{"id":4815,"date":"2025-05-02T22:10:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T22:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/?p=4815"},"modified":"2025-05-02T22:10:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T22:10:26","slug":"totally-guitars-weekly-update-may-2-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-update-may-2-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Totally Guitars Weekly Update May 2, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Totally Guitars Weekly Update May 2 2025\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xDnSYmZtgZQ?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 \/>\nMay 2, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend we held our Spring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationalguitarcamp.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">International Guitar Camp<\/a> (IGC), and had a blast. Today&#8217;s Update started with a day-by-day recap, followed by a short lesson, or possibly another way of thinking about modes. This was inspired by one of our long time campers thinking the subject was clearing up at camp but some confusion crept in back in the real world. I described a circular way and a linear way to look at them.<\/p>\n<p>We could also use some feedback from anyone who has tried out our Chrome extension &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/chromewebstore.google.com\/search\/TotallyGuitars%20Lessons%20Saver?hl=en-US&#038;utm_source=ext_sidebar\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TotallyGuitars Lessons Saver<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Things ended with another request for help, this one being kid&#8217;s songs. Now that we have a one-year-old grandson I have to resurrect tunes I played a generation ago when my kids were young. I tested out some solo versions of a couple that crossed my mind yesterday and look forward to your suggestions on others.<\/p>\n<p>Catch you next time,<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2, 2025 Last weekend we held our Spring International Guitar Camp (IGC), and had a blast. Today&#8217;s Update started with a day-by-day recap, followed by a short lesson, or possibly another way of thinking about modes. 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