Welcome, New Patrons!
Added 2023-10-01 13:00:01 +0000 UTCIf you’re new here, tell us a little about yourself: What brought you here? Where are you in your guitar journey, and what do you hope to accomplish while you’re here?
If you’re a seasoned Patron, please give our new members a warm welcome! Reply to new Patrons below if you share the same goals, or can relate to their journey. This community is made up of students of different skill levels from all around the world and interaction between students is an excellent way of learning and staying motivated.
If you missed your first welcome post, please feel free to jump on this one.
More helpful info for new patrons can be found on my Where To Start page.
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Welcome, Dave! Don't forget that you can ask anything you want at the weekly Office Hours - Thursdays at 10AM Pacific
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-10-11 00:06:07 +0000 UTCHey all! Happy to be here. I'm Dave, 41, from the UK. I took up guitar earlier this year and have been overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information on the Internet about what to learn in to play guitar, but no real order/direction of doing it. I stumbled across Scott's YouTube videos and his teaching style is so unique and the recommended lesson plan so straight forward, that I'm super enjoying learning theory and, more importantly, it's sinking in and quickly too! Looking forward to my guitar journey with you all.
Dave Parry
2023-10-10 23:11:59 +0000 UTCHi Scott, the web site is https://musicircle.net/ and this is their YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@musicircle7304. there is some amazing stuff in there and I 3D printed a version of their MusiCircle Tool which shows the 4,1,5,2,6,3,7 sequence in action and their videos explaining its origin, AKA the circle of 5ths etc, and its place in ancient history blew my mind.
Pete Dawkins
2023-10-03 21:31:55 +0000 UTCHi Pete! Welcome aboard! Glad to see you having fun with every aspect of guitar! Google gave me a few "The Music Circle" options. Which one were you thinking of? Sounds interesting!
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-10-02 22:04:11 +0000 UTCHi Daniel! Welcome. If you're at the beginning of your journey, I'd like you to think of my Patreon as a supplement to the typical stuff you might want to learn as a beginner. In other words, I try to lean into the stuff that I think is missing from a lot of typical guitar education, but I still think typical stuff is important!
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-10-02 21:59:30 +0000 UTCHi Jeffrey! Welcome (back) First off, if you're gigging that much and having a good time, you're definitely NOT faking it! It's kind of like being able to speak a language without being able to read it. You're DEFINITELY communicating. But I get what you're saying - thanks for joining and I hope my combo of "chalkboard" and guitar cam videos helps you with the visualization you're hoping for. Don't forget you can ask any question on the weekly Office Hours post and I can use my guitar cam live!
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-10-02 21:55:37 +0000 UTCHi Scott, Just joined, been watching you on YouTube for a while now. Started learning 2 1/2 years ago. Did the Fender Play lessons, been doing Justin Guitar for a while and follow Rick Beato, Chris Sherland, Paul Davids, Tim Pearce and plenty of others. Why so many? Well each approach offers something different, a new perspective a better angle and with you your rig does something that no one else does. When you play a note your overlay not only makes it clear to me what you played, but shows me the note name (letter) you played. The trouble with great teachers is they play so well often I didn't see what they played. I'm 63 so my hands aren't quick or stretchy or flexible, so I work a lot on that. I enjoy music theory (yes really!) so much didn't make sense until I started looking into the history of music and just how far back it goes and facinating like how we got the days of the week (Look up The Music Circle). For me the challenge is getting my hands to match my brain and understanding and getting to learn the fretboard to the point that it is second nature will unlock a lot for me. I started playing acoustic, but have found electric guitars and amplifiers facinating and another area of interest. I started buying £20 eBay guitars and fixing them up, re-stringing, re-wiring even rebuilding a Vintage V99 LP copy to repairing dents in the wooden body to shimming the neck on a Strat. I have repaired amps and have a collection of modelling and Tube amps. I started with Fender G-DEC's then got a Marshall, a Katana MkII, then a Spark 40 and recently a Tube Blackstar HR5. I suppose I'm chasing that elusive tone, and that just adds to the fascination. The best thing is even after a couple of years at it, my enthusiasm is still really high, I have time to be able to play pretty much every day and its probably the first thing I do in the morning. You would think that with that much effort it would be really paying off but I'm in no rush. I'm here for the long haul, and with such excellent tutors and brilliant lessons available from so many sources on every aspect imaginable, it is inevitable that one day I wll be able to play the guitar all I need to do is add the effort and its going to happen. Thank you Scott
Pete Dawkins
2023-10-02 16:18:00 +0000 UTCHello, I found this platform on YouTube, and Scott's teaching method makes things click right away. I am still in the beginning of my guitar journey, still a long way to go but looking forward to finish the theory section and dive into other lessons :) Thank you Scott!
Daniel Vella
2023-10-02 08:38:40 +0000 UTCHello all. I'm new here sort off. I was a Patron a few years back but lacked the time to really dig in. Anyway, I'm back now. I chose Scott because of his teaching style. I'm mostly self taught but I'm lacking theory knowledge to really move forward on guitar. I consider myself intermediate but I have been faking it so to speak. I've played 100s of gigs but I'm not as knowledgeable as my audience and fellow musicians think I am. In truth, I'm limited by my lack of fretboard visualization. Scott grabbed my attention with his YouTube video on how to solo aver chords using the CAGED system. It was never explained that way to me before. It opened up a whole new world for me. I was finally able to "see the fretboard." I thought, "Why has nobody explained it this way before?" Thanks Scott!
Jeffrey Solomons
2023-10-01 20:14:04 +0000 UTC
