{"id":658,"date":"2011-11-04T22:44:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T22:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2022-06-23T16:48:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T16:48:02","slug":"totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Totally Guitars Weekly Wrap Up November 4, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Totally Guitars Weekly Wrap Up 11\/04\/2011\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JoOQ1MmqOzA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>November 4, 2011<\/p>\n<p>This week at TotallyGuitars we added a couple of pretty recent songs<br \/>\nto the Target Program, along with a great Beginning Fingerpicking<br \/>\nCourse. We have gotten quite a few requests for a step-bys-step<br \/>\napproach to fingerpicking and we answered with Fingerpicking 101. This<br \/>\nis a set of lessons that start at the very beginning and take you from<br \/>\nhow to position your right hand and strike the strings into the type<br \/>\nof patterns used in dozens of the Target songs.<\/p>\n<p>We stepped back into the present with lessons on Nickelback&#8217;s How You<br \/>\nRemind Me and Ryan Adams&#8217; Answering Bell. Both of these were songs<br \/>\nbrought to my attention first by private students. After working with<br \/>\nthem a bit, they both seemed like they had something to offer our TG<br \/>\nstudents.<\/p>\n<p>On the reality side we had a couple of Fly On The Wall Lessons and<br \/>\nStudent Reviews. On the review side we saw uploads of Imagine and<br \/>\nCat&#8217;s In The Cradle, with comments and suggestions that can apply to<br \/>\nmany other songs. Our Fly Series continued with a revisited look at<br \/>\nEmbryonic Journey and a short lesson on Toes, by Zac Brown. This<br \/>\nturned into more of a transposing lesson although the discussions on<br \/>\nToes pretty much show how to play it without charts or tab.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the scenes, we have had the staff hard at work lately<br \/>\nredesigning our top menus to make many of our lessons more easily<br \/>\naccessible. Getting to places like our Strumming Series or Theory<br \/>\nLessons is now as simple as pulling a drop down menu from the row<br \/>\nacross the top. We have quite a few more things to add up here now<br \/>\nthat it is mostly working the way we planned.<\/p>\n<p>That was the week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Stay Tuned &#038; In Touch,<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 4, 2011<\/p>\n<p>This week at TotallyGuitars we added a couple of pretty recent songs<br \/>\nto the Target Program, along with a great Beginning Fingerpicking<br \/>\nCourse. We have gotten quite a few requests for a step-bys-step<br \/>\napproach to fingerpicking and we answered with Fingerpicking 101. This<br \/>\nis a set of lessons that start at the very beginning and take you from<br \/>\nhow to position your right hand and strike the strings into the type<br \/>\nof patterns used in dozens of the Target songs.<\/p>\n<p>We stepped back into the present with lessons on Nickelback&#8217;s How You<br \/>\nRemind Me and Ryan Adams&#8217; Answering Bell. Both of these were songs<br \/>\nbrought to my attention first by private students. After working with<br \/>\nthem a bit, they both seemed like they had something to offer our TG<br \/>\nstudents.<\/p>\n<p>On the reality side we had a couple of Fly On The Wall Lessons and<br \/>\nStudent Reviews. On the review side we saw uploads of Imagine and<br \/>\nCat&#8217;s In The Cradle, with comments and suggestions that can apply to<br \/>\nmany other songs. Our Fly Series continued with a revisited look at<br \/>\nEmbryonic Journey and a short lesson on Toes, by Zac Brown. This<br \/>\nturned into more of a transposing lesson although the discussions on<br \/>\nToes pretty much show how to play it without charts or tab.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the scenes, we have had the staff hard at work lately<br \/>\nredesigning our top menus to make many of our lessons more easily<br \/>\naccessible. Getting to places like our Strumming Series or Theory<br \/>\nLessons is now as simple as pulling a drop down menu from the row<br \/>\nacross the top. We have quite a few more things to add up here now<br \/>\nthat it is mostly working the way we planned.<\/p>\n<p>That was the week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Stay Tuned &#038; In Touch,<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[595,593,596,177,597,563,176,100,175,578,594,588,599,29,598],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guitar-news","tag-answering-bell","tag-beginners-fingerpicking","tag-cats-in-teh-cradle","tag-chords","tag-embryonic-journey","tag-fingerpicking","tag-free-online-lesson","tag-harry-chapin","tag-learn-to-play-guitar","tag-nickelback","tag-remind-me","tag-ryan-adams","tag-toes","tag-totally-guitars","tag-zac-brown"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Totally Guitars Weekly Wrap Up November 4, 2011 - On The Beat with Totally Guitars<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Totally Guitars Weekly Wrap Up November 4, 2011 - On The Beat with Totally Guitars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"November 4, 2011  This week at TotallyGuitars we added a couple of pretty recent songs to the Target Program, along with a great Beginning Fingerpicking Course. We have gotten quite a few requests for a step-bys-step approach to fingerpicking and we answered with Fingerpicking 101. This is a set of lessons that start at the very beginning and take you from how to position your right hand and strike the strings into the type of patterns used in dozens of the Target songs.  We stepped back into the present with lessons on Nickelback&#039;s How You Remind Me and Ryan Adams&#039; Answering Bell. Both of these were songs brought to my attention first by private students. After working with them a bit, they both seemed like they had something to offer our TG students.  On the reality side we had a couple of Fly On The Wall Lessons and Student Reviews. On the review side we saw uploads of Imagine and Cat&#039;s In The Cradle, with comments and suggestions that can apply to many other songs. Our Fly Series continued with a revisited look at Embryonic Journey and a short lesson on Toes, by Zac Brown. This turned into more of a transposing lesson although the discussions on Toes pretty much show how to play it without charts or tab.  Behind the scenes, we have had the staff hard at work lately redesigning our top menus to make many of our lessons more easily accessible. Getting to places like our Strumming Series or Theory Lessons is now as simple as pulling a drop down menu from the row across the top. We have quite a few more things to add up here now that it is mostly working the way we planned.  That was the week...  Stay Tuned &amp; In Touch,  Neil\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"On The Beat with Totally Guitars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-11-04T22:44:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-23T16:48:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/ccd7959bc7a790502cd976ce9c4ec242\"},\"headline\":\"Totally Guitars Weekly Wrap Up November 4, 2011\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-11-04T22:44:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-23T16:48:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/\"},\"wordCount\":311,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"answering bell\",\"beginners fingerpicking\",\"cats in teh cradle\",\"chords\",\"embryonic journey\",\"fingerpicking\",\"free online lesson\",\"harry chapin\",\"learn to play guitar\",\"nickelback\",\"remind me\",\"ryan adams\",\"toes\",\"totally guitars\",\"zac brown\"],\"articleSection\":[\"TG News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/\",\"name\":\"Totally Guitars Weekly Wrap Up November 4, 2011 - On The Beat with Totally Guitars\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-11-04T22:44:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-23T16:48:02+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Totally Guitars Weekly Wrap Up November 4, 2011\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"On The Beat with Totally Guitars\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Totally Guitars\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/TG_Logo_Rondelle_COL.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/TG_Logo_Rondelle_COL.png\",\"width\":830,\"height\":897,\"caption\":\"Totally Guitars\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/ccd7959bc7a790502cd976ce9c4ec242\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e0c9111a9f588b8a01172273aa76aee1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e0c9111a9f588b8a01172273aa76aee1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Totally Guitars Weekly Wrap Up November 4, 2011 - On The Beat with Totally Guitars","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Totally Guitars Weekly Wrap Up November 4, 2011 - On The Beat with Totally Guitars","og_description":"November 4, 2011  This week at TotallyGuitars we added a couple of pretty recent songs to the Target Program, along with a great Beginning Fingerpicking Course. We have gotten quite a few requests for a step-bys-step approach to fingerpicking and we answered with Fingerpicking 101. This is a set of lessons that start at the very beginning and take you from how to position your right hand and strike the strings into the type of patterns used in dozens of the Target songs.  We stepped back into the present with lessons on Nickelback's How You Remind Me and Ryan Adams' Answering Bell. Both of these were songs brought to my attention first by private students. After working with them a bit, they both seemed like they had something to offer our TG students.  On the reality side we had a couple of Fly On The Wall Lessons and Student Reviews. On the review side we saw uploads of Imagine and Cat's In The Cradle, with comments and suggestions that can apply to many other songs. Our Fly Series continued with a revisited look at Embryonic Journey and a short lesson on Toes, by Zac Brown. This turned into more of a transposing lesson although the discussions on Toes pretty much show how to play it without charts or tab.  Behind the scenes, we have had the staff hard at work lately redesigning our top menus to make many of our lessons more easily accessible. Getting to places like our Strumming Series or Theory Lessons is now as simple as pulling a drop down menu from the row across the top. We have quite a few more things to add up here now that it is mostly working the way we planned.  That was the week...  Stay Tuned & In Touch,  Neil","og_url":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/","og_site_name":"On The Beat with Totally Guitars","article_published_time":"2011-11-04T22:44:51+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-06-23T16:48:02+00:00","author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/ccd7959bc7a790502cd976ce9c4ec242"},"headline":"Totally Guitars Weekly Wrap Up November 4, 2011","datePublished":"2011-11-04T22:44:51+00:00","dateModified":"2022-06-23T16:48:02+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/"},"wordCount":311,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#organization"},"keywords":["answering bell","beginners fingerpicking","cats in teh cradle","chords","embryonic journey","fingerpicking","free online lesson","harry chapin","learn to play guitar","nickelback","remind me","ryan adams","toes","totally guitars","zac brown"],"articleSection":["TG News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/","url":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/","name":"Totally Guitars Weekly Wrap Up November 4, 2011 - On The Beat with Totally Guitars","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-11-04T22:44:51+00:00","dateModified":"2022-06-23T16:48:02+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-4-2011\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Totally Guitars Weekly Wrap Up November 4, 2011"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/","name":"On The Beat with Totally Guitars","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Totally Guitars","url":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/TG_Logo_Rondelle_COL.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/TG_Logo_Rondelle_COL.png","width":830,"height":897,"caption":"Totally Guitars"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/ccd7959bc7a790502cd976ce9c4ec242","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e0c9111a9f588b8a01172273aa76aee1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e0c9111a9f588b8a01172273aa76aee1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"url":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3905,"href":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/3905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}