{"id":2145,"date":"2016-12-17T01:04:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T01:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.totallyguitars.com\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2016-12-17T01:04:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T01:04:26","slug":"totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-december-16th-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-december-16th-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Totally Guitars Weekly Wrap Up December 16th, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Totally Guitars Weekly Wrap Up December 16th, 2016\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TaUlE-uXR6M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/\">Improve Your Guitar Skills<\/a> with the online guitars lessons from Totally Guitars!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/totally-guitars\/id519276594\">Totally Guitars News Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we head into the Holidays I want to wish the whole TG family health and happiness, as well as thanks from everybody here and behind the scenes for being part of the family. Today\u2019s recap started with the usual, offbeat and random improv based on some recognizable melodies, and there were a few others scattered throughout the segment.<\/p>\n<p>We did manage to get a few new things out this week, including a do-it-yourself approach to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/target-songs\/365-holiday-instrumentals\/27924-coventry-carol-a-lesson-in-harmony-holiday-instrumentals.html\">Coventry Carol<\/a>, Max\u2019s look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/target-songs\/377-eric-clapton\/27923-lay-down-sally-eric-clapton-guitar-lesson.html\">Eric Clapton\u2019s Lay Down Sally<\/a>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/target-songs\/512-packages\/27925-james-blunt-package.html\">package of James Blunt lessons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I also talked a bit about what some of my students are working on and how that inspired the approach to Coventry Carol, which I hope some of you take the time to tackle. 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