Hi all, I’m a re-starter. Learned a tiny bit of classical guitar and some Dylan songs in my 20s; several decades later (and about 18 months ago) start playing regularly again. Found a few of Justin’s videos on YouTube, then checked out the website for more. Have recently start the SOS strumming course, which is fantastic (varying strumming patterns; backbeats; fills, shuffle, etc) - having lots of fun. And most recently looked at this community site - so friendly and informative. Look forward to playing with you all. Paul
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Welcome to the community, Paul 
I agree, this is a great place and you will always find positive input from supportive people. I also went for the Strumming SOS courses (still in the first one, but took a sneak peak on the second one already) and I also think that they are really, really great help
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Welcome, Paul. Indeed, this is a great place, lots of friendly people who like to help. Glad you restarted playing guitar.
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Welcome to the forum Paul
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Hi Paul and welcome 
If that’s you in your profile pick, then great to have another surfer on the forum 
All the best with your guitar journey 
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Welcome Paul, so nice to have you here 
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Sounds like you’re having a great restart of your guitar journey . Have fun 
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I’m looking forward to hearing more from you 
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Hi Paul,
Welcome and I wish you a lot of fun and long learning curve
Greetings,Rogier
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Welcome to the community, Paul! 
Wish you lots of fun on your guitar journey.
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Paul, welcome to the community forum. The previous experience with guitar should help you make good progress with Justin’s lessons. Have fun learning new songs.
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Hey Paul, welcome to the community. Great to have another Aussie here. When I started playing well over a decade ago I lived on Mt Tamborine and besides justin guitar, a Gold Coast acoustic club made a huge difference for me. We have regular jams, camping weekends and open mics. Based in Nerang, the jams are at various Gold and Sunshine coast locales.
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Thanks - the club looks great.
PS Loved your story about the 11 1/2 blues (I’m usually 13 or 14 with fumbling the turnaround
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There’s a great event coming up this month, our club will have an open mic there followed by a jam session, if you are thinking of going I can send you a list of the expected jam songs. Usually when the club has a jam it’s more organic, no set list of songs. With this large of a public event we are following a list of songs, it may well morph into something more organic depending on the day.
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Hey Paul, G’Day from Sandgroper country
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Hello Paul and welcome to community. Glad to hear you are playing again.
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Hello Paul and welcome to our community.
Great to read you have decided to pick up the guitar again, it’s such a great thing to do.
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Hi Paul, and welcome to the Community
I spent a year working on the Sunny Coast in the early 90s and had an interesting weekend taking my VW camper van down to Surfer’s Paradise, won a couple of hundred dollars in a casino and then headed up to Nimbin, sampling agricultural produce 
Ah, to be young and foolish…
Good to see you enjoying your return to the righteous path
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Thanks Tony - sounds great (the jam, not the open mic!)
Hope to get along, but it’s my wife’s birthday weekend also. Definitely will get to a club event sometime.
happy strumming
Paul
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Haha Brian, that’s great, Nimbin has some of the finest agricultural produce in the area. Not sure what makes their produce so much better, maybe something in the air???
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THanks Brian - I think that was the 70’s for me … so now trying our old and foolish
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Hi Paul
I live on the Gold Coast too - down the South end! I have a guitar group of about 16 people who are all retired and learning guitar with me on a Tuesday. We all use Justin’s teaching videos and also the play along app. It’s a lot of fun and Justin is a very talented teacher as he is able to break things down so it’s easy to understand. Cheers and enjoy your music journey.
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