{"id":719,"date":"2012-02-17T21:26:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T21:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/blog\/?p=719"},"modified":"2012-02-17T21:26:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T21:26:04","slug":"totally-guitars-lessons-weekly-wrap-up-feb-17th-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-lessons-weekly-wrap-up-feb-17th-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Totally Guitars Lessons Weekly Wrap Up Feb. 17th, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Totally Guitars Lessons Wrap Up Feb 17, 2010\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-I-ja8HYX-M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>February 17, 2012<\/p>\n<p>This week we resurrected a popular feature that our Target Members<br \/>\nhave enjoyed since Day 1- Student Reviews. This part of the site is<br \/>\nwhere students upload videos of songs they are working on and get<br \/>\ncomments and suggestions from other members, as well as a critical<br \/>\nreview from me. This week we saw reviews of Listen To The Music by The<br \/>\nDoobie Brothers and George Harrison&#8217;s Here Comes The Sun. We are happy<br \/>\nto get this feature back up and running.<\/p>\n<p>We also added Target lessons by Buddy Holly, Damien Rice, and a slack<br \/>\nkey instrumental- Ke Aloha. The Buddy Holly tune was Words Of Love, a<br \/>\nsong covered by no less than The Beatles as John Lennon was a huge fan<br \/>\nof Holly&#8217;s. We continued our exploration of Damien Rice songs with one<br \/>\nof his first to get airplay here- The Blower&#8217;s Daughter. This is a<br \/>\nclassic example of his use of semi-open barre chords that really<br \/>\ncontribute to an interesting sound. We also had a short Fly On The<br \/>\nWall video for this song as my student Pete started working on it<br \/>\nrecently.<\/p>\n<p>Another Fly On The Wall video was published this week that featured<br \/>\nKevin working on Closer To Fine, by The Indigo Girls. this lessons<br \/>\nalso went a bit into explaining Suspended Chords.<\/p>\n<p>On a little sideline, I had fun tracking the progress of The Banner.<br \/>\nIf you have not been following this, be sure to check the thread on<br \/>\nthe Forum as to the whereabouts of this global traveler. It has made<br \/>\nits way to California, on its way to who knows where&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Stay Tuned &#038; In Touch,<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 17, 2012<\/p>\n<p>This week we resurrected a popular feature that our Target Members<br \/>\nhave enjoyed since Day 1- Student Reviews. 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It has made<br \/>\nits way to California, on its way to who knows where&#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":[18,62,670,445,621,113,176,195,673,591,175,669,671,672,27],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guitar-news","tag-acoustic-guitar","tag-beatles","tag-billy-joel","tag-buddy-holly","tag-damien-rice","tag-doobie-brothers","tag-free-online-lesson","tag-george-harrison","tag-here-comes-the-sun","tag-imagine","tag-learn-to-play-guitar","tag-mark-almond","tag-new-york-state-of-mind","tag-the-blowers-daughter","tag-totallyguitars-com"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Totally Guitars Lessons Weekly Wrap Up Feb. 17th, 2012 - 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-lessons-weekly-wrap-up-feb-17th-2012\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Totally Guitars Lessons Weekly Wrap Up Feb. 17th, 2012 - On The Beat with Totally Guitars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"February 17, 2012  This week we resurrected a popular feature that our Target Members have enjoyed since Day 1- Student Reviews. 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