Tim here, news for you. If you are on our email list you should receive the below email shortly
Update as of July 6 Story below aired on National public radio (no ghosts there are millions of listeners though)
YouTube Guitar Lessons Pulled in Copyright Spat
by Frank Langfitt
Morning Edition, July 6, 2007 · Thousands of guitar students lost a valuable resource last week. The most popular guitar teacher on YouTube saw his more than 100 videos yanked from the site
This Story Appeared yesterday Sunday july 8th, 2007 in the San Diego Union tribune click on the below link to read
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/n...7m8guitar.html
Update July 9th we were interviewed by the BBC Here is the story click link below to listen and read
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/pr...e_guitar.shtml
Update July 25th Any French Translators Here?
http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/high-tech/0,...e-stones-.html
Quick update We had drove a large number of new subscribers to youtube on Friday June 30th
when we sent out the email below to our mailing list of loyal fans
This created the so called Ghost Subscribers
Here is a cool video a Fan of Next Level Guitar made to support US
ROCK ON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkaiWGJTlJI
it explains what happened. As i explained in a earlier post there was always a chance the video song lessons could get pulled they are NOT a part of premium membership.
David and I will come up with another technique to post videos on youtube in the style of popular songs they may be different chords etc but we will keep rocking the Free Stuff
Thanks Tim
Important please click subscribe and rate our vidz with stars please
Here is the email below
Hello everyone, David Taub and Tim Gilberg here from next level guitar with an update to all the good people regarding our Youtube videos status.
As many of you may have seen, our videos are no longer available on youtube. Due to third party complaint Youtube has suspended our account claiming copyright infringement.
While Tim and I are taking some time to decide on our response, we wanted to share with all the good people what is going on and we want to ask you for a HUGE favor. We want to continue to bring our free guitar instructional videos to all the good people all over the world.
So we have created a new youtube channel to do just this. Slightly different format, (read between the lines here), but will still be free and get you rocking out in the fastest and most efficient manner.
Please do us a huge favor and go to this link,
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=rockongoodpeople , and just click the orange subscribe button. That will help get us back in the top rankings and continue to bring you all the free guitar lessons we are known for. We so appreciate if you can help us with this.As you know, we never charge for song lessons - all our song lessons are always free and will always be that way.
Our position is what we do on youtube is teach thousands of people all over the world how to play guitar and help to bring endless joy to people's lives through the gift of music. We also feel what we do is great for the industry and the economy as it gets people jazzed about learning and playing guitar, checking out gear, and even purchasing songs. However, some hold different opinions which had led to the youtube complaint and the account suspension.
As always Tim and I are dedicated and 100% committed to making nextlevelguitar.com the best guitar learning resource available today and this has not changed - not one bit.
You can still go to
www.nextlevelguitar.com and enjoy all the lessons that you have been enjoying since we started. So we are still rocking and rolling and will never stop teaching the art of guitar to the good people all over the world. Stay tuned for more info on the youtube scenario, visit our full-on teaching website at
www.nextlevelguitar.com, write us your thoughts and feelings and post in our guitar forum.Thanks for listening and for your support and please help us to continue bringing the best guitar instruction on the net today.
Thank you!
ROCK ON!
David Taub & Tim Gilberg
Update as of Sunday night