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I just wanted to respond to the “old folk songs with twangy voices and fast picking banjos” reference. I hope you weren’t generalizing the whole catalog of songs in the daily challenge rotation. I just wanted to make it clear to anyone who hasn’t been in the program for a full year that there is quite a lot of variety and not very much twangy stuff, but there is an emphasis on blues because of the blues’ awesomeness and their value for teaching guitar.
Hotel Calif, for example is not public domain, and there are countless other songs protected by copyright in the collection. Each one meets a purpose, and while some are not everyone’s choice genre/artist, I can think of a few that I would never sing around my family (due to the lyrics), there aren’t any banjo tunes and I find it quite ingenious how there can be so many little lessons in each selection.