Jay.A

I purchased L&M Guitar series through this site, my order arrived about a week ago, and I'm ready to move to lesson #2 tomorrow. I was following the Justin Guitar lessons previously. While I'm not a complete beginner, the difference is minimal. This is certainly humbling and exciting at the same time, but I'm enjoying the journey. I also inhaled one of the books recommended in another post in this forum: The Little Book of Talent, by Daniel Coyle. There is good advice in there on how to practice more effectively. I noticed others tracking progress in their post signatures here. How does that work or is it something I just need to manually build and maintain?

Took the plunge and now eagerly awaiting the DVDs to get started with this program.

Thank you, Neil. I will check out Steve Krenz's program. It is Gibson's Learn & Master Guitar with Steve Krenz? Some advice I received was: find which course works for you and stick with it. Don't mix courses which could see you at odds in your development. Would you (or anyone else) agree? I'm willing to do more work and more practice, I don't expect this to be easy. Rising through the ranks of competition bowling made me understand the need for focused, disciplined practice and I did experience on occasion how practicing two different mechanics can be at odds. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Has anyone worked two different programs with success? Life has a way of happening. I wish you the best of luck and plenty of success.

Greetings and Salutations - I'm a new member named Jay and restarting as a guitarist after a 35 year break. Until recently, I was a tournament (10-pin) competition bowler, earning a decent supplemental income. Age (which is undefeated) and a motorcycle accident have caught up to me and I'm no longer physically able to compete which has left me a huge amount of free time. I contemplated learning to play the sax. Growing up I took piano, drums, and guitar lessons. I progressed further with the piano than the other two instruments, but got to the point where my small hands and short fingers became a barrier to progress. Even as an adult I have small hands and short fingers. I like the accessibility of the guitar over the other instruments, so I'm learning the guitar again. It seemed prudent to assume total ignorance of all things guitar and start all over again as a raw beginner. Did a bunch of research online and got some help from a friend who gets paid to play the guitar. After testing a number of guitars for fit and feel, purchased a Mexican Fender Strat (Mexistrat?) at a local music store during a 20% off holiday sale. Started the Justin Guitar beginner lessons on Jan 1 and have been progressing steadily while building the necessary callouses. I don't have a resource/path/plan yet for learning music theory, but I'm looking forward to that as I remember enjoying it when learning the piano. I just remember liking it and some basics, not much else. It was 35 years ago! I've been doing some reading and watching documentaries on (mostly rock - though I enjoy all types of music) guitarists and history. For example, I had never heard of Charlie Christian before last week or his influence on people like Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, and Eric Clapton. Charlie is a great listen and you can find plenty of his work on YouTube. So if anyone has information about good books or movies or other resources on history, send them my way, please. Several online guitarists suggested finding a community as a good way to get exposed to different fill-in-the-blank in the guitar world and that seems like good advice. That lead me to find this site. Just reading through a few posts, it looks like a fun, collaborative, and supportive environment. I'm excited to be starting the journey and learning from you. New Year's greeting and best wishes to everyone.