Welcome to the forum Mark
Hello Mark! Glad to see you getting back into it. I’m looking to start a jam group in my town, what difficulties did you find doing yours?
Mike from The Ohio State University
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Welcome to the forum. Ann Arbor is a great place for music. I’m down in the Toledo area, but get up your way for concerts at the Ark fairly frequently.
Hi Mike, I would say the biggest issue was actually finding people. Tried to get something going a couple times by just posting in local Facebook groups. Got together to play with various people a few times but nothing really jelled.
I would highly recommend working with a city or county group of some kind, like an adult educational enrichment program. In our case the Senior Center has given us a lot of promotion like featuring us in their newsletter and getting us some newspaper coverage. We also get free practice space.
Another thing we are doing is offering an intro to guitar class every so often. We did this because we were getting quite a few folks who were interested but were complete beginners to guitar. We offered the class to teach them some basic chords, how to read tab, and how to strum. We plan on having a session every few weeks where we concentrate on really easy songs that these folks will be able to play.
Yeah Ann Arbor is great! Moved up here from Toledo area 20+ years ago and love it. I’m only a half hour or so away. If you want we could get together and play sometime during this course.
Thanks for all that information. Very useful nuggets in there!
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Hello Mark
Welcome. You seem to have a similar back story to me. It’s interesting that BLIM has attracted some more experienced players to this forum. I wonder if there could be a specific area where we could hang out on here.
Peter
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That’s freaking awesome, welcome to the community!
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Hi Mark ,
welcome here and I wish you a lot of fun 
And it is nice to read that you have started doing this and thus make your pension a great time 
Greetings,Rogier
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Welcome aboard, Mark!
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Hi Mark, welcome to the community forum. Enjoy the BLIM course.
Hello Mark & Welcome!
Good to have you here… I think you’ll find that there are a lot of people with vastly different backstories who have come together with guitar (also all things related to guitar & music) as their common interest!!! It’s really cool to have people with musical experience here to help us newbies along in our journey to guitar mastery!!!
Thanks in advance!!!
Tod from Albuquerque NM
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Welcome Mark and as a fellow Blimmer and long time member here good to see you posting on what I am now referring to Gen Pop in the BLIM arena. There is a BLIM specific “hello” page like this in the BLIM area, so say hello to the peeps in the suburbs via the link below.
https://community.justinguitar.com/t/learn-together-and-say-hello/323599/254
Thanks I’ll copy this over there.
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Welcome to the community Mark!
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Hi Mark
Welcome to the community!! Looking forward to sharing and learning on the Immersion course.
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That would be fun if we can make the scheduling work. It sounds like we have a couple people in this general region in the BLIM class
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Hi Mark. welcome. Good that guitar playing and jamming are again part of your life. Have fun with the blues.
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Welcome to the community Mark! 
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Hello Mark.
Welcome to JustinGuitar and this fantastic community. Please take your time to look around and get to know the wider space.
https://community.justinguitar.com/categories
We are a supportive and encouraging group of students and guitarists from across the world. Essentially, we are all here for music and to improve as players. We truly are a ‘community’. Members help and support one another and a friendly, positive attitude underpins this. We hope that all - young or old, experienced or new players - adopt and foster the pay-it-forward ethos that Justin personifies and embedded all those years ago when he started the website and forum.
Also, please make sure to read the community etiquette announcement for some important information and guidance.
Richard
