{"id":1623,"date":"2014-05-23T20:17:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T20:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/blog\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2014-05-23T20:17:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T20:17:17","slug":"totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-may-23rd-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-may-23rd-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Totally Guitars Weekly Wrap Up May 23rd, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Totally Guitars Weekly Wrap Up May 23rd, 2014\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y-kUTOOLB-s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Totally Guitars\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/onlinelessons\">Online Guitar Lessons &#8211; Totally Guitars<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Totally Guitars Podcast\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/totally-guitars\/id519276594\">Totally Guitars Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trying to get back to the real world has been a little slower transition than I had hoped but things are starting to get a little more focused, I think. This week&#8217;s News started with a little Villa-Lobos experiment, followed by a recap of the recent releases, a few promises for the future (IGC mostly, and really only hopefully), and some thoughts on interesting Forum threads, particularly the <a title=\"Song Association Game - Totally Guitars Forum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/forum\/24-off-topic\/122098-song-title-association-game.html\">Song Association<\/a> game and the <a title=\"Article about Borrowing Music - TG Forum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/forum\/19-bands\/122016-interesting-article-about-a-famous-band-borrowing-music.html\">Borrowing Music<\/a> (not to mention any particular offenders&#8230;!).<\/p>\n<p>The recent releases included finishing up<a title=\"Fly On The Wall with Chan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/target-songs\/494-fly-on-the-wall\/6955-fly-on-the-wall-with-chan.html\"> Chan&#8217;s FOTW lesson<\/a> where Blue Sky was pretty much dissected, Vanessa&#8217;s contributions with <a title=\"Sirens - Pearl Jam - Guitar Lesson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/target-songs\/405-pearl-jam\/6964-sirens-pearl-jam-guitar-lesson.html\">Pearl Jam&#8217;s Sirens<\/a> and <a title=\"Bonfire Heart - James Blunt - Guitar Lesson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/target-songs\/305-james-blunt\/6971-bonfire-heart-james-blunt-guitar-lesson.html\">Bonfire Heart<\/a>, the last of the current batch of early Beatles singles, <a title=\"Can\u2019t Buy Me Love - The Beatles - Guitar Lesson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/target-songs\/315-beatles\/6967-can-t-buy-me-love-the-beatles-guitar-lesson.html\">Can&#8217;t Buy Me Love <\/a>and <a title=\"I Should Have Known Better - Beatles - Guitar Lesson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/target-songs\/315-beatles\/6969-i-should-have-known-better-beatles-guitar-lesson.html\">I Should Have Known Better<\/a>, and an easy classical <a title=\"Triplet Exercise In C Major - Easy Classical Guitar Lesson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/target-songs\/614-classical-guitar\/6963-triplet-exercise-in-c-major-easy-classical-guitar-lesson.html\">Triplet Exercise In C Major<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the highlights of my trip to Hilo was meeting <a title=\"A Visit With Mark Yamanaka Part 1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/blog\/interviews\/a-visit-with-mark-yamanaka-part-1\/\">Mark Yamanaka<\/a>. 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