{"id":4753,"date":"2024-12-07T14:50:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T14:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/?p=4753"},"modified":"2024-12-07T14:50:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T14:50:10","slug":"totally-guitars-weekly-update-december-6-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-update-december-6-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Totally Guitars Weekly Update December 6, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Totally Guitars Weekly Update December 6, 2024\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Iv_a6JezPHA?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 \/>\nDecember 6, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Last week I played a bit of some of the songs from our new strumming packs (<a href=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/packages\/304-neils-top-strumming-songs-volume-1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neil&#8217;s Top Strumming Songs Volumes 1 &#038; 2<\/a>) and a few of my students wanted to work on the melodic strumming improv I did on <a href=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/lessons\/1490-solitary-man\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Solitary Man<\/a>. That reminded me of a recent request I got to tab out my opening to <a href=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/lessons\/119-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-the-band-guitar-lesson\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down<\/a>, which was an early lesson where I did something similar in the Preview. That instrumental bit was the opening to today&#8217;s Update, along with a bit more of the story.<\/p>\n<p>Something else that popped up recently was a question on the TG Forum about the harmony in the intro to S<a href=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/lessons\/1491-sweet-caroline-neil-diamond-guitar-lesson\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">weet Caroline<\/a>. 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