Hi Fanny, @FannyJustinGuitar
I enrolled for Blim Class 3 yesterday 12th June and everything seems to be working except the Blim community.
I get a “Error Embedding” message when I click the discussion tab under the videos in Unit 0 and a “Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private” message when I click “View full discussion”.
Or am I jumping the gun and the Blim community isn’t open yet?
I’d say you’re an eager bunny and the BLIM C3 section hasn’t been setup yet on the forum. Enjoy the course.
Yeah, you’re probably right. I’ll stop chomping at the bit!
Anyway….looks like Justin wants me to do something else first…
Whoa.
Hold your horses there cowboy!!
Hi David
I enrolled as well and also have started on Unit 0, and noticed the same. I have had a couple of emails with Fanny to sort out a payment issue, and asked when BLIM 3 Community area.
She said :- *"Yes, there will be! A Community space and 2 WhatsApp groups. 
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We’re setting those up right now and will send an email communication when it’s live! "
We get free access to ‘Practical Music Theory’ initially I could only access Grade 1 & 2 for free after enrolling on it, but took a look this morning and all are now available me. I need to refresh my brain on the theory.
Having built a few websites I am not sure but it looks like JustinGuitar.com is built using Wordpress or a similar tool. If it’s Wordpress they can control access to specific areas by individual logon ID’s so the admin will have to give access to certain areas to everyone as they sign up to BLIM 3. Some of it may be automated but that can be a tricky thing to do, as I found out when creating a Car Club site.
I did my ‘Record Yourself Now’ yesterday, which took some time to set up and experiment with. I used GarageBand(DAW), PositiveGrid - RIFF (a great guitar to USB interface IMO - See RIFF here well worth looking into if you need such a device and not expensive) and I simultaneously recorded video on my Mac using PhotoBooth.
Not sure if others have posted stuff about this, but this may help:-
You can import the backing track and video into GarageBand as a tracks and record the guitar onto another track. When you record in Garage band the backing track will play to the output selected and you play along.
You start the video recording first then goto GarageBand and start recording, and stop both when at the end of the backing track. You may need to trim the start of the video clip first and then import it into GarageBand. You now need to sync the Video sound to the recorded guitar track(not hard), once done you switch off the Video sound and then create a new video from GarageBand. By doing this you will get a good level of sound quality. It sounds complex:rofl: but once you’ve got it then it is quite easy.
I used to work for Apple in a Tech. Support role and also used Windows kit many moons ago (which I hate). If someone needs some simple guidance let me know and I will try and help.
I will be brave and post my recording for feedback once all is live for BLIM3, and hide in the corner waiting for feedback.
FAO BLIM 3 cohort …
The closed Community area has been created already …
Access will be restricted to BLIM 3 students only and there already exists a sub-group within the Community to add the names of all BLIMmers of Class 3. However, the group has not yet been populated with those names.
There are also two Whatsapp groups for BLIM 3 ready to be populated with those who wish to use that platform.
Thanks Richard.
I guess it will all become available in time.
How do the WhatsApp groups work?
Not sure I like the idea of my phone number being visible to a large number of people who I don’t know!
Hello Adrian.
Sounds like the Team are beavering away to bring the Blim Community to us!
I haven’t done any recording yet.
When I read through peoples recording setups my brain fogs over with all the tech stuff!
All I have is my old beat up iPhone. I play backing tracks on it to play guitar over. It won’t play bt and record on Voice Memo at the same time.
Video is a no no! Me and cameras have a long standing hate hate relationship!!
The Whatsapp group is entirely optional … another place where announcements are made and the chat area is an informal chat area. The team have decided to keep them going as some people have used them for BLIM 1 and BLIM 2 - in addition to using the COmmunity.
Hi
@Richard_close2u Since I don’t see them now, just to confirm: members won’t see the BLIM cohort categories in the community page until some time later?
Hello and welcome to the community and to BLIM.
The live launch was delayed due to tech issues and happens on 17 June.
I envisage that the BLIM 3 community area will open at or soon after the rescheduled live session.
Is the community space for BLIM 3 up yet. I am trying to get all my ducks in a row before it kicks off.
Yeah, it’s up and running, Tom.
Click the menu bars at the top of your screen and you’ll find it in the drop down menu.
It is still not there for me. Have sent a message through the chat
