Participate in the July 2024 Site Member Challenge!

[Brian]

Hi Active Melody family!

It’s July, 2024 Site Member Challenge time!

For this month’s challenge I wanted to honor a suggestion from several of you (brought to my attention by Andre), and that is for you to improvise over the jam track in lesson EP576. That’s the fantastic jam track that Quist provided us with.

So here’s the catch, 1 take! Flip on the camera, and just let it happen. Mistakes and all. Just like an actual live performance. It’ll be good for you! When you do this, you’ll get a more raw / real performance, PLUS it will shine a light on problem areas for you. That doesn’t happen if you know you have endless takes.

The submission date for this challenge will be Sunday, August 4 – you can start submitting Friday, August 2

**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, August 2, through Sunday, August 4, 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 “July 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! 🙂

[Laurel C]

Great idea Brian, it did seem the obvious choice when suggested in the forum. Just when it was a thought that you surely wouldn’t go there… one take! now that is a challenge. Look forward to what everyone comes up with. I am sure that Quist would take an interest in the results also.

[Dermot M]

Thanks Brian (and Andre).

Looking forward to this Joolie Benchmark challenge and seeing what every one comes up with.

Dermot.

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