Been a while since I have checked in with you all. I am loving the intermediate course and how things are starting to come together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Have moved to a new city and started jamming with my guitar teacher in his cool studio which is loads of fun. I bought the heartbeat T-shirt from the merchandise store, now my favourite T-shirt. Hope all your guitar journeys are going well. Feel free to share where you are all at. Shanti <3
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Hi Shanti ,
Fine . 
Greetings
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Hello!
Iām at the end of Grade 1, Module 7. This isnāt the first time Iāve tried to learn to play guitar. I think from here on out everything will be new, but I canāt confirm because I remember seeing Justin teaching the F chord and that lesson is in Grade 2 (it might have been in the classical course, I donāt know).
Yes, he definitely taught me because I can play barre chords.
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Justinās very first lesson is How To Tune Your Guitar. He also has a lesson on tuning your guitar with Harmonics.
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Iāve had a few weeks off practice, was away skiing in France and then school holidaysā¦ but trying to get back a nice 1 hour solid practice routineā¦ doing a lot of rock work - been taking some lessons with an old colleauge Martin Goulding, so working owith him on that and tapping and sweepingā¦ as well as just jamming blues stuff. Planning to get back into transcribing some robben ford solos later this week - once I get my āworkā doneā¦ a new lesson on finger placement, and a 2 guitar part sould song, midnight hour! Busy week ahead.
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Nice break and well deserved. Looking forward to the new releases. All the best.
Just graduated in Grade 2 and now I am focusing on Joe Robinson new course - fingerstyle creativity. Joe was guest in ones of Justins workshop showing how to start with thumbpick and travis picking and I found out fingerstyle is the way I want to go. 
I also started to write down notes about what I practiced that day and how I feelā¦ I am learning that, so my practice is more effective and brain remember that.
After I establish this course flow and habit of writing down notes I will mix it from time to time with Justins Grade 3, because this platform is still home to me.
Been playing a lot electric guitar last months, now I will stick back to my lovely acoustic Pioneer.
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Itās going okay, I guess?
I still feel like I am between Grades 3 and 4. There are some things in Grade 4 that I can do, but some things in 3 that are still challenging to me. Iām working on a song that straddles the lineāāCalifornicationā with the bass part includedāand itās been coming along slowly.
One thing that I find continually frustrating is scale shapes. I know themāI really do!ābut when I try to play them with the metronome on I always make mistakes that I feel like I should be able to avoid at this point. I think it might be more of a brain thing than a finger thing. Tempo doesnāt seem to matter, but it might just be that I havenāt got it fully ingrained yet to where I can play them on autopilot.
Iām also back to working on a song I have been playing for a long time but never felt like Iād mastered: āYellow Ledbetter.ā Itās another one that I can play, sorta, but I will still make mistakes with, like hitting too many strings. I also want to start exploring some of the other fills and licks beyond the intro to see if I can put them into my personal ālick library.ā I want to get better at doing the Hendrix-style lead/rhythm playing. I noticed that Justinās lesson on that is a bit further down the path but I feel like the basics are within reach. I just need to do it more and do the olā one bar of the chord, one bar fill type thing.
I am sure if you keep at it you will continue to improve. I look at how I am compared to when I first started and even though progress is slow I am amazed at how far I have come. I like to use ear training to know what the sound is rather than worry about scale shapes even though it takes a long time.
It is good you found a style you like to focus on 