Grade 1 Feedback Please!

[silo_boi]

guitar truly is a great ting

[andres_isaza]

Hello Justin, Greetings from Bogota (Colombia). I have just finished Grade One on both the WEB and the APP, I found both to be excellent tools. I have been trying and trying to play guitar for many years now and I play some songs, but my level is very bad, that’s why I decided to start from scratch and be able to play “Metal” at a good level. I found your course excellent, I am going to take each and every one of the 7 recommendations to be able to move on to grade 2. Thank you very much and I congratulate you for your courses, which are of an excellent level.

[Patchyyyyyyyy]

Grade 1 has honestly been such an amazing everything for learning guitar
When you’re on youtube or other sites theres so much pressure from everywhere and things grabbing your attention to learn this and that or whatnot
But here i was able to be pointed to the right direction AND be given the advice i needed to learn things at my own pace, not to mention its a huge motivation booster, and i think i’ve been doing great
Onto grade 2!

[AwesomeGuitarist3650]

I’m 11 years old just started learning and found this very helpful and fun

[judi]

Welcome Oliver! How wonderful that you are starting guitar early. I wish I had stuck with it when I was your age! We have an Introduce Yourself topic in the community…head over there and say hello (again) and you’ll receive a warm welcome, I’m sure.

[makloos]

Just finished the lessons in grade one. Going at my own pace and waiting until I had reached or almost reached your goals, it’s taken me a little over two months to get to this point. I won’t say I’ve “passed” the grade just yet, as I think there are still some elements I could use some more practice on, but I feel confident that I can reach that point and I’m looking forward to continuing onto the next grade.

Thank you for all that you’ve done, Justin!

[inkedpad]

Awesome start!

[Manuelito]

Just here to express my gratitude towards this amazing course. Ive been on and off with my guitar for years and never really learnt the basics. This was my fisrt time actuallly learning progressively and I can say that I watced myself growing in tecdhnique and in ambition of playing more and more. Thank you Justing for such an incredible guiadance

[LeeMB]

Glad you’re digging it all dude

[Natalie2012]

I have just recently started my guitar journey and this has helped so much, thank you Justin!

[Sakina]

Hello Justin, I’m Sakina,

I really love these lessons! I’m interested in learning electric guitar and I wanted to go through your comprehensive lessons before
I own an electric guitar.

Thank you so much for generosity of creating these guitar lessons and offering them for free.
I wouldn’t be able to afford electric lessons at the level you teach. I’m also interested in learning songwriting and music theory for electronic guitar.

What electronic guitar looks cool, that lets me play pop, rock and heavy metal genres and that’s lighter to carry? I’m in a wheelchair so
I would need one to hold while I play an electric guitar once I own one.

Let me know please

My dream is to work with Seth MacFarlane as a musician and songwriter someday, jamming with him on several of his jazz albums, write songs for our future jazz albums and write jazz songs for his future jazz albums too.
When I achieve these dreams and I meet Seth someday I will tell him I learned electronic guitar professionally from you!

[Sakina]

Also, Justin you mentioned in your lesson in Grade 1 that you have to tap your foot when you’re playing. I can’t tap my foot in my wheelchair so what could I do instead?

Please me know,
Thank you

[sequences]

Hi Sakina. Welcome to the forums!

@Sakina

lighter to carry? I’m in a wheelchair

check out the headless that Rogier has in his recent videos. He has other styles as well, but I know those headless can be pretty light if you get one that is hollow in the body. I have a Strandberg chambered guitar that is pretty light and easy to handle in a tight space behind my desk.

Rogier slings his a lot higher than I would so it can fit in the wheelchair with him. You will need to look around the site here for other videos of his playing other styles.

Roger's rock on wheels

Hi , Well, beyond all shame , anything for the fire extinguisher , this time I find it really difficult to find the sound of the electric guitar acceptable. Even my wife asked me to turn up all the high tones from the Equalizer pedal because otherwise the rhythm guitar sounds much too sharp and is really not good in our ears , so this is a compromise for us… of course a very important point that will be resolved and to practice with the pick for at least 3 hours every week. This has be…

[LadyOfTheCastle]

Hi @Sakina, welcome to the forum! Justin indeed says to tap your foot, but not everyone does. Quite a few people bob their head for example. The key thing is to move some part of your body to help you keep the rhythm - it doesn’t matter too much which part

[witkatz]

@Sakina

I can’t tap my foot in my wheelchair so what could I do instead?

Counting Time

I had piano lessons as a kid/teenager and - much to the disapproval of my teacher - hated to use a metronome and just didn’t (stupid me, yes!). Of course I played classic music and what I did is counting and “tapping”. But instead of tapping, my whole body rocked in time and even chewing my chewing gum at the same tempo. (By the way, it’s not too different from guitar, except I’m using the metronome now) Further, I tried to listen to the pieces over and over and I sort of gained a good f…

Lisa recommends chewing gum, might that be a tip for you?
Cheers Withold

[Lisa_S]

Would not go as far to call it a recommendation, Withold. But, well, for me it worked.

@Sakina In case you don’t like chewing gum I second what @LadyOfTheCastle Els is suggesting: Nodding or bobbing your head works fine, too. Often do it like this nowadays.

For that:

@Sakina

What electronic guitar looks cool, that lets me play pop, rock and heavy metal genres and that’s lighter to carry? I’m in a wheelchair so

I feel free to again tag Rogier @roger_holland for some profound suggestions. (Thanks in advance, Rogier )

But in general you can play all genres you mention on (almost) all electric guitars. Playing comfort is more important than looks (even though this should not be neglected, too).

PS: Welcome to the community, Sakina!

[roger_holland]

Hi Sakina @Sakina

First , Thanks Lisa for the call as I did read Michael’s post but I kind of missed/forgot Sakina’s post

Sakina, since this would be a bit off topic, I ask you to look me up in my Learning log (there you can find an example of a light, (2,3 kg the black one) super small body guitar where even with a rest on your rhythm guitar arm, it is still… not easy… but playable… my right rest has now been permanently removed) …see some video`s with totaly different styles i did with that and more …
If you would like to talk about your disability and/or additional problems in detail and not in the open, feel free to ask questions or provide explanations in a private email …

the first 5 years I couldn’t move/tap my feet or ankles a millimeter ( I have regained some feeling and movement there ) , and still playing/practising went quite well the first years, of course foot tapping is the best for more reasons, but if it’s not possible we just look for other things that work.

Welcome here and I wish you a lot of fun

And wishing you all the best in this amazing journey ,
Rogier

[NickScully]

thanks for this Justin. you’re a great teacher.

[russbryant]

Nice lessons and good for a quick review since I went through them quite a while back.