Locals FAQ

Yes, you can cancel your subscription at anytime, and your subscription will stop auto-renewing at the end of the current billing cycle.

You pay for each month up front, so the minimum commitment is one month.

Currently, we have one membership level. The Nickel membership plan costs $19.99/month (USD).

TXBA Locals is a subscription program that allows you to view all TXBA courses online using our Pro Player tool.

There’s a members-only section on TXBA called Locals. Inside Locals we have a tool that lets you explore all the courses (and every other type of content on TXBA) all in one super fast browser. You can access it here.

Right now, we’re averaging about one new Mini-Course per month, and a new Full Course once or twice per year. This will dramatically increase when our new studio is finished in late 2015.

You’ll immediately have access to any new courses that we release while you are a member.

Everything

There are 3 primary benefits of being a TXBA Local:

• Watch every course on TXBA, and new courses added while you’re a member.
• Watch anything on the site using our Pro Player with looping, slow motion, and interactive tablature.
• Save 10% if you decided to buy any courses to keep.

Yes. If you join TXBA Locals, you can buy courses (and you’ll get a slight discount).

Why would you buy a course if you’re already paying a subscription fee to watch everything? You you may find a course that you really like so much that you want to keep it forever, even if you cancel your membership.

No. Anyone can buy courses, whether they are a member of TXBA Locals or not.

Kind of, but what you’re really paying for is the ability to watch them online using our Pro Player. The more courses you already own, the less valuable a TXBA Locals membership is.

It’s kind of like renting a movie vs buying it. If you buy a course from TXBA, you own it and can watch it forever. When you join TXBA Locals, it’s like you’re renting everything we have for one monthly price. When you stop paying the subscription fee, you don’t keep anything.

Absolutely. You can sign-in to your TXBA Locals membership from all your computers and mobile devices.

This FAQ is about the Pro Player, the tool that members of our TXBA Locals program use to watch courses online.

No. The Pro Player is a part of the TXBA website, so everything happens right inside your browser.

The Pro Player is a tool that we built into our website that organizes all the materials for a course into one window for you. It has some advanced learning tools like slow motion, looping, chapter markers, and interactive tablature.

It means that everything you need to watch the course is right on our website. You don’t have to install any software, download any files, or keep track of anything. You simply find a course you want to watch, and start watching it right on the site.

Yes, but with a few limitations. Most smartphones will force videos to play in fullscreen mode. That means that our looping, slow-motion, and chapter controls can’t be accessed while the video is playing. However, they will play just fine.

Yes. The Pro Player should work great on any modern tablet.

The video playback might not be smooth if your connection is not fast enough, or if your computer isn’t powerful enough to play the higher resolution (HD) versions of the videos. In either case, try choosing a lower resolution (480p, 360p, or 270p) which should fix the problem.

We provide our videos with several different levels of quality. If the video looks slightly blurry or grainy, check to make sure the resolution is not set to 270p or 360p. These are really low quality versions that should only be used as a last resort. 720p is usually the best quality to use.

Yes. Slow Motion will work on any computer or tablet, but will not work well on smartphones because smartphones usually force the video to play in fullscreen mode which covers up the slow motion controls.

Chapters are predefined “bookmarks” in videos that allow you to skip right to a specific part. The Pro Player has a chapter button that displays a list of any chapters we’ve created for the video you’re watching.

Looping works for video and audio. You can also create loops in the tablature viewer by selecting a section of the tablature which will cause it to loop automatically.

Yes.

All the materials for a course can be viewed in the Pro Player. This includes:

• Videos
• MP3s
• Interactive Tablature
• PDF Diagrams / Exercises

No. Flash is terrible. The Pro Player uses HTML 5 video and audio.

The Pro Player will work on any computer with a modern browser. We recommend:

• Google Chrome (Mac or Windows)
• Safari (Mac only)
• Mozilla Firefox (Mac or Windows)
• Internet Explorer (Windows only)

The ProPlayer is an online tool for viewing videos, backing tracks, tablature and PDFs. It is part of the TXBA website and members of our TXBA Locals program use it to view our courses online.