Drone Zone improv – Niels

[sebs]

I enjoyed that Niels, full of expression. Thanks for posting.

[Niels]

Thank you @sebs 🙂

Much appreciated.

[Niels]

I understand that the need for simplicity has collected all video submissions here in the “Play for Us!” forum, but I really miss the “Wednesday Solo Zone” one.

I think the improvisation part of Tony’s teaching methodology is important – after all it is central in every week’s five Daily Practices, but at the same time I am aware that only a minority of TAC members are interested in working actively with the improvisations.
Many are not ready (I wasn’t in my first three years in TAC), many have done them several times and are taking a break, so my experience from submitting improvs for the last 30 weeks is that between 8 and 16 people react.

In the Solo Zone forum we could comfortably see the last four weeks of improvs without bothering people not interested, but this time I have learned that submitting an improv later than the rest of the usual suspects, in the middle of contributions from Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday VOMs makes it sink like a stone down to page 2, where very few people go 😂

[dr_dave]

That was brilliant, Niels. Sorry that I have been less participative.

The move to de-emphasize the forums and get people to use them less has probably worked brilliantly if I am a representative example. I have written a small fraction of what I used to write and the site overhaul is actually causing me to lose a lot of interest in the whole guitar thing. I am playing less and unfortunately not enjoying things as much. I doubt that’s the result they were seeking. I still enjoyed your improv, but it ia not as easy to find my way to content I like and I am consequently not inclined to put much effort into poking around the site. I’d like to see the metrics on how effectively they have slowed the forum use. I think that was their main concern.

[Niels]

Thank you, @dr_dave for your kind words ❤

I am afraid that you are not the only one of the people I normally communicate with that have significantly decreased their activity in TAC social media.

I have posted my previous comment to [email protected], hoping that they might somehow facilitate working with the improvs with a forum.
After all – there is a whole forum for TACiversaries, and until now it contains five entries 🙂