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  1. Neil, It was just bumped up to 3 months for the 1st 100,000 who sign up. I looked through some of the lessons, but most are very beginner oriented. I am more into lessons like what Phil Keagy has on Jam Play now. My son however, is just starting to learn how to play. Since the Gibson L & M Guitar program is more organized and has a vastly better teacher he is going to use my old discs and books. (best $149 I ever spent)
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  2. Are you getting a lot of playing in? What are you working on? Have you chosen this time to get into something new? How are you spending this time? These are strange days, I know they have been personally quite stressful and anxious for me - it's been difficult for me to want to go pick up the guitar at times. But it is a great mindfulness activity, and it does allow us a way to escape for a time and continue to learn and grow. Just wanted to say hello and that I hope all of the friends here are finding time in our lives for guitar.
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  3. Do you know about the Keep Music Alive Project? Since music venues have been closed, a group sponsored by the Fretboard Journal, Dream Guitars, the Asheville Music School and others have decided to take concerts online. Last night Al Petteway provided a great fingerstyle concert. Another Asheville area artist, Shane Parish plays tonight. You can learn about the project and see the concert lineup at the link below: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/keep-music-live-project-29989688540 The concerts are free - but donations are appreciated. Enjoy!
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  4. Not too much of a change for me, except more hours are working from home than before. I try to stay on task but there are a lot of distractions at home (the furry four legged ones are the main distraction, lol!). We are definitely staying home more and I try to get more practice time in, but not sure I'm actually getting more done. I have a few fingerstyle songs that I am trying to learn, and I really should get to concentrating some quality time on those!
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  5. @matonanjin Generous offer Ron. You may have something here... Perhaps we could start a "Resources Sharing Library" . Somthing like this; A Member posts their unused/seldom used/ unwanted guitar or song instruction for donation. The recipient pays the postage; far less than the cost of the courses or books/cd's. They receive a resouce to study that perhaps they could not afford or were unsure of. The resource doesnt gather dust and donor helps a fellow student on their guitar journey. What do you folks think? Neil
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  6. I started the L & M Guitar course when I turned 60. Took me 18 months of solid work to complete it, no short cuts, just treated it like a college course and stuck with it. I avoided any other side tracts so as not to get distracted. It took six months to complete the Blues Spot Light course, and backed that up with "Blues Grooves" from Steve that I won on one of the live lessons and finished that one 2 months ago. The L & M Fingerstyle course was the hardest and that took me about 14 months to complete. I like that one so much I spent a year just learning classical music from "Classical for Guitar" that I also got from Steve. I figured if studying classical was good enough for Mark Knopfler it probably wouldn't hurt me to do the same. During that time I also finished the L & M Song Hits. I did not memorize them, just learned them to be able to play them with the printed music. Now, I am doing what I really wanted to do in the first place...learning rock and roll songs. So now after 4 and a half years I feel like I can play most any intermediate songs (classical, blues or rock) and now it really doesn't take that long to learn riffs. If I hear it (over and over LOL) I can figure it out. (Yes, it was worth it.) Still working full time as well. If I can do it, anyone can. You don't have to be gifted. The only week I don't practice every day is when I go to Chicago to a week long medical meeting after every Thanksgiving as I have for the last 32 years. If I behave, my wife might let me stop by the Chicago Music Exchange this time though. Good Luck to the rest of you on your own guitar journey. GH
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