Active Melody T-Shirt Challenge

[Bryce-AKguitar]

UPDATE: CONTACT BRIAN FOR ALL TSHIRT REQUESTS.

The surprise will only be for Challenge Champions who complete their 12 consecutive challenges by March 2018. All Challenge Champions after March 2018 will only receive a special Challenge Champion T-Shirt. Refer to this post for the surprise.

1. Must be a premium member to participate. Premium membership must be active throughout entire participation period.

2. Participants have (12) consecutive months to complete (6) challenges and post their playing on the Active Melody Forum as specified in each individual challenge posted by Bryce (Bryce-AKguitar). The time period starts when a member submits their first challenge response on the Active Melody forum. You can start at any time during the year. This opportunity will continue indefinitely.

3. If you complete (12) challenges in (12) consecutive months you will earn a special Active Melody T-shirt.

4. Members can only earn (1) T-shirt every 12 months.

5. Every 12 months the challenges submitted towards a T-shirt reset. (e.g. if you submit your first challenge response in January 2017, you have to submit (5) more challenges responses by January 2018 to qualify for a t-shirt. In February 2018 your challenges reset to 0.)

6. For your challenge submission to count towards a T-shirt, participates must submit a video of themselves playing each challenge piece on either Vimeo or Youtube no later than the listed challenge deadline period on the Active Melody Forum.

7. Once (6) or (12) challenges are completed, members are to email the following to Brian at [email protected]: Active Melody Username, List of Challenge Months Participated in, T-shirt Size, and Mailing Address with all applicable country codes.

8. T-shirts will be shipped to no later than 60 calendar days from confirmation of premium membership verification and challenge participation.

-Bryce
Anchorage, Alaska

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[gquellet]

Nice marketing ploy Bryce. Count me in 🙂

[Billy]

Sadly, I am not going down the video route any time soon. Wish everyone participating lots of success with this.

Billy

..Billy..

[charjo]

This is going to practically pay for my membership. Oooh, can the 12 challenge surprise be a trip to Nashville to jam with Brian!
John

[johnstrat]

Bryce Is a video link such as drop box which I use or for that matter any other link arrangement excluded?

I have just heard you say in the video that Drop box is a no go seems a shame to exclude folk on what appears to be pretty narrow grounds any chance of the reasoning behind this rule?
JohnStrat

[bluesguitarlvr]

Billy,

I wouldn’t count y’self out on this. Your last audio posting was really good so all we need is a video of you playing that telecaster in future postings and you’re good to go!
Tim

[Billy]

bluesguitarlvr wrote:

Billy,

I wouldn’t count y’self out on this. Your last audio posting was really good so all we need is a video of you playing that telecaster in future postings and you’re good to go!
Tim

Thanks Tim, nice of you to say. Tbh I have no interest in video.. I am happy though to watch all of you lot playing on video… hahahahaha

Good luck to everyone taking part.

..Billy..

[bri-uklefty]

Hey nice bit of marketing strategy Bryce and a great incentive for members too!

I’m with John for the Nashville visit to jam with Brian; then I think how about trying to arrange some sort of AM Jamboree if any significant AM dates due. I realise a big financial commitment for members, but if plenty of notice such as one or two years I would try to arrange bit of a US guitar journey road trip to incorporate such an event.

Just a thought but from little acorns and might ignite some ahah, perhaps I’d also like that thoughts around the community?

Cheers Bri

[johnstrat]

Hi Brian just good to see you on the forum. I hope you are on the mend and had a great Christmas, Happy New Year. I made a similar suggestion some while ago and second the plan for an AM jamboree some time (The AMJam could be a name!). perhaps it could be set up around a Crossroads concert or similar or even a Blues Cruise maybe a group discount could be fixed up. There is a thought. All the Best JohnStrat

[Richard S]

I’m with John and Bri, a trip to jam with Brian would be awesome and count me in. Am AM rendezvous would be equally exciting, and why not both?

I know this has been entertained in the past, perhaps time to make it happen.

Cheers,

Richard

[Bryce-AKguitar]

@johnstrat: The reason I’ve excluded Dropbox and other cloud hosting services is:

1: Consistency. The vast majority of members use either YouTube or Vimeo for video hosting.
2: Dropbox video links do not embed in forum posts. They also do not embed on Facebook.

If you would like to discuss this further you can email me or private message me.

@williammillar31hotmail-com: If it helps, your face does not have to be in the video, just your guitar.

@charjo: Now THAT would be a surprise!

-Bryce
Anchorage, Alaska

[Billy]

Bryce-AKguitar wrote:

@johnstrat:
@williammillar31hotmail-com: If it helps, your face does not have to be in the video, just your guitar.

hahahahaha rude but funny.. hahahaha

I am not being forced in to doing something that I have no interest in doing, now can we just leave it at that, thank you..

..Billy..

[Havasumark]

Count me in Bryce, can never have enough AM Tee’s.. Also John’s idea is a good one…

Mark

[Bryce-AKguitar]

@williammillar31hotmail-com: Oh wow! Billy I did not mean that to be rude! I just meant that some members find it less daunting to video record just their guitar and not their face. But I hear you and will respect your wishes.

-Bryce
Anchorage, Alaska

[Robotman]

Sweet! It’s on, then!

One thing, though. I’m subscribed to the challenge thread, but I am not getting the updates in my email. I am not getting notification of the challenge for each month. How do I get notifications?

Jeff

[Bryce-AKguitar]

@robotman: Jeff, if you click on the “Active Melody Guitar Lessons” Forum, you can subscribe to the whole forum. That means anytime someone posts a new topic in the forum you will get an email notification. See screenshot on where to click below. You can do this within each individual forum on Active Melody.

-Bryce
Anchorage, Alaska

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[CliffordLance]

I would like to have a T shirt, are they available for purchase?
Thanks
Lance Gurwell

[Bryce-AKguitar]

@cliffordlance: Hi Clifford! We have stopped selling Active Melody T-shirts indefinitely. You can earn one however by participating in the challenges as specified in this post.

Warm Regards,

-Bryce
Anchorage, Alaska

[Alex]

Wouldn’t it be simpler to just give a T-shirt to everyone who doesn’t cancel their subscription for 12 consecutive months?

[Paddyboy]

I disagree with you on that Alex. Wouldn’t have the same meaning. To complete 12 monthly challenges in a row is a real accomplishment.

Rgds,
Pat F

“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”

[sunburst]

count me in too Bryce, I am happy as premium member,enjoy every lesson Brian ..good and plenty for all levels of participants.. even before I joined as premium couple seasons prior i watched and learned a lot from this site. And I been to a lot of other sites with great instructors but just like how Brian paces us through with his lessons.. not ridiculously hard courses and never too easy..so yes always look forward to these fun monthly challenges too. and I must say you too doing a great job making this a great site for all. cheers!

Sunburst John

[Bryce-AKguitar]

@sunburst: Thanks John!

-Bryce
Anchorage, Alaska

[Jeff Y]

Awesome!

[Debra]

Bryce,
I love this idea! Thank you both for investing in the accomplishments of the ActiveMelody members! Mmm, what could that surprise be?
Cheers, Debra

[richard t]

I think the surprise is a trip to the crossroads!

[Vojtech]

Great motivation Bryce!

Now that broken camera of mine HAS to go for repairs 🙂

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[Lights]

charjo wrote:

This is going to practically pay for my membership. Oooh, can the 12 challenge surprise be a trip to Nashville to jam with Brian!
John

I heard that is trip to Thailand 🙂

[Lights]

sunburst wrote:

count me in too Bryce, I am happy as premium member,enjoy every lesson Brian ..good and plenty for all levels of participants.. even before I joined as premium couple seasons prior i watched and learned a lot from this site. And I been to a lot of other sites with great instructors but just like how Brian paces us through with his lessons.. not ridiculously hard courses and never too easy..so yes always look forward to these fun monthly challenges too. and I must say you too doing a great job making this a great site for all. cheers!

Totally agree with John(sunburst)!

[Patrick van Rijn]

Maybe the European members can charter a private jet to visit the jamboree! Will solve the problem of obliged and risky stashing of our beloved guitars in the plane onto the suitcases also…

Anyway, J like both the t-shirt game and the jamboree idea!

Regards,

Patrick

[6stringer Pete]

Lights wrote:

charjo wrote:

This is going to practically pay for my membership. Oooh, can the 12 challenge surprise be a trip to Nashville to jam with Brian!
John

I heard that is trip to Thailand

Thailand is much closer to me, do like the idea. 🙂

The melody of the notes is what expresses the art of music . 🙂 6stringerPete

It really is all about ”melody”. The melody comes from a language from our heart. Our heart is the muscle in music harmony. The melody is the sweetness that it pumps into our musical thoughts on the fretboard. 🙂 Pete

Pete
Moderator

[Duncan]

Hi – a little confused on this – 6 vs 12 submissions in 12 months.

Is this correct:

6 submissions in 12 months = Standard Active Melody shirt + self satisfaction
12 submissions in 12 months = Special Challenge Champion shirt + more self satisfaction

Thanks!
(FYI – I’m not submitting these just for a shirt, but for the self satisfaction and/or more self satisfaction)

Duncan

[Bryce-AKguitar]

Yes, you are correct Duncan.

You only get 1 shirt per 12 month so if you are going for a challenge Champion Shirt, request your shirt at the end of 12 months.

-Bryce
Anchorage, Alaska

[Paddyboy]

I’m so glad you don’t sell the T-shirts! Would kind of make earning one irrelevant!
Pat F

“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”

[Billy]

Paddyboy wrote:

I’m so glad you don’t sell the T-shirts! Would kind of make earning one irrelevant!
Pat F

Mine is a bought one Pat..

..Billy..

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[Paddyboy]

Bam! looks like I hurt someone’s feelings without meaning to. Sorry Billy. Hey, It looks great on ya. I hope mine fits. lol

“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”

[Billy]

Paddyboy wrote:

Bam! looks like I hurt someone’s feelings without meaning to. Sorry Billy. Hey, It looks great on ya. I hope mine fits. lol

No, no hurt feelings kiddo. was just showing that there once was an option to buy. Different colours to the T’s you guys earn through the challenges.

Enjoy your new T..

..Billy..

[Bryce-AKguitar]

I like to think of the gray ones as limited editions. They are quite collectible and rare.

It’s like getting the T-shirt of the band before they got famous.

Hang on to that shirt Billy! In a couple of year you can put it on eBay and retire! 😉

-Bryce
Anchorage, Alaska

[Paddyboy]

Bryce, do we have color choices? AND I’ve been very careful about the sizing choice but you know how T-shirts can be. What if I need to exchange my XL (OMG, I hope not) for an XXL? can I?

“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”

[Bryce-AKguitar]

Hi Pat! No color choices at this time.

-Bryce
Anchorage, Alaska

[Paddyboy]

Thanks Bryce…. I edited my post. how bout returns for larger size if necessary?

“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”

[Bryce-AKguitar]

No returns unless the shirt is defective. Here is the sizing charts for the tshirts.

-Bryce
Anchorage, Alaska

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[sunburst]

Im extra large ,, iuf you still are doing shirt thing here Bryce,, you been behind stage here so thought to ask how you going here be it member or moderator at Active Melody,, hope all is well in Alaska!

Sunburst John

[Geeetar crazy]

With or without the t shirt challenge we should all get together anyway…..

Cheers
Glenn

[6stringer Pete]

I think when we get them we should post a picture of it. Like Active Melody in Germany, America, China, England and so on.

The melody of the notes is what expresses the art of music . 🙂 6stringerPete

It really is all about ”melody”. The melody comes from a language from our heart. Our heart is the muscle in music harmony. The melody is the sweetness that it pumps into our musical thoughts on the fretboard. 🙂 Pete

Pete
Moderator

[sunburst]

Brian, are we participants in the tee shirt challenge suppose to email Bryce? just seen a reminder in latest March challenge rules.. wasn’t sure if Bryce is still a coordinator for the monthly challenges..tia

Sunburst John

[DougE]

When I got mine I sent an email to Brian. He said his wife is now ordering them. I agree these instructions need updating.

-Doug

[sunburst]

DougE wrote:

When I got mine I sent an email to Brian. He said his wife is now ordering them. I agree these instructions need updating.

I honestly don’t mind, if Brian is offering tee shirts to participants he does enough for meas it goes here.. in fact, I would rather he donate my shirt to a charity if I have the option.. either way , i’m grateful for the site and weekly lessons.. it was just the reminder thing in the March challenge.. should be updated..didn’t think Bryce would have anything to do with particpating challenge notifications either Doug, thanks,btw 304 fun lesson too.

Sunburst John

[Brian]

Hey John, shoot me an email and I can take care of the shirt for you – brian (at) activemelody (dot) com

[sunburst]

Brian wrote:

Hey John, shoot me an email and I can take care of the shirt for you – brian (at) activemelody (dot) com

Thanks Brian, I just thought out loud/posted because I really just want to give thanks , just as you did that time donating to charity. I have plenty tee shirts to donate and as for the challenge shirt, i have two already and just grateful for the gifted shirts as a committed participant. This is my wish and thanks for lessons and kind response. I wish for you to donate my shirt to the charity you mentioned here and moved me me man,, that was so cool donating that guitar,, I have dozens of shirts to donate size large that don’t fit lol.. but idea to donate is so cool so this is what I’ll do too! thanks buddy , ep304 very fun,,played along this morning,, worked late today,,going to get into it again..good stuff as always! happy Easter Brian

Sunburst John

[Ian C]

ive just joined can I do this .

ian

[Israel U]

Nice challenge. Thumb up!

Israel

[Jonathan Amos]

I emailed Bryce in November and again in December but heard nothing. Perhaps he’s not helping out with the t-shirts anymore. I’ll try Brian this time.

Jonathan
Hokkaido, Japan

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