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I agree, there are now fewer people posting solo or improvised playing over the backtrack @SherryH
than in the past. I understand many starting players are shy or some
members aren’t even really interested in trying to become an improviser,
and it’s more fun for many to learn a few chords and sing a favorite
song, which is great. It may take a while before starting players decide
to post improvs or go over the scale with the backtrack playing. As @Loraine
wrote, many of the older members who used to improvise seem to have
moved on or are now more interested in other social media interactions
jam nights, etc…, so there are fewer more experienced members that
decide to post solos… 🙁 One other reason is also maybe that finding
the improv posts may not be as easy as it used to be when there was a
“solo zone” bin or forum that members could check out. If everything
gets jumbled into the same Forum from playing cover songs, to someone
posting an original tune to live “zoom” jams in the same forum with
occasional Wednesday solo improvs, the solo lesson videos are maybe 5%
of them now at the most…. The improvs may quickly disappear from the
“newer list” of posts, since a new reply to an old post becomes the
newest post and many of the members are more likely interested in
listening to others singing known songs or hearing some creative new
tunes from some of us. The repeated replies sent to people’s posts who
with reason enjoy hearing members belt out some awesome tunes, will send
newly posted improv posts to the end of the queue and off the first
page of the forum very quickly. If there is no dedicated “home” for the
improvs, which are essentially the main way to learn guitar playing
directly through TAC, the few improvs posted that may also be less often
replied to by most members will probably often get lost in the mix
within the diverse playing/performing posts that all make up the “Play
for us!” forum. As an “older ” member of TAC, I do miss the “solo zone”
and quite a few of the members t🎶