Participate in the June 2024 Site Member Challenge!

[Brian]

Hi Active Melody family!

It’s June, 2024 Site Member Challenge time!

For this month’s challenge I thought it would be fun to go back and revisit the “Call & Response” technique to create a stand-alone composition in which you go back and forth between a call and response. I give a few examples in the video above.

You can do this on acoustic or electric guitar, but no jam tracks! Just you and your guitar on this one. Just remember, it doesn’t have to be fast or complicated, set it at whatever your comfort level is!

Here’s a link to several Call & Response style lessons that you can either copy exactly, or steal ideas from them.

The submission date for this challenge will be Sunday, June 30 – you can start submitting Friday, June 28

**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, June 28, through Sunday, June 30, 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 “June 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! 🙂

[Dermot M]

Thanks Brian. Good challenge Summer is my fav time too! Great to be able to practice outdoors in the sunshine.

[charjo]

You are a different kind of cat, Brian, those cicadas would drive me nuts, especially a double dose!
Could you post a recording or incorporate them into a composition, like the “Cicada blues” or “I woke up this morning…. and this afternoon and this evening….”?
John

[Denise]

One thing is for sure: I will be using my 6120 with Bigsby tremolo bar for this months challenge!😃😎
Denise

More Blues!

[Manfred M]

It’s going to be quite a challenge for me. I’m traveling in Greece until June 26th (without guitar). So I still have 3 days to produce something for the challenge. Let’s see if I can get a response for this call?

[b]Take the chance to meet your AM friends on Zoom.
The next Meetup will take place sometime in December/January.[/b]

There will be a detailed announcement here in the forum by beginning of december at the latest.

I look forward to meet you.
Manfred

[sciencefiction]

In the video, Brian says (1:27), “Just don’t use a jam track.” But a lot of the lessons he recomends are played with some kind of backing track?
SF

[Michael L]

I took his suggested lessons to be “idea generators” as opposed to lessons to play for the challenge.

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