Hello from Kent in YSO

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I had a religious experience at a Daikaiju show and borrowed a guitar about a week later.

After about two months I hit a wall. That’s when I found Justinguitar. Here I am, I know all the notes on the fretboard, I know about 12 cords and can do about 20 changes per minute between A,D,E,C,G,Am,Dm,Em

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Wow knowing you fretboard is impressive, keep working justin’s lesson’s and do your chord changes and you will be well on your way. Glad you found the community. I cant wait to see you continue to update us on your journey.

:metal:t2:

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Welcome to the community. What’s YSO?

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Welcome Kent! I had to look up Daikaiju, and the first place I landed was a wiki page about Godzilla movies. I was trying to figure out how to ask about the connection between Godzilla, religious experiences, and guitar, when I saw that Daikaiju are a band! I’m now thinking that’s what you’re referring to… :rofl:

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Welcome to the forum Kent

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Hey Kent,

Well, you’re far ahead of me in ability, but I will nonetheless give a plug for Justin’s pedagogy.
He has one major track for new skills, while simultaneously setting you up to be somewhat proficient/aware of future new skills, so you don’t come at them cold.

Having been at it for naught but a half a year these are the most critical things I’ve taken away (or invented, I’m not sure of their provenance),

  • have fun
  • playing songs is fun
  • ergo play more songs
    I find I learn more from playing songs than from (although after) the exercises
  • feel (or the groove, or whatever) is more important than actually hitting the correct chords all the time. To possibly misquote Duke Ellington, “if it sounds good, it is good”

Welcome to the happy crowd,
Bruce

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YSO is the IATA Postville Airport 3 letter code. Its in Newfoundland, but something tells me it’s not that though. :rofl:

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Exactly. For me learning my first song, thanks Justin, all the way through, unlocked the fun. Welcome to the forum, look forward to hearing more from you

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Hello Kent & Welcome!

As BC mentions - the key is FUN!
The more fun you have, the more you want to pick up the guitar & play… the more you play, the better you get… the better you get, the more fun it is… the more fun you have… :thinking:
There’s a pattern here & I’m not talking strumming pattern, either!!! :rofl:

Enjoy yourself in you musical Journey!

Tod from New Mexico USA
P.S. Where IS it that you call home - YSO?

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Hi Kent, welcome to the community forum. Play a lot of songs and you will have fun and eventually have faster chord changes. Of course, practice the one minute chord changes as Justin suggests. It gives you a lot of progress in a short amount of time. I still do that, after over 2 years with Justin, when I learn new chords.

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Hi Kent ,
Welcome here and I wish you a lot of fun :sunglasses:

Greetings,Rogier

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Kaiju means monster in Japanese , Godzilla is a kaiju so , its pretty normal that you ended up on godzilla’s movies

Daikaiju means Big monster

Is something bigger than godzilla or mothra even possible ? :dizzy_face:

Welcome in the community Kent

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Welcome to the community Kent.

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Hi Kent and its nice to meet you cheers HEC

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Welcome to the Community Kent, have fun

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Welcome, Kent.

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Yellow Springs Ohio. A bubble of sanity in a crazy world

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Thanks Bruce, I’m finding the theory, chord progressions and scales to be easier to grasp. I’ll take your advice to learn more songs. Justin makes it easy

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Yellow Springs Ohio

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Yes the surf band Daikaiju