ANNOUNCING the First-Ever tonebase Community VIRTUAL HANGOUT!
Hello, my dear fellow community members! 
During the ongoing virtuosity challenge I asked you whether you would be interested in a virtual hangout with fellow community members - a place where we can all be on the same video call together.
The idea garnered incredible support 
with 95% of people in our livestream voting "yes" to the initiative! Therefore, we are organizing it! 
let's do this!
When?
This Monday (May 24), we will all hop on a Google Meet call together and get to know each other a little better.
Here is the starting time in some popular time zones:
- 12 pm Pacific / 3 pm Eastern
- 8 pm United Kingdom
- 9 pm Central Europe (Spain / France / Germany / Italy / Sweden / Poland / etc.)
- 10 pm Southeastern Europe (Romania / Greece / Egypt etc.)
The call will start one hour after the Virtuosity Challenge Watch Party on Monday! It is going to be open to all community members, not only challenge participants.
If you comment below letting me know you'd like an email invite, the starting time will be automatically converted into your own time zone!
Join here:
Google Meet joining info:
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/rjx-brir-nkd
Or dial: (US) +1 419-718-1372 PIN: 527 308 373#
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/rjx-brir-nkd?pin=9133885534264
Invite by email:
Would you like to receive an invite to this event straight in your email inbox? Then reply to this thread below ( ↓ ) and I'll make an invite pop into the email address you already use for tonebase.
No need to put your address in your comment! It's already associated with your account. Just let me know you want the invite and I'll make it come!
Etiquette
The meeting will not be recorded, nor livestreamed anywhere.
There is no obligation to have your camera or mic on. I certainly hope that some of you will do so, but there is no pressure to do so whatsoever.
You can be a "fly on the wall" - in the call, but never un-muted. You can contribute by just writing in the call chat! That's fine too.
One thing: try to keep yourself muted if you're not talking - this will prevent barking dogs, fire trucks, helicopters, etc. from being broadcasted into everyone's ears. No pressure if you forget though! I can help with this too, as the host of the call.
Who can come?
Any member of the tonebase Community! You do not have to have taken part in the Virtuosity Challenge to be invited.
What will we be talking about?
Anything we want! Yourselves, your journey with the guitar, your experience in tonebase, your videos you sent in for our challenges, general guitar and music topics, etc. We might even play some "get to know each other" games, if we have time!
What do I need to join?
Any internet-capable device. A computer, a phone, a tablet, a laptop - anything.
Being a Google Meet hangout, you can join right from your browser. No need to install any additional software at all!
If your device has a microphone, camera, or both, that's great! Then you'll be able to be seen and heard by the others, should you so desire.
Where is the link?
The link is above, go to where it says "Video Call Link" or just click this text.
Questions? Comments?
Reply below and let me know!
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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for joining us in this first tonebase hangout this week! I was so happy to see so many of you there, to hear your voices and to listen to your stories.
Given the success of this first event, we are definitely going to organize others in the near future! Therefore, I come to you with this question:
What future direction would you like these virtual hangouts to go into?
Feel free to either let me know in this thread, or to complete the survey I made.
The survey (<- click here to access) will be going out to every tonebase subscriber on Sunday, and I really wanted to give those of you who were there a chance to answer first!
If you could fill it out, that would be great! This will be shared with the rest of the team, and based on its results, as well as on your responses here in the forum, we will move ahead.
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Hi, Mircea!
I can't open the survey. Writes: "Permission required The form is only available in the corporate domain of the owner." -
Mircea same here as Bogdan ... the form needs permission.
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Bogdan Blaise Laflamme Oh! I am so sorry about that, no idea how that became the default setting. I've changed it now, and everybody should be able to access it! Can you try again?
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Mircea it works... completed!
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Mircea Yes, it works!
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Blaise Laflamme Bogdan thank you guys!
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Mircea please send me the invite and thank to you and Tonebase for doing this!
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Blaise Laflamme Done! Email invite is out.
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Mircea Thanks, now I'm sure about the time!
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Blaise Laflamme Perfect!
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I would love to attend, but that timeframe won't work for me. Obviously no time would be good for everyone. Once the school year ends (I'm a teacher) I will have a much more open schedule, so I hope they can continue into the summer.
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Eric Yeah, that makes sense, Eric - if this first one goes well, perhaps we can turn these into a regular thing!
[We could even have people from similar time zones doing their own hangs at times that work for them, perhaps in their evening, when most people are back from work!]
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Hi Mircea, wonderful initiative
, but I cannot participate
, the first problem is: I don't speak English
, the second: they gave me a small intervention (with the Laser) on a vocal chord and they advised me to speak little and softly
, at the I'll be there anyway
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Giuseppe Gasparini hi Giuseppe! I hope you have a speedy recovery from your laser surgery!
If you do want to join, you can be there without talking! I expect many of our users would be shy at first - it's totally fine to be in the meeting and never unmute yourself.
(That being said, of course, the language barrier could still cause issues.)
Whatever you do, we'll see each other around tonebase Live!
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Giuseppe Gasparini Mi sembra che parli bene l'Inglese, Giuseppe (o al meno scrivi bene).
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Eric Thanks Eric, but the credit goes to the translator
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Giuseppe Gasparini I hope you will get well soon. Although I can read and write well, I have some difficulties when speaking English. Unless I drink a few glasses of wine, I am not sure I can speak, but gladly participate in chat window. Looking forward to seeing you.
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Gokce Turkmendag Gokce Turkmendag Thanks Gokce
, I signed up for Tonebase and listen to all the live shows to learn to understand English, but it's very difficult
, I was enrolled in Classical guitar Corner and participated in many live shows, when they spoke to me I seemed fake
however it may be that I pass by to say hello -
Giuseppe Gasparini, @Gokce Turkmendag - My English is not bad, but the translator often saves my head. A bottle of beer helps too
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Hi Mircea, this is a really very nice idea. But I am not sure if I will be able to participate. I think it would be very nice to talk a little with the people of the group. Igor, Eric, Barnek, Daniel, David, Giuseppe and his bravos !, Emma, Dennie, Joosje, Debbie, Gokse...etc, sorry for the bad spelling of so many different names, but I found the group very nice...Anyway I will try to be at 20 PM by the watch party, where I do not know if we can see each other there and say hello directly!
See you on monday at 20 PM and may be later also...(?). Thanks for the invitation.
Nora
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Nora Torres-Nagel looking forward to seeing you out there. And all the others of the group. You’re absolutely right, Nora, it’s such a nice group! Happy you joined in for this one. It will be real fun, Monday. Mircea will be our perfect host. I hope many will join., we shared a lot of nice moments musicaux already, can’t wait to meet...
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Nora Torres-Nagel Hi Nora! It would be great to see you there! I'm looking forward to this quite a lot, myself.
Thank you so much for your kind words, joosje ! Looking forward to seeing you there, too!
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Nora Torres-Nagel I will be happy to see you and the others on Monday, I hope you can make it.
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Giuseppe Gasparini Nora Torres-Nagel I think that'll be just fun to hangout a bit and see/talk each other... and Mircea will for sure be able to speak to us in any of our own foreign language!
I'm just blown away by his ability to switch languages and accents all the way
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