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Hi Active Melody family!
It’s time for the June, 2025 Site Member Challenge
From time to time I think it’s good to do these “light bulb” challenges where you showcase a lick, or idea that has been a huge breakthrough for you.
In this challenge, you will be creating a composition that uses harmonized 3rds. You can play a standalone composition, or use them with any jam track – you could even create your own jam track if you want.
This harmony idea comes from lesson ML113. If you haven’t watched it yet, I’d recommend watching the video to understand where those harmonies come from (how they connect to chord shapes).
If you aren’t comfortable creating your own composition, feel free to play the song example in ML113.
The submission date for this challenge will be Sunday, July 13 – you can start submitting Friday, July 11
**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, July 11, through Sunday, July 13, 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 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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Being summer season, it may be difficult for a lot of us to participate, but I think I figured something out that will allow me to deliver something.
As Brian says, harmonized 3rds are sounding so good and can add so much interesting nuances to your music , it’s a must learn (at least for me). I’m already excited to see what everyone is going to come up with!
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