{"id":670,"date":"2011-11-26T21:14:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T21:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/blog\/?p=670"},"modified":"2011-11-26T21:14:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T21:14:41","slug":"totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-25-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-weekly-wrap-up-november-25-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Totally Guitars Weekly Wrap Up November 25, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Totally Guitars Weekly Wrap Up 11\/25\/2011\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5DCz_rYohsg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>November 25, 2011<\/p>\n<p>This week at TG we had a set of new Target lessons, a Pink Floyd Fly<br \/>\nOn The Wall, and a nod toward the American tradition of playing<br \/>\nAlice&#8217;s Restaurant around Thanksgiving time. Our Arlo Guthrie<br \/>\nconnection was rekindled with a Student Review of his country-blues,<br \/>\ntalking-blues, ragtime fingerstyle guitar, 1960s folk-protest song<br \/>\n(I&#8217;m sure I missed a few adjectives there so feel free to fill in your<br \/>\nown).<\/p>\n<p>As part of our Fly On The Wall lessons we took Kevin a little further<br \/>\ninto the world of Pink Floyd with a look at Another Brick In The Wall.<br \/>\nOf course, this is the title song (or at least Part 2 of 3) the last<br \/>\nreal PF album that also included Comfortably Numb, Is There Anybody<br \/>\nOut There, and Goodbye Blue Sky, all lessons we have here at TG, I<br \/>\nthink.<\/p>\n<p>Our main Target releases started with John Lennon&#8217;s Instant Karma, a<br \/>\nlesson presented in our Work It Out style to improve ear-training. I<br \/>\nguess I have to start warning people to not print out attachments<br \/>\nuntil watching the Preview, as this format is obviously gaining<br \/>\npopularity. On Wednesday we stayed firmly entrenched in the 60s with<br \/>\nDonovan&#8217;s folk song Catch The Wind. This is a nice song to work on<br \/>\npicking out some bass lines as part of the strumming, much like is<br \/>\ndone in Bluegrass playing. The week ended with a look at You&#8217;re So<br \/>\nVain by Carly Simon. This lesson included some of the piano parts, and<br \/>\neven the little bass flourish at the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>I hope everybody in the US had a good Thanksgiving weekend with<br \/>\nrelatives\/food\/football&#8230; whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Stay Tuned &#038; In Touch,<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 25, 2011<\/p>\n<p>This week at TG we had a set of new Target lessons, a Pink Floyd Fly<br \/>\nOn The Wall, and a nod toward the American tradition of playing<br \/>\nAlice&#8217;s Restaurant around Thanksgiving time. Our Arlo Guthrie<br \/>\nconnection was rekindled with a Student Review of his country-blues,<br \/>\ntalking-blues, ragtime fingerstyle guitar, 1960s folk-protest song<br \/>\n(I&#8217;m sure I missed a few adjectives there so feel free to fill in your<br \/>\nown).<\/p>\n<p>As part of our Fly On The Wall lessons we took Kevin a little further<br \/>\ninto the world of Pink Floyd with a look at Another Brick In The Wall.<br \/>\nOf course, this is the title song (or at least Part 2 of 3) the last<br \/>\nreal PF album that also included Comfortably Numb, Is There Anybody<br \/>\nOut There, and Goodbye Blue Sky, all lessons we have here at TG, I<br \/>\nthink.<\/p>\n<p>Our main Target releases started with John Lennon&#8217;s Instant Karma, a<br \/>\nlesson presented in our Work It Out style to improve ear-training. I<br \/>\nguess I have to start warning people to not print out attachments<br \/>\nuntil watching the Preview, as this format is obviously gaining<br \/>\npopularity. On Wednesday we stayed firmly entrenched in the 60s with<br \/>\nDonovan&#8217;s folk song Catch The Wind. This is a nice song to work on<br \/>\npicking out some bass lines as part of the strumming, much like is<br \/>\ndone in Bluegrass playing. The week ended with a look at You&#8217;re So<br \/>\nVain by Carly Simon. This lesson included some of the piano parts, and<br \/>\neven the little bass flourish at the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>I hope everybody in the US had a good Thanksgiving weekend with<br \/>\nrelatives\/food\/football&#8230; whatever.<\/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":[18,260,604,64,102,619,617,618,585],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guitar-news","tag-acoustic-guitar","tag-after-the-goldrush","tag-david-gilmour","tag-john-lennon","tag-neil-young","tag-neil-yplastic-ono-band","tag-plastic-ono-band","tag-roger-waters","tag-yoko-ono"],"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 25, 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-25-2011\/\" \/>\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 25, 2011 - On The Beat with Totally Guitars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"November 25, 2011  This week at TG we had a set of new Target lessons, a Pink Floyd Fly On The Wall, and a nod toward the American tradition of playing Alice&#039;s Restaurant around Thanksgiving time. 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