Hi Active Melody family!

It’s November, 2024 Site Member Challenge time!

For this month’s challenge, I want to hear your 3 favorite licks. These can be licks that you use all the time when you’re improvising or ones that you keep in reserve because they’re a special sound for you. They can be licks that you’ve learned from ActiveMelody lessons, or even your favorite artist.

To demonstrate the lick, you can either just play them on their own, or over an activemelody jam track. Any jam track in any key.

Make sure to notate where the lick comes from (with time stamps if possible) in the text of your post (or in the video if you prefer to do it that way). Even if it’s from a popular song, mention what song it is and what the time stamp is in the song.

This will allow us to check these licks out on our own if we want.

The submission date for this challenge will be Sunday, December 6 – you can start submitting Friday, December 8/strong>

1. Post your Youtube, Vimeo, or Soundcloud links of you playing your chosen lesson anytime between Friday, December 6, through Sunday, December 8, 10:00 pm CST. Please do not submit earlier. I think it is fun to see everyone’s posts at once.

2. Submit individually in the “Active Melody Member Challenge Response Submissions” forum. Title your posts “November 2024 Challenge Response – [Your AM Screen Name]”

3. Please submit only a single video or audio file for this challenge.

4. Have fun and don’t be intimidated by these challenges!!! Use these challenges to help you set goals and complete them by a deadline. You can also use this as an opportunity to chat with your fellow Active Melody members and share tips or tricks on this challenge that you think are useful.

5. In my opinion, it is better to show progress versus perfection with these challenges. So if you are a beginner and can only play the first couple of measures. That is completely ok. If you play two more measures of the next challenge piece than you did the previous one, you are on track to getting better. This is what these challenges are about…you learning guitar and getting better. Remember we are all here to support you no matter what your current playing level is.

I look forward to seeing everyone’s posts! 🙂