{"id":4701,"date":"2024-08-17T02:14:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T02:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/?p=4701"},"modified":"2024-08-17T19:05:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T19:05:12","slug":"totally-guitars-weekly-update-august-16-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-update-august-16-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Totally Guitars Weekly Update August 16, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Totally Guitars Weekly Update August 16, 2024\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wQd-Q5G-sdY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nAugust 16, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Just this morning I joined a small band of teachers at my daughter\u2019s school (she teaches 4thgrade there). They were doing a few sing-alongs with the whole school and one of the tunes was Take Me Home, Country Roads. It gave me an opportunity to play it in a different key than the standard version and it morphed into a fingerpicking ditty that was still on my mind at the start of this week\u2019s Update. It may be on my future lesson list soon. The other bookend for the video is a song by Pentangle that I have always meant to work out but just haven\u2019t gotten around to, for over 40 years. Stick around till the end for that short story.<\/p>\n<p>We added two great lessons to the TG Library this week: Monday, Monday by The Mamas &#038; The Papas and the solo arrangement of Blackbird that I have been obsessing over for a couple weeks now.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s set of lessons I heavily recommend included some riff-based ones with strumming at a couple levels, along with some of my favorite advanced ones.<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/lessons\/457-down-on-the-corner-free-guitar-lesson\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Down On The Corner<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/lessons\/1651-wish-you-were-here-guitar-lesson-pink-floyd\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wish You Were Here<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/lessons\/1548-the-needle-and-the-damage-done-guitar-lesson-neil-young\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Needle And The Damage Done<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/lessons\/155-birthday-guitar-lesson\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Birthday<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/lessons\/127-day-tripper-guitar-lesson\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Day Tripper<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/lessons\/1473-the-story-in-your-eyes-guitar-lesson-moody-blues\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Story In Your Eyes<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/lessons\/1177-long-cool-woman-in-a-black-dress\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/lessons\/162-here-comes-the-sun-guitar-lesson\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Here Comes The Sun (Flatpicking version)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/lessons\/1268-thick-as-a-brick\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thick As A Brick<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/lessons\/1611-dance-with-me-guitar-lesson\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dance With Me<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 16, 2024 Just this morning I joined a small band of teachers at my daughter\u2019s school (she teaches 4thgrade there). 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