adding occasional Fly On The Wall videos, answering questions and participating as much as possible on the TARGET Members Forum, keeping everybody up-to-date with the TG Blog and Newsletter, as well as continuing to teach current students in Neil's studio.
Remember it is our goal not our promise. Sometimes we will deliver slightly more sometimes we will deliver slightly less...
Sometimes lessons take twice as much effort to create due to their complexity and our desire to teach them right. a recent example was classical Gas, due to the depth in which we teach it, it took twice the time to create and the lesson itself is twice as long...
We have an intentional mix of shorter and longer lessons, and combined with the base song list this should keep anyone very busy for a long time to come. We intend to add new songs every month in roughly the ratio we have discussed, and in fact we are beginning to get ahead of the creation side of this in the weeks ahead.
Just so we are clear on the facts on what we have provided.
We launched the TARGET Program at the end of April (thats a touch over 2 months now) with our first episode of TG Live, which lasted over 5 hours . Here is what has been added over the last two months-
Additions to the Song Library
Classical Gas- 5/8/09, Advanced, TARGET Lesson
Embryonic Journey- 5/26/09, Advanced, TARGET Lesson
Yesterday- 6/2/09, Intermediate, TARGET Lesson
Imagine- 6/10/09, Intermediate, TARGET Short
Here Comes The Sun Fingerstyle Solo- 6/24/09, Intermediate, TARGET Short
Harvest- 6/25/09, Beginning, TARGET Short
Tuesday Afternoon- 6/29/09 Intermediate, TARGET Short
Sweet Baby James- 6/18/09, Intermediate, Free Lesson
Hocus Pocus- 6/29/09, Intermediate, Free Lesson
TG Live for TARGET Members- Broadcasts, including lessons and Q&A on 6/18 and 6/26 and the one last night on 7/10
This weekend we have 2 full lessons being added..and a third short lesson
Harvest Moon- Intermediate, TARGET Lesson
Imagine- TARGET Lesson
Brown Eyed Girl- (focus on licks & intro) TARGET Short
The next in line is Hotel California, probably the week of July 21. This has turned into a huge project and to Neil's credit he really thought long and hard on how to teach this song, so as mentioned before this is one of those songs that just takes longer to do right, including how to teach a few different guitar parts and different levels.
We have in the hopper already an 80's tune , and we have a couple of tunes from the 70's to come before we release a modern (read last 5-10 years) song, which we will be inviting the Target members to participate in voting for.
Now that Neil is back from most of his commitments I expect we will meet and exceed our goals of course beyond song creation we also spend a lot of time improving the site in all sorts of ways to make the experience a better one for you.
We have a number of features that are being released currently and in the very near future to add to the experience, we will also be closing off access to new memberships at this price, in the very near future as we come closer to getting our objectives met. You are all foundational members so this has no impact on you as long as you remain with us.
As all of you know, Totally Guitars is still, and always will be, a work in progress. We started out with a game plan that definitely included getting input from our visitors and we certainly feel that the TG Community has helped us tremendously in choosing our direction and additions. I can honestly say we hear you and hope you feel that we have responded positively.
Hope you can join us for the next TG live episode...
Cheers
Neil and Matt