Hi all,
I’m Jess from Australia, residing in London for the next year.
I came across Justin’s YouTube channel probably 10 years ago when I first picked up a guitar…when he used to sign off each video with a snippet of a Tazmanian Devil!
Since then I’ve been on and off playing (more off than on) but recently felt the itch to pick it up again so I found a cheap secondhand acoustic and now I’m starting back at Justin’s wonderful resources.
I’m super impressed to see how far he and his team have come in building out this site, the learning resources, and the community. Speaking as a learning experience designer, I can safely say it’s brilliant!
For the most part I have learned guitar in a fairly siloed and private way but I’d always lose momentum eventually. As the saying goes I think doing it together gets you further, not to mention it’s far more fun. So, here I am!
Feel free say hi and if you happen to be in London, perhaps we can arrange a coffee meet up even
Thanks for reading, take care and enjoy your guitar learning, folks!
If you are restarting and have already seen how much the website and the learning path has changed and improved, it would be worth your while starting with Grade 1 lesson 1.
Why ? It will cement the knowledge and techniques you already have but you will also be able to identify bad habits, easily picked up through self learning I had loads before finding Justin a decade back. Also if you ever did any of the old Beginner Course there is now a shed load of new material and teaching methods.
This will also help you find your current playing level and allow you start building from there in Justin’s structured fashion.
SSSst about that Devil ,Our cat was shocked every day when she heard it screeching
Very occasionally when I watch old videos again it happens and even on TV with nature documentaries she reacts shocked I see (but I like them a lot )
Hi Jess, welcome to the community forum. I second @TheMadman_tobyjenner Toby’s suggestion. I had a few years of guitar experience spread over 40+ years, but I also started at Grade 1 to unlearn bad habits. I even repeated last year to brush up on my strumming. If you have experience designing for learning, you will appreciate much of the new information Justin has added, especially the new Grade 3 where Justin spends a lot of time explaining how to learn guitar and his best practices of learning (hint: look at the first video in each of the 8 modules in Grade 3). Have fun getting back into playing the guitar.
Hello Jess.
Enjoy your time in England.
Welcome to JustinGuitar and this fantastic community. Please take your time to look around and get to know the wider space. https://community.justinguitar.com/categories
We are a supportive and encouraging group of students and guitarists from across the world. Essentially, we are all here for music and to improve as players. We truly are a ‘community’. Members help and support one another and a friendly, positive attitude underpins this. We hope that all - young or old, experienced or new players - adopt and foster the pay-it-forward ethos that Justin personifies and embedded all those years ago when he started the website and forum.
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