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Hi Active Melody family!
It’s February 2025 Site Member Challenge time!
Ok, for this month’s challenge I’ve written a little piano / string composition that I want you to play a guitar part over. You can play the chords, arpeggiate the chords, play harmonies, play a single string lead on electric or acoustic guitar… whatever you want to do!
I’m leaving this very open on purpose. I want to hear what you would come up with.
I’m not mentioning the chords, or the key of the song – I want you to figure that out. You can discuss on the forum if you have to.
Here’s the MP3 file of the piano and string track
The submission date for this challenge will be Sunday, March 9 – you can start submitting Friday, March 7
**If you need assistance with how to record yourself and post to the forum see this post**
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GROUND RULES FOR PARTICIPATION:
1. Post your Youtube, Vimeo, or Soundcloud links of you playing your chosen lesson anytime between Friday, March 7, through Sunday, March 9, 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 “February 2025 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! 🙂
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I’m wiping the tears from my eyes… beautiful piece. I guess you answered my question. Is there a chord sheet, lol?
John
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I like the idea of the challenge; to figure it out on our own. It’s a bit more complicated obviously, but I think changes we’ve all heard before in one way or another.
For instance, it definitely shifts tot he relative minor and sounds like a minor iv resolving to I before that modulation.
Be good for our ears to figure it out and goes with the idea of making us competent improvisers 🙂 -
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I started a thread on the chord progression
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