Hi Active Melody family!

It’s time for the August, 2025 Site Member Challenge

This month’s challenge is about creating a song out of no more than 2 major chords (no minor chords) – This can be a solo composition, any ActiveMelody lesson that uses 2 chords (I remember doing a 2 chord jam lesson years ago), you can also create a jam track with 2 chords and solo on top of it.

If you happened to participate in the 2021 version of this challenge, come up with something new for this one!

There are 3 scenarios that work best for 2 major chords – 1 chord to the 4 chord, 1 chord to the 5 chord, and 1 chord to the flat 7. Those are the 3 that pop into my head, you might be able to find some other 2 major chord scenarios though.

If for some reason you prefer doing something with just 1 chord, that works too!

The submission date for this challenge will be Sunday, September 14 – you can start submitting Friday, September 12

**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, September 12, through Sunday, September 14, 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 “August 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! 🙂