{"id":1759,"date":"2014-12-06T02:32:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T02:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/blog\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2014-12-06T02:32:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T02:32:43","slug":"totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-december-5th-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-december-5th-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Totally Guitars Weekly Wrap Up December 5th, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Totally Guitars Weekly Wrap Up December 5th, 2014\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ar0y1TcBfuc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Acoustic Guitar Lessons from Totally Guitars\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/onlinelessons\">Learn to Play the Acoustic Guitar with Totally Guitars<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Totally Guitars News Podcast\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/totally-guitars\/id519276594\">Totally Guitars News Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today started with a random Christmas tune, as I need to play this evening at our local Tree Lighting Ceremony and figured it was time to review some sounds of the season. The News continued in the familiar, unstructured way but along the line I vaguely remember talking about Ragtime, difficult pieces, recent releases, and even a thinking out loud answer to the question of modifying Sleight Of Hand for non-cutaway players.<\/p>\n<p>The new additions this week included Ron working on <a title=\"Fly on the Wall - Taxi with Ron\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/target-songs\/494-fly-on-the-wall\/7948-taxi-with-ron.html\">Taxi by Harry Chapin (Fly On The Wall)<\/a>, the final segment of <a title=\"Ear Training For Guitarists - Phase II \u2013 Harmony\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/target-homepage\/acoustic-genius-series\/359-ags-theory\/7062-ear-training-for-guitarists-phase-ii-harmony.html\">Ear Training Phase II (Chord Progressions)<\/a>, <a title=\"All Through The Night - DADGAD Guitar Lesson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/target-songs\/365-holiday-instrumentals\/8012-all-through-the-night-dadgad-guitar-lesson.html\">Doug Young&#8217;s DADGAD arrangement of All Through The Night<\/a>, Vanessa&#8217;s lesson on <a title=\"Naked As We Came - Iron &amp; Wine - Guitar Lesson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/target-songs\/668-iron-wine\/8013-naked-as-we-came-iron-wine-guitar-lesson.html\">Naked As We Came by Iron &amp; Wine<\/a>, and a new twist with an Acoustic Snapshot that was a &#8220;Work In Progress.&#8221; This practice session on my constantly evolving arrangement of <a title=\"Heliotrope Bouquet \u2013 Neil Hogan Guitar - Acoustic SnapShot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/acousticsnapshots\/neil-hogan-acoustic\/heliotrope-bouquet-neil-hogan-guitar-works-in-progress-december-4-2014\/\">Heliotrope Bouquet<\/a>, a collaboration piece from Louis Chauvin and Scott Joplin, was basically a progress report on how this near impossible piece is coming along. 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