This is my first week as a member of the JG community. My favorite things so far are the “Dog Walk” videos, the online “Practice Assistant”, and Justin’s style/approach. I have built my 20-minute practice Routine for Grade 1 Module 1 and have followed it for 3 days now.
I am inspired by all of the positive information I have seen online regarding the JG team members too. Many thanks to you.
I am stunned by the vast amount of training and capabilities in the JG website and I look forward to trying the App someday soon.
I am over 50 years old and wanted to grow and be challenged. With no background or natural talents in any of the arts, 2 years ago I decided guitar was the answer and jumped in.
I bought a Taylor GS mini-e. I enjoy playing it and I practice 1-2 hours per day everyday with few exceptions. After 2 years of unstructured self-teaching using youtube, I am still a beginner but still really enjoy it. I stumbled onto JG recently when I decided it was time to learn a song I liked. I found one of his training videos. A tremendous help!
Welcome to the community Kevin, we are from Tavares, Florida. I started with Justin almost 8 1/2 years ago at age 60. He has built an amazing resource and team, and the community is amazing. Enjoy!
Hey Kevin, welcome to the community. I’ve got a couple of brothers who live in Florida, one in Sarasota and the other in Jacksonville.
20 minutes a day is great. What made a difference for me (my goal was 15) was making sure I did it every day. Just made it part of my lifestyle, sort of like that first hot drink of the morning.
There’s a great reward for you when you can just sit down, pull a song or two out of your back pocket and play away.
I’m in my 15th year of playing and it all started for me with Justin. Going through some boxes the other day I found his first song book.
Nice dude, you are correct in all those things. Justin is amazing and also the community. I am stoked you found this community site too.
There is so much avalible here, so take your time looking around. The clubs are about to go on holiday for the summer i think , they are amazing supplements to Justins videos. I highly recomment Lee’s live begginers club lessons. Not just his but Richards and Lievens as well. Lee’s are certainly geared for beginners who are ready to learn a few songs, so it will fit right into where you are progressing towards. There might be one more round before summer. Take a look in the club section for all that stuff. Also the older club video lessons you can find links to in the Archive sections. But dont get overwhelmed. Its a marathon, I get it.
So amazing and killer to havee this freedom to play the music you love. Keep learning these basics and soon you wil be ripping it up. The practice routines, I find to be really affective. You also want to be spending time adjusting your routine as you learn, progress and do more lessons. You can use the note spot with each to keep personal inventory and record progress with each excersize. Dont feel wierd about moving past excersizes. Once you feel competence its ok to skip it that excersize each practice and move it to every other, while you add new excersizes.
Whats great is Justin really talks about the excersizes. Often i just take notes and paste them into that note section in my practice routines. Thats way my practice flows and I dont need to always refer to the video every single time.
Keep up the good work, and keep at your practice routine.
You are lucky that you can now follow a structured path with the best site you can find online…this will give your skills a huge upward curve with so much play time
Kevin, welcome to the JG community. Keep up the great work, devoting so much time to playing guitar will pay off huge before you know it. Talents aren’t inherited. We’re not born with them. We earn them. If you have the interest, you’ll do well. It’s an old, untrue concept too, that you learn easily when you’re young and it’s harder with age. Not true!
Hey Kevin. It sounds like you have just the right mindset about learning to play guitar. It’s a long, sometimes frustrating, but ultimately uplifting journey. It took me 3 1/2 years of practicing every day to reach the point where I can say that I play the guitar (clumsily), not just that I’m trying to learn it. Justin’s approach, team and this community forum are all stellar!
Be sure to checkout this 5-year running thread from the “Old Dawgs” on Justin Guitar. At 50, I think you qualify - just barely.
Hello Kevin.
Welcome to JustinGuitar and this fantastic community.
Please take your time to look around and get to know the wider space. View by 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.
Also, please make sure to read the Community Etiquette announcement for some important information and guidance.
If you want to record yourself to show your progress and / or seek feedback there is our ever popular Community Recordings section.
Behind the scenes there is a small and dedicated team who work to make the JustinGuitar experience as good as it can be. Check out the Onboarding sessions provided by Fanny.
Justin also has a small group of Approved Teachers he recommends for people wanting 1-to-1 lessons to supplement his courses - of which I am privileged to be one.
