Welcome, New Patrons!
Added 2023-09-01 13:00:02 +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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Hi Nicolas! Welcome. Your needs are the exact kind of thing I am trying to help people with here, so I hope you enjoy learning. Feel free to ask me anything on the weekly like Q&A, Thursdays at 10AM Pacfic
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-10-23 16:40:19 +0000 UTCHi Clay! Welcome! I hope you're having a good time here. Feel free to ask any question on the weekly Live Q&A, Thursdays at 10AM Pacific Time
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-10-23 16:38:36 +0000 UTCBeen playing for around 10 years, played in several tribute bands as a vocalist/ rhythm guitar and made some original songs from ear, I’ve never taken lessons other than watching YouTube videos. I’m good at learning a song, tabs and all that but I suck at improvising, playing along with musicians on the go because I lack theory and musical knowledge. So I’m here to get better and hopefully create music while I understand the how’s and the why’s
Nicolas Dominguez
2023-10-21 19:10:24 +0000 UTCHi all! Been playing for about 15 years! I’ve never taken a lesson and everything has been by ear. Over the past few weeks I’ve been self teaching guitar theory via YouTube and wow did the guitar begin to make so much sense! Love the way you teach Scott! Excited to dive in and really understand why we do the things we do. I’m hoping that theory knowledge will help my creativity. Thanks for having me here!
Clay
2023-09-12 13:56:45 +0000 UTCHi Matthew! Welcome. Let me know if you have any questions! I'm glad to see you're digging in and making your way through the lessons.
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-09-06 17:20:22 +0000 UTCHi Paul, Step one is to bookmark this page on my website: https://www.scottpauljohnson.com/patreon-lesson-archive It's got my "where to start page" and a list of all my lessons. You can also bookmark my recommended lesson plan if you want to go through my lessons in my recommended order: https://www.scottpauljohnson.com/scotts-recommended-lesson-plan Welcome! Let me know if you have any more issues.
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-09-06 17:19:34 +0000 UTCHi Terry - how is it going? Glad you're getting into the groove. Welcome!
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-09-06 17:16:28 +0000 UTCHi Ashley - I use GoodNotes8 but you can also just print them off if you have a home printer. Welcome and thanks for being here!
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-09-06 17:16:05 +0000 UTCHi Sym, Welcome! Thanks for joining! Check out my Music Theory for Guitar, CAGED Basics, and the first handful of Music Theory Monday courses - from there, ask me where to go next on a livestream if you don't have any good leads in the Recommended Lesson plan
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-09-06 17:15:32 +0000 UTCHi Joe, Welcome! Music theory is tricky because the more you learn, the more it makes sense. I'd say move on from the intervals lesson if you get the concepts because the following lessons will make use of those concepts in a usable way. Once you get through the Music Theory for Guitar series, check out a couple Music Theory Monday lessons and my melody making lessons. From there, try a few Community Challenges and see what kinds of issues come up blocking your creativity and ask me about it on a livestream!
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-09-06 17:13:39 +0000 UTCHey, all! I’m picking my guitars back up after maybe 20 years of letting them sit in the back of a closet. When I was in college, I learned some chords and scale or two, but after that life got so busy. My kids got me a guitar stand last Christmas, so since then they’ve been right there in the living room. I found myself picking them up every day and strumming the same old chords, and I thought, “why didn’t I ever develop past this?” So I was roaming YouTube looking for lessons and stumbled across Scott’s account. It was absolutely brilliant. It’s just been a week or two, but I already understand major and minor scale and chord triads (I could never quite get my head around the until Scott explained them). I’d love to get to the point where I can jam and improvise more freely. I’m working my way through Scott’s suggested curriculum right now. Thanks, Scott! Good luck to you all!
Matthew Bardowell
2023-09-06 12:01:41 +0000 UTCHi how do I navigate the website please. I’ve just become a patron and I don’t know how to access the courses without having to go to the link in my mail. Thanks
Paul Butler
2023-09-05 20:10:16 +0000 UTCi will get it I WILL GET IT!
DR. Terry Sumpter DNP CRNA
2023-09-04 18:50:18 +0000 UTCI’ve been working on Lesson 1!
DR. Terry Sumpter DNP CRNA
2023-09-04 18:49:51 +0000 UTCWelcome Terry and all. Scott has a recommended lesson plan available here that covers the most important of his previous lessons. Check this out if you haven't already and start working your way through the first few lessons. https://www.scottpauljohnson.com/scotts-recommended-lesson-plan
Richard Stapleton
2023-09-04 08:52:59 +0000 UTCI am retired and want to learn the guitar so where do I start?
DR. Terry Sumpter DNP CRNA
2023-09-03 16:45:44 +0000 UTCHi! What iPad app are people using for the homework sheets? I found Scott's site through the "How to use the CAGED system to play a SOLO" YouTube video. Scott's video was the first explanation that clicked for me! Following the recommended lesson plan.
Ashley
2023-09-03 12:34:38 +0000 UTCHi Sym. Welcome!
John Var
2023-09-02 00:15:44 +0000 UTCHi everyone, I’m Sym. I’ve been trying to teach myself for a couple of years now. Learnt other instruments as a kid but wanted to get into guitar semi seriously. Feel like I’ve hit a point where learning songs I like is only so satisfying now and want to learn some theory and broader fundamentals. Scott’s YouTube vids on the CAGED system really interested me, so here I am 😊
Symeon Collette
2023-09-01 21:36:00 +0000 UTCScott is the best. If you don’t understand something in a video, just ask him and he’ll explain it to you in a way that makes sense. I’ve found watching a video a few times helps to suddenly get something I didn’t before.
Julian Caron
2023-09-01 17:29:09 +0000 UTCHi Joe,
Julian Caron
2023-09-01 17:26:33 +0000 UTCHi Joe, Welcome. I too am working through Scott's recommended lesson plan. When I hit intervals, I thought what in the world is the relevance of this, but decided to, in Scott's words, "trust the process". So I just keep practicing and push through to the next lesson. And every once in a while a light gets turned on.
Richard Finlay
2023-09-01 15:50:31 +0000 UTCHi, I am new to trying to learn guitar through videos and was looking for someone that had some sort of structure. I found a recommendation for Scott's music theory videos so I decided to try them out. I've watched the intervals one a few times now and still don't fully grasp it but that is not the fault of the videos. I am probably an advanced beginner who has a lack of fundamental knowledge. I enjoy writing lyrics and would hope to accomplish some abilities of adding guitar to my songs without having to collaborate with someone else.
Joe
2023-09-01 13:49:24 +0000 UTC
