Hi Everyone,
Here is you weekly video wrap up for this week......
http://www.totallyguitars.com/blog/tota ... -2012.html
Enjoy and have a great weekend!
March 2, 2012
This week at TG sat in on a couple of lessons with my students (Fly On
The Wall lessons), reviewed a couple of student uploads, released a
couple of artist packs, and looked at songs by Buddy Holly, Stevie
Nicks, and the Guess Who. The News also included a short look at my
wooden guitar stand.
Our Target lessons started with Leather And Lace by Stevie Nicks, of
course with additional vocals by Don Henley, who helped her quite a
bit in composing the song. This is mostly a basic strumming song, that
works on hitting individual bass notes. Our second song, Well All
Right by Buddy Holly, is a little similar, needing some bass notes
leading into chord changes. We also looked at a medley by The Guess
Who, No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature. This really was separate
songs by Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings that combined perfectly in
a manner similar to what McCartney and Lennon did with I’ve Got A
Feeling.
Our Fly On The Wall series continued with a look at Kevin working on
Falling And Flying from the movie Crazy Heart, as well as Fred
polishing up the strumming in Not Fade Away. These were paired with a
couple Student Reviews on Classical Gas and Wipe Out, both songs I
like to have many students play.
For those TG visitors who like their songs in artist packs we put
together a 6-Pack of Badfinger songs and a 10-Pack of Damien Rice
songs. These packs are a great way to save a lot compared to the price
of individual lessons, although not nearly as economically efficient
as a Target membership.
A request came in form one of our members who wanted to get a better
look at a wooden guitar stand you may have seen in the TG cabin. I
took the opportunity to do a ‘Show & Tell’ with it and hope to inspire
folks who are handy woodworkers to build their own. This is something
way outside my capabilities and I really admire people who can do
stuff like that.
By the way, our first song this week (Leather And Lace) was one that
jumped out at me from our Recommend A Lesson section. This reminded me
to take a closer look over there again and there will be a few more
coming in the near future so this would be a good time for folks to
visit that section and keep the votes coming. Generally a song needs
to get up around 20 votes to start getting seriously considered for a
lesson. Of course, there are many factors and exceptions involved but
this is a general overview of how we take the suggestions.
Until next week…
Stay Tuned & In Touch,
Neil
On the Beat - Episode 103 - Weekly Guitar video news wrap up March 2nd, 2012
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Neil
What a great week of new songs.
Lemon Twist sounds great.
I like the sliding up and down the fretboard.
I don't see it listed on any of your albums.
Do you plan to put it to a lesson?
Dermot
Edit
For anyone else interested I created a Recommend A Lesson entry for Lemon Twist
Recommend A Lesson - To Vote Lemon Twist Click Here
What a great week of new songs.
Lemon Twist sounds great.
I like the sliding up and down the fretboard.
I don't see it listed on any of your albums.
Do you plan to put it to a lesson?
Dermot
Edit
For anyone else interested I created a Recommend A Lesson entry for Lemon Twist
Recommend A Lesson - To Vote Lemon Twist Click Here
I never saw this teaser,,,you don't look a bit older after the bunch of lessons we got..
I now the song is in the reccomend a lesson..Mmmmmm could'nt find it but now it is there..
http://www.totallyguitars.com/song-voti ... -eyes.html
I now the song is in the reccomend a lesson..Mmmmmm could'nt find it but now it is there..
http://www.totallyguitars.com/song-voti ... -eyes.html
Willem, this song was recommended by you over 2 years ago, and has 47 votes. It looks to be #29 on the Top 100 list, #12 of those not lessons yet. James Taylor is on the 'soon to get to' list. I am working on many tunes by a group of singer/songwriters that I have somewhat neglected for other lessons for quite a while.
Neil
Neil
TGNeil wrote:
Willem
Edit,,gee i saw it now...
Yes Neil I thought I did but the search button did'nt give it back,,,sorry for putting on a second one.,,I thought I recognised also the beginning chords in the wrap up..Willem, this song was recommended by you over 2 years ago, and has 47 votes. It looks to be #29 on the Top 100 list, #12 of those not lessons yet. James Taylor is on the 'soon to get to' list. I am working on many tunes by a group of singer/songwriters that I have somewhat neglected for other lessons for quite a while.
Neil
Willem
Edit,,gee i saw it now...