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With a last practice session on the bonus materials of Session 20, I finalized the L&M course today.

Wow, what a feeling!

Before starting the L&M course, I never ever thought I would get this far.

For too many years, I thought I missed the talent to become a guitar player, but what was really missing was a good course and teacher.

Searching the internet for good guitar instruction materials, I found L&M some 2,5 years ago and started to practice with lots of enthusiasm.

On the way, I also got the Song Hits and discovered Justinguitar as a great additional resource for learning songs.

The Major Scale Mastery Fredboard Workouts have been essential to my development as well. They have been the key for me to "unlock" the fredboard. I combined them with Session 17.

Sessions 18 and 19 were the ones that required most practice time, also because I used complementary resource to dive a bit deeper into Jazz (with Steve's Jazz Chords workouts) and into soloing (with Chord Tone Soloing by Barret Tagliarino).

And here I am at the finish line. I cannot thank @Steve Krenz enough for being the guide in my guitar learning journey. It's his way of teaching, his personality and his method that have taken me this far.

I synchronized the L&M sessions with learning the Song Hits. So I consider the last songs of the song hits as my "graduation" projects.

The first one recorded is "Don't know why" by Norah Jones.

 

The final and definitely most difficult one to get under my fingers is "Mona Lisa".

I would like to encourage all who are on the L&M course. Like others have said on this forum, it's all about practice, perseverance and patience. Trust the process. Steve's method works.

Wim.

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A major moment in your musical journey. Congrats. Your performances are inspirational for me and others here on the forum. I hope you continue to share your gifts to us and to others as you move on in your musical development. Thanks for sharing here.

Greg

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What an awesome accomplishment. Congratulations!!

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@Wim VD Wow a fantastic accomplishment! Congratulations! 

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Wim, I have now hung around these forums, formerly L&MG and now Guitar Gathering, for a few years.  You are one of the very few that I have seen finish all 20 sessions of L&MG.  What an accomplishment and you are an inspiration for all the rest of us trying to learn guitar and finish L&M.

Congratulations and thanks for all that you have contributed to these forums during your presence here.

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Where's my green with jealously button.

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Way to go, 

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@Wim VD Congrats on mission accomplished! ??? Do you have any particular style(s) or genre(s) you want to focus on now, or perhaps a new guitar course you want to tackle?

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@Wim VD Congratulations, Wim, on a major musical accomplishment! You have joined a very exclusive club. I’ve enjoyed listening to your music, and I hope you will continue to share it with us and inspire us. Well played, and well done! ???

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Fantastic Wim VD! Exactly what Diane B said.???????

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13 hours ago, V7#5b9 said:

@Wim VD Congrats on mission accomplished! ??? Do you have any particular style(s) or genre(s) you want to focus on now, or perhaps a new guitar course you want to tackle?

@V7#5b9 Thanks Gerard,

I am still working on the  Chord-Tone Soloing resource. That will take me probably another 6 months. It's very rewarding to progress in this area of playing by ear and to have my fingers finding the right notes more and more.

Also I would like to build a small repertoire of songs that I can play from memory. So far I have worked on songs till I could record them, and then moved to the next one, without maintaining the ones learned previously. I think I will spend one practice routine per week specifically on repertoire.

And I still have the L&M Blues and Fingerstyle courses waiting for me to get started. I will start the Blues one first.

Wim.

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17 hours ago, gotto said:

A major moment in your musical journey. Congrats. Your performances are inspirational for me and others here on the forum. I hope you continue to share your gifts to us and to others as you move on in your musical development. Thanks for sharing here.

Greg

 

13 hours ago, DianeB said:

@Wim VD Congratulations, Wim, on a major musical accomplishment! You have joined a very exclusive club. I’ve enjoyed listening to your music, and I hope you will continue to share it with us and inspire us. Well played, and well done! ???

Thanks , Greg and Diane,

I really like the monthly recording challenge and will keep participating to it.

Wim.

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7 hours ago, Wim VD said:

@V7#5b9 Thanks Gerard,

I am still working on the  Chord-Tone Soloing resource. That will take me probably another 6 months. It's very rewarding to progress in this area of playing by ear and to have my fingers finding the right notes more and more.

Also I would like to build a small repertoire of songs that I can play from memory. So far I have worked on songs till I could record them, and then moved to the next one, without maintaining the ones learned previously. I think I will spend one practice routine per week specifically on repertoire.

And I still have the L&M Blues and Fingerstyle courses waiting for me to get started. I will start the Blues one first.

Wim.

Blues followed by Fingerstyle sounds like a good plan. The tricky part about building repertoire is to keep each new song in the practice rotation long enough so it becomes second nature. Again, well done! Keep it up!

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Congratulations @Wim VD that is quite an accomplishment.

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Wow, This is wonderful!

Congratulations!!!  I'm sure you started this thinking it would look one way but now that you're done the journey has gone a different but wonderful direction.

I'm so proud of the work you've put in.  Now, there's much music inside of you, ready and able to come out.

Honored to be a small part of the journey with you.

Thanks for being a great part of our guitar family.  You've got much to give to others still working on their skills. Keep learning and pouring out to others.

- Steve

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25 minutes ago, Steve Krenz said:

Wow, This is wonderful!

Congratulations!!!  I'm sure you started this thinking it would look one way but now that you're done the journey has gone a different but wonderful direction.

I'm so proud of the work you've put in.  Now, there's much music inside of you, ready and able to come out.

Honored to be a small part of the journey with you.

Thanks for being a great part of our guitar family.  You've got much to give to others still working on their skills. Keep learning and pouring out to others.

- Steve

Thanks, Steve.

The strange thing is that this feels more like a start than an end to me now. It's like having earned an entry ticket into the world of making music.

On the journey, I learned a lot about the learning process as well. A piece of music might seem tricky and difficult to learn at the start, but by breaking it down into smaller pieces, by taking it really slow, and putting in the necessary time, it can be done. Building this confidence is to me an essential part of a musician's development.

Thanks again for all that you do for us.

Wim.

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Couldn't have said it better myself!

- Steve

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@Wim VD  As I may have mentioned before, your learning progress and playing is an inspiration to all of us,   As with most learning paths, the course is  just the price of admission to a newer bigger world. Sincere congratulations!

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Congratulations Wim!

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Well done WIM. What a great achievement. Here is you finished the course and I am right at the beginning trying to pluck up the courage to get started. 

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 Mick, envision yourself in a nearby future as guitarplayer playing the songs you love together with Jules and friends.

It's this kind of vision that get's people started and motivated on this journey.

Enjoy L&M and don't forget to learn some songs on the way.

Wim.

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On 7/24/2018 at 8:11 PM, NeilES335 said:

@Wim VD  As I may have mentioned before, your learning progress and playing is an inspiration to all of us,   As with most learning paths, the course is  just the price of admission to a newer bigger world. Sincere congratulations!

Thanks, Neil.

You are now moving into the last couple of sessions of the course yourself and that is where things get really interesting. Keep going, you're almost there.

Wim.

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I just now found this thread. Way to go @Wim VD1!!!!! Your guitar journey has reach a milestone. Let the fun begin for your next milestone. 

Congratulations!! 

Danny

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Thanks, Danny.

It's been 4 months now since I finished LMG and started my blues journey. The fundaments provided by the LMG course are strong and the more I play, the more fun I seem to have. Just like yourself, I can't get enough of playing guitar.

Wim.

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It's inspiring to hear about your journey. I'm in session 4 at the moment, so at the very beginning, really. Having a lot of fun, but of course, no results come without some sweat, frustration and effort (practice).

I think it's a big accomplishment to get through all 20 sessions in two and a half years. I hope that I am able to do the same. Congratulations.

I like what you said about this feeling like a beginning for you. Yes, there's always more to learn. ?

 

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Thanks, @Yggdrasilium 

Keep up the good work on L&M, it's definitely worth it.

Wim.

 

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