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Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Feb 5 2009, 12:55 PM

Hello,

I am happy to present a very nice, traditional piece of music which Dejan has prepared for us. It is highly "doable" - so definitely worth checking out if you are new to the acoustic guitar. You will realise that having bassline and a melody going on at the same time doesn't necessarily need to be extremely hard. It is however very rewarding as it can make a single guitar sound like an ensemble.

We call this an exclusive bonus - because it is the very first complete lesson with the latest version of the player - try watching one of the close-ups in the the slow parts, with quality set to high in fullscreen more!

If no new major bugs are revealed - we will encourage all instructors to move to this new player/format as soon as possible - in other words all future updates will eventually be in this format.

Having said this - I would be very grateful if you let us a know about any bug you find (big or small). If possible provide info about your browser, flash version (right click on the player, then click "about...") and a screenshot.

Thanks Dejan for your killer lessons and daring "testing" temperament!

PS Don't forget to reload the page if you don't see any video.

Posted by: utak3r Feb 5 2009, 01:04 PM

ok, Kris, this stuff is really awesome
Watching the lesson is a real pleasure now! And those litte bugs has gone, it works all-right

Excellent work, and really nice lesson from Dejan!

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Feb 5 2009, 01:09 PM

Works fine on my PC as well, great job!

Posted by: Mandos Feb 5 2009, 01:18 PM

Works fine and the close-ups in fullscreen is awesome.

Posted by: Marek Rojewski Feb 5 2009, 01:25 PM

Reporting no bugs in my firefox:)

Posted by: Toni Suominen Feb 5 2009, 01:41 PM

Works fine for me, great job!

Posted by: Emir Hot Feb 5 2009, 01:42 PM

Works OK here as well.

Posted by: Marcus Siepen Feb 5 2009, 01:55 PM

Works perfectly fine here too

PS: So all our next lessons should use this format too? I am just preparing a new one, what exatly is the format fpr widescreen now?

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Feb 5 2009, 02:10 PM

Works for me

Posted by: Pedja Simovic Feb 5 2009, 02:23 PM

Looks cool no problem on my computer !

Posted by: berko Feb 5 2009, 02:29 PM

No problems at all here (Firefox)! Beautiful piece, I love it!

Posted by: skennington Feb 5 2009, 02:41 PM

Works great for me as well. (Firefox) Love the full screen feature!

Posted by: Dejan Farkas Feb 5 2009, 02:48 PM

Thanks Kris and guys

I like the new player as well

Posted by: Fran Feb 5 2009, 02:59 PM

Awesome!

Works flawless at high quality here, all controls working, no zoom bug when full screened... amazing. Awesome job guys, this is a major improvement.

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Feb 5 2009, 03:06 PM

Thanks Fran - did you test it in IE?

Posted by: pat Feb 5 2009, 04:05 PM

Great job!
I always had problems with the new player (had to set quality low and stuff) but now everything works fine!!!

Posted by: Fran Feb 5 2009, 04:07 PM

Yup!

Posted by: Sergio Dorado Feb 5 2009, 04:15 PM

The high screen is really a great improvement. Amazing!

Posted by: playaxeman Feb 5 2009, 04:17 PM

Looks very very good!!

Good job this is.

Tested in Firefox 3.05

All went well. No problems at all.

Posted by: Matt23 Feb 5 2009, 04:49 PM

This looks really good. I would like it so that if you pause the video and move the slider to the beginning it stays paused but aprt from that I think the new player is great.

Posted by: David Wallimann Feb 5 2009, 04:53 PM

This is an awesome lesson and very cool new feature.
Quality is great and loading time quite acceptable!

Posted by: kaznie_NL Feb 5 2009, 05:24 PM

AWESOME!!!! When I had it on high quality full screen, it was super cool now you can really see what the instructor does, the close ups are cool. I... loooooooveeee the full screen option

EDIT: just viewed it non-full screen, it's ultra high qualitry now

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Feb 5 2009, 09:05 PM

It's a great relief to hear that this seems to be working well for everybody!

Posted by: Canis Feb 5 2009, 09:29 PM

I've noticed this with the newer videos as well. Other then that everything is just awesome

Posted by: Ctodd Feb 6 2009, 03:41 AM

hey, I hate to be that guy, but it won't work on my firefox

works fine in IE, but I recently started using firefox, and the video simply won't play. I did an update for firefox not too long ago too.

Not too big of a deal though, because I can just use IE

Posted by: Gerardo Siere Feb 6 2009, 04:58 AM

Works great, great job!

Posted by: Hammerhead Feb 6 2009, 06:41 AM

WOW... this is much better! Thank you

Hammerhead

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Feb 6 2009, 10:32 AM

Sounds like it could be something with your flash version, can you try downloading the most recent flash version here:
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
(click the link while using firefox)

...and let us know if it changes anything? Thanks!

Posted by: kaznie_NL Feb 6 2009, 03:39 PM

I foudn a tiny bug, on the small player, the lengt-wide isn't good. It looks a bit like a widescreen picture in a normal screen frame.

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Feb 6 2009, 03:41 PM

I wish this was a bug but isn't - the small player loads the widescreen video in 4:3 just as you said. We aren't really sure we will be developing the old player any further.

Posted by: Ctodd Feb 6 2009, 09:12 PM

Sweeeeeeeet,

works great now, thanks!

Posted by: Trond Vold Feb 7 2009, 01:26 AM

Awesome The fullscreen mode works great

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Feb 7 2009, 01:23 PM

Awesome! I am very glad it did it! Thanks for reporting back!

Posted by: kaznie_NL Feb 7 2009, 03:11 PM

Indeed, the time it takes to develop are probably more expensive then the advantages it gives The old player, as it is now works, just not perfect.

Posted by: GuitarMonkey Mar 2 2009, 01:51 AM

Works great. All the lessons should be like this. GREAT!

Posted by: Skalde Mar 2 2009, 10:27 PM

works fine with Opera

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Mar 6 2009, 04:04 PM

Almost all instructors have made the switch - we will still be seeing some of the old kind on the main page though (for yet ~ a couple of weeks).