On The Beat - Episode 859 - Weekly Guitar Video News Wrap Up July 10, 2026
July 10, 2026
This week I revisited a bunch of Paul Simon’s songs, partly because a couple students were working on his songs. That inspired today’s opening improv, and a couple others later. You should hear parts of The Boxer, Duncan, America, and a little Jackson Browne along the way.
Our latest challenge: Learn To Read Music in 25 days with just a 5-minute daily commitment. The eight lessons are all free now, but navigation is a bit difficult due to our platform and Forum limitations. Most of this is addressed and explained (I think) in today’s Update. An important thing is that you need to be logged in to the Forum to have the easiest path to the lessons. The secret is to use the Quick Links menu in the upper left corner, then drop down to ‘Active Topics’ to get to the latest posts.
As of today, there are links to lessons 1-4, with the remaining ones coming in the next few days.
We are hosting another episode of TG Live next Saturday, July 18 at 10:00am Pacific time to expand on the ‘Learn To Read Music’ theme. Info on joining will be in emails to our members soon.
That’s All Folks!
Neil
Simon & Garfunkel Pack: