Welcome back Maxine, you may not be alone !
Good decision start at the beginning again. You get through the familiar material quick, see what you may have missed and find your natural level. Enjoy the ride.
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Welcome back Maxine,
Glad you’ve returned.
Much more fun here anyway with us pleb guitarists than hangin around with all those classical ‘toffs’ 
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Cheers Shane
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Welcome back Maxine
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@MaxineL Hi Maxine, welcome to the community forum. I only had a classical guitar to play all types of music in my first few years of learning guitar back in 1974. I also spent a year learning classical guitar in the first position, but was also inspired by classic guitar in prog rock like Yes’ Steve Howe’s Mood for a Day. I started back learning classical again back in April of this year, inspired by @Silvia80 and her learning log Also I learned that Justin also learned to play classical guitar when studying at the Conservatory level. You can hear him talk about this and demonstrate a little classical in Grade 3, module 16 : Flexing Time - The Falling Leaf dynamics and tempo. I find classical guitar is great to use for chord melody arrangements, finger strumming and finger picking accompaniment and it also sounds good with finger picked acoustic blues. Have a lot of fun learning to play great music on your guitar.
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Welcome back Maxine 
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A very warm welcome, Maxine, from a 71-year-old guitar aficionado 
Indeed, as the time passes we tend to value each day even more. I have a similar impression that whatever I want to do, as far as the guitar playing is concerned, I have to do now, and there are no excuses… But since I love it, there’s no sacrifice of any kind involved.
I myself started learning the classical guitar years ago, but now I’m entirely devoted to playing my electrics (a rather strange turn, wouldn’t you say? )
Anyway, all the best in your learning process.
Regards
Tomasz
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Welcome back to the community Maxine!
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Let me add to the welcomes, Maxine. One of the bennies of being closer to 70 than 60 (I am no longer close, I am 70) is that it is easier to jettison the things that give little or no joy and concentrate on the things that bring us joy.
Achieving some sort of proficiency with guitar brings max joy.
Enjoy the journey and the fun that comes your way! 
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Welcome back Maxine
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Welcome back Maxine! I myself was away for good long while too. You’ve made the right choince in returning here as, although classical is a wonderful way to diversify your skills, my impression is that the classical journey isn’t nearly as diverting as playing a three chord rock-pop calssic that gets some toes tapping and voices chiming. And, as for your Guiliani fingerstyle efforts, don’t worry as it’s ALL grist for the mill.
Hope you enjoy the journey gogin forward and the fabulous community of folks here as well. If you enjoy the whole process half as much as I am at the moment then you’re in for a real treat!!
Surely we’ll see you around these threads!
J
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Welcome back. Look forward to hearing more from you
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Hi Maxine & nice to meet you!
I hope to see you around here in the Community!
Have fun!
Tod from next door in New Mexico
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Welcome back Maxine! I also love the Classical Guitar and I’m learning it since July 2022…fun thing I haven’t played any Giuliani insofar…maybe later on he’ll be introduced as well in the Method I’m following. Don’t bother about age…I find that I’m enjoying very much the process, even if a lifetime won’t be enough to play Tarrega’s masterpieces…which …yes…it’s actually a very sad matter of fact 
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@Silvia80 Silvia, I looked ahead to the back of your method book 2 and saw some Giuliani exercises on pages 65-66. I only mention because they are actually like the acoustic guitar finger picking exercises in Justin’s later lessons. If you look at the 4:4 finger picking exercises from Grade 3 module 19, exercises 1 and 2 use the same finger picking pattern as Giuliani Op.1 exercises 87 and 88. I noticed though that Giuliani like Bach is a musical shredder (speed playing enthusiast - presto or prestissimo tempo ). Justin uses two 4 note patterns per bar with 8th notes and Giuliani uses four 4 note patterns per bar with 16th notes, so you have to play twice as fast. The fretting hand is easy in the Giuliani with just C and G, but the 16th note patterns with alternating bass is a pretty challenging finger picking workout. So I would say to @MaxineL that you will do the arpeggiated chords with finger style but at a more leisurely pace in Justin’s lessons, so you can relax. Have fun.
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Thanks for the encouragement! I may take another shot at it one day. Maybe the website that I joined just wasn’t for me. I still have my old classical guitar books from the 90s and they actually seemed better but right now I’m just going to have a little more fun and then see if I settle back down. Targa is wonderful! I’m glad you’re enjoying it. It’s such beautiful music.
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White sands, national Park and the ghost Cave are on my bucket list!
Welcome Maxine.
How about Ballon Fiesta? It’s coming up in October… 500+ hot air ballons in the sky at the same time is an amazing sight!!! Also, if you’re at White Sands, Carlsbad Caverns is pretty close… all of the formations in there are so cool… everyone should visit at least once!
The green chili roasting is happening now… the aroma whenever we’re near a store that’s roasting is phenomenal!!!
New Mexico is beautiful - we lived in the Fort Worth area for a while & enjoyed living there, but really missed the “high desert” & the mountains in Albuquerque.
Tod
that’s good then…that I’ve done no Giuliani insofar: speed and I 
I suspect that a 4/4 fingerpicking pattern I learnt back in my youth is from Giuliani…I’m not sure. It’s p i m i a i m i. It’s my favourite and play it often because it’s well automated…but not fast…
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Hello Maxine.
Welcome to JustinGuitar and this fantastic community. Please take your time to look around and get to know the wider space.
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Richard
