PIAD is, media wise, a mix of mp3 files and flash video files. These can be played on any PC based, laptop, net top, and android devices. These files can also be played on most media player devices. Certainly, the mp3 files can be podded on any mp3 player.
I would suggest a larger than phone sized screen for the visual files because their purpose is to illustrate finger movement and positioning.
The files, as you receive the file folder, are reached from the home page of the folder showing the guitar player and the file elements of the folder strung down across the torso of the guitar player and the guitar he is playing.
A certain logic exists in the positions and relationships of those icons that indicate the progression of the course.
The course comprises 12 video files and 7 audio files. The space required for storage is minimal, less than 325MB or about a third of a gigabyte.
The instructional files whether mp3 or video are concise and eliminate the nonrelevant. Some of the mp3 files are more narrative and discursive to allow for a more descriptive monologue.
To enhance the accomplishment of its descriptive name, Play In A Day, one video is entitled “Let Me At It”. Imagining the person approaching his installed course, I picture a kid unwrapping toys at Christmas. So, I know the prospective guitar player wants an easy to get into lesson that can show immediate results. That works. That excitement somewhat over and seeing all the other lessons to go through, the new guitar player will proceed to pick through the lessons in a fashion that indicates one is thinking, “hmmmmmm this might require a little work.”
And it will. But it is all a refinement of the first day’s experience.
As I mentioned elsewhere, the course has more to it than the first bundle of audio and video files.
Through email and chat talk an ongoing dialogue between teacher and student continues for a long time.
My newsletter continues to arrive for a long time. The newsletter contains information that is best consumed by reading since it contains diagrams and directional pictures. But, newsletters supplements are generated as well. These are often mp3 files that contain instructional and narrative discussion that shed additional light on guitar playing, musicianship, etc.
As I also mention elsewhere, at the appropriate moment, I deliver to a second part of the course that is free. I deliver this free based on your not distributing the files of the course to others. I deliver this second part when I know from several methods of testing the water that it is time for you to advance. Not to fret. From the basic course and all the other material you will receive, you will be more than an adequate player if you want to be. In a sense, very apt students may be reaching for the second part and beginning to figure it out about the time they receive it.
I look forward to sharing what I have created with you.
One caution. I would not spend a lot of time explaining how you are playing guitar to others. People knowledgeable about the guitar will figure it out and kibbitz and criticize. I suggest you let the guitar do the talking. Do not waste time in fruitless discussions.
One other comment. Music is eternal. Intelligent music lovers are listening to music and instruments hundred of years old. Especially in this time of what appears to me as a relative musical desert, intelligent music lovers and musicians are reaching back to the beginnings of the twentieth century and from there making music history treks arriving at today. Many people are only now realizing what a heritage of brilliant musicians have created such a wealth of styles and musical examples. And we will take a look at some of these as time goes by.
Thanks for listening,
CanDoJack
Play In A Day Guitar 