Hello to all,
I am a long time drummer who now has the time to learn keys and guitar. Initially it was to learn how to better communicate with my band mates - core group but also a floating collection of players. My retired 1400 sq ft machine shop is now a music studio equipped with some core respectable gear rigs. Visitors can just plug and go. So thought it was time to learn how to play this stuff. Justin’s course is spot on for me. He emphasizes what i feel is important about music and cuts to the chase.
So my new addition to the stable is a 56 chicago blue lp - yes epiphone BUT has tv jones power tron bridge pu, p90 neck and graph tech saddles. Plays like a dream and screams through Orange Super crush 100 . No doubt I’ll be hitting up the board for guidance, thoughts and opinions.
Be well - Timmy
Welcome to the community.
Thank you Ian. I see we share another interest in touring by motorcycle. My wife is from the UK and got licensed for a bike, got a HD softail and we have toured 48 of the 50 states by two lane back roads. Gave her a whole new experience and exposure to the states. Every vacation where bike road trips…“this year we are doing a music ride…Nashville, over to New Orleans, drop by Austin and up the Mississippi juke joints”. Always wanted to tour Europe by mc.
Welcome to the community Timmy!
Hi Timmy.
Seems your pretty well on your way and ahead of many. Being a drummer and all.
This would seem a real step in the right direction as you’ll have timing down pat. Which, imho, is a obstical for many, at least me.
Ya’ve already got a place to play and some nice gear to play through. Again, a big step in the right direction. You’ve also got other musicans to play with and bounce ideas off of. Man, yer all set.
With Justin’s lessons, you’ll be playing in no time I’d think.
Go for it man!
Have a blast!
This community will support you with any questions you’ll have. Folks here are real friendly.
Rock On!
Dude, having a full set up music studio already is a sick way to start learning guitar. 
From a former musician learning guitar as well (trumpet and vocal in my case), you will definitely be ahead in a lot of ways especially rythem, and it’s all about the rythem. Then also just music in general, how it flows. It will help a lot.
Roght on, I am super stoked you found Justin’s community. Keep posting up Timmy.
Jason
Welcome to our Community Timmy! I do admire drummers so much…that’s just unbelievable to me how you guys can be so well accurate real “tempo machines”! And look at each other in a band and make everything just humanly perfect!
See you around here! 
Hey Jim,
Thanks for the welcome. Your right, i have a whole community of truly gifted players who tolerate\mentor me…lol
My goal is to always be the worse player in the room, we are all always learning.
Interesting you mentioned timing. Justin stated two points that sold me on his approach: 1) Play the song 2) Learn to count 1,2,3,4 At risk of being boo’d off the site, guitarist math always baffled me. “How many times do you play that rift? 3. uh, 3 beats, 3 measures? Huh, just 3” Even our present guitarist who plays great licks but really gets tripped up on counting. I was always taught to count out loud. The theory is you can only play what you can verbalize. If nothing else everyone at least agree on where 1 falls. what you do in between is up to you.
Best to you and again thanks for the welcome
Hey Jason,
Cool to hear from you. To play with horns is one of my bucket list items. Would love to hear musically what you were into and where guitar is taking
you. I see music as rhythmic conversation. From a drum stand point yes its about time keeping but to me its more. I view drums as a melodic tonal flow for that whole tension\release thing.
I too am thrilled to be here. Thanks for the hello.
Had a blast years back riding my bike out west and visiting a friend in pheonix, up north over the mountains and then caught in a flash flood. Damn you guys get it all between sun, dust storms and monsoons
Thanks Silvia and nice to meet a mod. Appreciate all the work you guys do behind the scenes but imagine you have an easy crowd here. Thanks for the compliments to drummers. But you know when it all crashes and burns, all eyes fall upon us. Thats why we hide at the back of the stage behind massive kits and flying brass
Ahh yup I played horn since I was a kid. Then I was in DCI for a couple of years with the tour in summer. Then the in the early 90s I was in Reno, NV and Santa Cruz, CA playing in a Ska/Punk Band. I did back up vocals and trumpet. I really did not pursue it hard.
Thing was I was getting bored with music at the time and was seeking adventure. I was really getting into extreme sports. Snowboarding was taking over my life and alpine climbing. I was traveling a lot and chasing storms. Around 93 music started taking a back seat. I was ok with that at the time.
These days I am olaying everything. Right now focusing on a lot of John Frusciante solo work and learning a lot of the Queens of the Stone age catalog, drop in some Maiden and some other old school metal and grunge here and there as far and bands music. I am writing some too. I also jump around a lot as well. That the last few months of music for me.
What about you Madmetal? Shred any Danny Carey? Give us some of your faves.
Welcome to the community Timmy!
Welcome Timmy, enjoy the journey with the rest of us. I started guitar, after playing some other instruments, about 2 years ago now at 71 and I love it. Just finished Blues Immersion. Nice sized shop turned studio! I had to build a separate music room for myself, but it’s nowhere as big as that.
HI Timmy, welcome to the community. As others have said, you already have an advantage in learning rhythm guitar and strumming patterns. Have fun learning to use your rhythm skills on the guitar. Seeing you begin your musical crossover journey made me look think again about buying an electronic drum kit.
Hi Mark,
Good to have a creative craft after retirement, especially software. I spent 20 yrs banging code and now can hardly stand to read an email. Again another endorsement to how good Justin’s site and course is. I started my metal repair\fabrication shop after retirement. Didn’t have one clue about the industry and equip…totally flying blind. One guy told me; “if you don’t have a scrap pile, you haven’t done anything” That’s cool you have your wife to test drive your work and wow what a way to understand the subtleties of the heart of any instrument. My neighbor, also named Mark who is a talented wood work (makes big cathedral height spiral staircases) has and plays stand-up bass was kind enough to contribute it to the shop instrument collection. Honestly it was due to his wife complaining about dusting and vacuuming around it…haha. He and his dad used to play the pups around Fl. Nice to hear from you and thanks for the hello. Not sure if there is a user media portion of this site but sure would be cool to see pics of your luthier work
Hi Steve,
Thank you for the kind greeting. Steve Dodge, my favorite drum teacher at the start of my first lesson asked if i played guitar or piano to which i replied no. He responded that i should. Then proceeded with I am going to play some guitar riffs and want you to play along. Wow, after expecting drills of various stroke rolls I was in. First riff was a pink floyd. But to your point, later after seriously starting to play guitar\keys and learning some theory, my drum playing immediate improved by leaps and bounds.Things like the accented power strum on 1 and the whole flowing creative mind set of playing all those powerful analog string frequencies washes really zoned things in. That most important statement of “Play the song” finally really clicked. So did you end up buying an e-kit? Although playing the acoustics rule (vintage lugwigs from the 70’s and a dw kit) I do have Roland v-drums which i highly recommend which are great for recording and of course volume control. Let me know if you pull the trigger on the e-drums. Always happy to share an honest opinion
howdy,
Beatup6string - “from a second hand store”? Killer tune
btw dig the twin vox’s. what models as look bigger then the Ac30’s
Hi Jim.
Reality is we are both in what has been coined “Race Horse turn”. There’s still time to get that bucket list done but by all means dont dally. I am amazed at those 70 plus still gigging 2/3 4 times a week.
What did you play previously? Do you feel like you play better now then anytime prior? Maybe not quite as fast but so much more tuned in to what and when to play OR not to play. Open space in a song can be the most musical notes never played.
As to room size, it is interesting and actually deceiving element. Much more space to treat to control frequency reflection. I was fortunate as when i build the machine shop it was on my home property so there was a neighbor noise consideration. Due to the delicacy of machining instruments it was also HVAC controlled with end result being foamed insulation.
As a result the space plays so well AND the big bonus is my neighbors and neighborhood is pretty artsy oriented so great support and never a complaint about the music. Hows the switch to guitar coming along. Is the blues immersion one of the blues courses on here? I want to sign up for the jan one but also feel like it would be above my pay grade and others may benefit more especially with the limited size
Wow, by no means do you live on the sidelines.
I dig that. Closet we get to extreme stuff is back when my wife and I toured the us on our motorcycles (my wife rides her own softail). So you cant cross Oklahoma, Kanasas well all those flat states in the summer without tornado’s breathing down your next. My wife got such the adrenaline rush from being chased across the states by tornados. Interesting documentary out regarding RHC. My music roots back up a bit but pretty well grounded in the later 60-70’s progressive sound. So many players to call out but one band still sticks out - Wishbone Ash, an English prog\blues band. Ted Turner and Andy Powell were noted for being the first to do dual harmonic guitar leads and trade offs. Their songs go through quite a bit of development start to finish. From there, wow, good music is where you find it. I try to keep an open mind, but outside of the numerous great players in the blues\rock genre, i havent found much post 2000 that has excited me. A good mate has been plays a cross between reggae/hendrix/floyd mixed and simmered with strong original flavor and is quite fun to play with. Our wed gathering is to work on playing genre not songs. Since we have such a flavor of players that might stop through, the idea is to be our own little wrecking crew. So far its been more the “wrecking” portion but we’re slowly turning the corner. Again, if one hasn’t made mistakes\junk, then they haven’t done anything