Here's a partial index...
https://bluesguitarunleashed.com/fo...griffs-solos-where-they-work-protected.12812/
Addition suggestions are welcome. Jus put them in a format that I can actually use:
Course, Solo, Song, Member ID, Notes
Thanks Mike for the spreadsheets! When they started to put in the Key, that's where I'll start. Very helpful to have the key for me.
As to suggestions regarding searching, OK will do in next couple of days. It's frustrating nowadays to be in a site where one can not search. I feel being able to put the song/riff/class title would be a primary search benefit. Then in general, looking up styles by keyword: Delta, Memphis, Texas, Chicago (style), 12 Bar, etc., would really help. I also search acoustic blues but avoid non-pick finger style so it would be great to label the acoustic blues keyword parameters as finger style or pick. Of course the word Solo is useful although I do see that word in the drop down main menu. I'm not even sure if there is a difference between Riff-Solo-Lead definitions. Oh yeah, the keywords, fast or slow, unless it's easy for you to have BPM? You had mentioned that Griff always starts a lesson in G but it would be really great to keyword search jam tracks by key (I gravitate to E and A, E mainly for acoustic for the open strings.) Some days I just want to work on my rhythm so being able to keyword search that word would be nice. Or when I don't feel like expending the brain power for a lesson, pop open a beer and keyword search: Blues, 12 bar shuffle, Key E, slow, just to jam with. Presently I have to "work" to find them individually. Friction.
I've been a member of about 6-8 online sites and some have this fantastic feature of when you log back on you can see what classes you've been in and then it takes you to where you left off (if you didn't complete it), kind of like when you sign back into Netflix it takes you to where you left off.
Here's an idea, you and Griff sit down, pretend you've
never been to the BGU site before, look at in from the moccasins of a new visitor, in which case you will feel overwhelmed. All the competitor sites cost about $30, a month so if you sign up for 6 for a cost around $180, instead of recreating the wheel you can
cherry pick the best features that make their sites user friendly and categorize their content efficiently for the searcher. TrueFire claims to have 40K classes, if true I can't fathom how they keep track of them! I'd suggest: JamPlay, GuitarTricks, TrueFire, ActiveMelody, Fender, I forget the others at the moment.
As to the daunting task of going through every lesson, thanks to the pandemic you probably can hire geeks who play guitar very cheaply to go through them, classify all the keywords based on the parameters you choose. Presently what you have, which I experience as a newbie here, is the member has to drill down into almost every icon to see if what's there and if it is what they would like to learn. There's a fear that if one doesn't explore each icon (except the OBVIOUS titles one doesn't want to deal with), that he'll miss something important. When coming across an exciting class to take it'd be super groovy to be able to check it, or bookmark it, click as a Favorite, etc. to come back to it.
The one benefit you have with having the site being opaque is that the user will say, screw it, I might as well sign up for a year since it will take that long to get through all this! That's where I'm at, I'll probably sign up for the year before my 3rd monthly payment kicks in to save money. I usually stick with a site for 1-3 months but your site (and TrueFire) has sooooo much content a year is needed (except TrueFire is for the very advanced). And as I mentioned before I'd like to buy and download individual jam tracks instead of dealing with the Golden Ticket, but that's another subject.
See ya,
Ned