Hello, I'm Adrian from East Devon

Hi All,

I have tried to learn guitar since I was 11, I am now in my 60’s. I played in a couple of amateur bands in the late 70’s in SE London, mainly rhythm guitar. I stopped after a couple of years when work and married life came along.

I had a mid life crisis in my late 40’s and went back to college to study music and do a BTEC course(Pop/Rock & Jazz). That was a bit of a baptism of fire as I was very rusty, poor rhythm, and little guitar and music knowledge retained. Learning and performing 3 new songs a week was truly daunting, and I suffered from nerves when playing live. I progressed slowly and got to an average level, I was just starting to improvise better and was feeling good. Then near the end of the course I got problems with my left hand, it was thought this was repetitive strain injury from too much guitar practice, it stopped me playing, a very frustrating and depressing time and I stupidly sold all my gear.

18 months later when things got much worse with my left arm it was found that I had a trapped nerve in my neck, which had caused all the issues in the first place, after an operation to fuse two vertebrae and a years recovery the pain was gone. By then I was busy working and did not think about playing guitar again for about 8 more years.

Recently I retired and my wife gave me an acoustic guitar, via a friend, and said why not have another go you have lots of time to get back into it. So now here I am with an Aria Pro II Nashville(Telecaster type) electric, a 30W Kustom amp and a couple of pedals, some music guitar books, my old course notes and luckily for me I found JustinGuitar when an ex work colleague recommended him to me.

I am practising most days and gradually things are coming back, I am enjoying playing again, but I am still struggling with aspects, as I did 10 years ago, mainly rhythm/timing, and syncronisation.

I am hoping to get good enough to play with along with a few like minded local musicians for fun if I can get over my nerves as well.

Cheers

Adrian

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welcome :slight_smile:

Thanks :slightly_smiling_face:

Welcome Adrian! You can find a lot of resources on the JG website that will help you to practice and build your skills with timing and time-feeling. I wrote something more on your other thread.

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Hi Adrian,

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

Greetings,Rogier

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Welcome to the forum Adrian

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Welcome Adrian

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Welcome to the community, Adrian! :smiley:

Wish you loads of fun re-exploring guitarland. :slight_smile:

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Welcome to the community Adrian!

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Hello Adrian & Welcome!

Enjoy the re-start to your guitar journey… keep it fun!!!

Tod from New Mexico USA

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Welcome onboard Adrian :wave:

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Hi Adrian, welcome to the community forum. Learning songs in Justin Guitar should be less stressful. You can learn at your own pace.

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Welcome, Adrian, it’s a great place, glad you’re on the mend.

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Thanks for everyone’s welcoming posts.

It’s great to be picking up a guitar again, even though I struggle with it.

I probably should have said something about musical tastes, it mainly begins in the 60’s, with lots of rock and prog in the 70’s and more recent, good pop/rock from whenever, love Jazz 50’s onward, and the blues feature of course. I am also into some electronic, and can enjoy some classical. I have a reasonable vinyl collection and quite a few CDs, I find streaming useful for new music but not a medium I like to listen with regularly.

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hello, I am new here to…I also have trouble with rythm :laughing:
your dog is so cute, I just need to say. I have a beagle-ish hound

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Welcome Adrian, Sure it will all come flooding back to you enjoy for you :+1: :slight_smile:

Hi Adrian,

Welcome to the community forum. :grinning: