That’s good to hear, Rogier 
. Seems, that you had quite a tough week being sick. Hope you’re feeling fine now 
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Thanks Nicole,
Yes, it was a strange week for sure, almost no memory and floating and sweating all day, but it’s all good except for some very small things. and I actually said way too much about it, but it just went a bit weird and it kept coming up all the time 
Greeting and time to catch up on a lot of guitar playing time because little has come of that…
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Get well soon.
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Hi everyone. We had a special barbecue after the show to celebrate. A lot of us were nervous about the pending hurricane. The heart of the storm passed through all day yesterday and last night. My house is still standing and I didn’t end up in Oz. Here are a few pictures we took.
I made my famous grilled bs y back ribs, potato salad and smash burgers. My friends from Mexico never heard of potato salad before they tried mine and now their little boy is addicted to it.
It was great fun. Thanks for the opportunity.
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Hey Jeff,
That looks a great place and a fun way to do the OM!
Glad you didn’t get blasted by the hurricane
Cheers
Ruaridh
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When might the video of last Saturdays OM 18 be posted, and will it be posted to the YouTube community? Thanks.
Nice, sounds great there’s nothing like a good cyclone party we’ve have a couple of those:+1:
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Hope everyone had a terrific time and enjoyed performing and audience-ing 
I’m looking forward to catching the recording
@SDKissFan - Looks awesome Jeff!
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Hi Jeff, as soon as you mentioned that you were having a BBQ with friends I thought my Spanish speaking audience may have increased for this OM. I’m glad they enjoyed it.
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Mal, this one is a bit delayed unfortunately, partially because the first render was corrupted (don’t worry, recording is fine!) and partially because we’re still getting sorted with the new YT channel.
@adi_mrok and @Richard_close2u are working on it.
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Thanks JK, that is what I figured. The YT community channel remains stubbornly unoccupied. So will all the past OMs be migrated to the YT channel?
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Yeah I do believe that’s the plan
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I think Richard @Richard_close2u has already migrated the past events. They are unlisted though, which is why they don’t appear on YouTube under channel videos.
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What I understand is that the OMs are still mainly intended for the community so the only thing that has changed is that they are stored in a Justin Guitar Community YT channel and not kindly hosted by the YT channel of one of the community members. So the videos are going to be still unlisted (not fully public), but they can be accessed from anyone who has the link. If you go to a YT channel that has not public videos it’s going to say that it has no videos. I understand this could change in the future for the JGC YT channel as videos intended to be fully public may be uploaded.
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@dobleA Andrés, I stand to be corrected but the Community OM videos are actually public. Currentlythey were uploaded onto @adi_mrok’s YT channel. All that is changing is that the videos will now be hosted on a JustiunGuitar channel and access will be public.
The participation in the OM is for active Community members. This contrasts with the periodic Live Stream events that Justin runs that would be open to followers of JustinGuitar. The third Live Stream event was held recently and it streamed live to the world at large, unlike the OM which has participation managed through the Community.
For those eagerly awaiting the recording of OM 18, I can confirm that it has been uploaded to the channel and just awaiting the addition of the chapters for each performer before being published.
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They are indeed public on Adi’s channel, but as of yet unlisted on Justin’s community channel
It’s on its way folks, not long now. 
Ladies and gentlemen … we are floating in space.
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Hi @DavidP and @liaty. I just checked and the OMs are now public (and searchable) in both channels. This shouldn’t deter any member of the community to participate in them. He or she should be proud of his or her individual progress, be ready to have fun, do not compare with anyone else, and be ready to ignore any nonsense comment someone can post. Once he or she do his or her first AVOYP the only big difference is that he or she has to attempt it in one take (of course restarting after a false start or keep going after stumbling on any sections is part of the exercise).
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I’m glad to have participated in this one and see how new members are stepping in and repeat participants take new challenges and get on top with them. @SDKissFan and @docdanguitarman did very well on their debut. Sorry Danny for crashing into your practice the night before while checking my zoom link. @Jenndye429 was very good as the MC.
Two anecdotes about my participation: one is that I didn’t try to play with the poncho on until the morning of the OM day. So although this one it’s not very tick I was too warm with it despite the air conditioning being on and that discomfort increased my nervousness of not being of able to fingerpick the introduction. I was playing it once more before my turn and my wife asked why are you still practicing it. She told me that I had played it for a long time and for sure I knew that part very well. I went to the wrong fret at the start of the second introduction/interlude (third instrumental), but I quickly moved to the right one after hitting a couple of extra notes and managed to keep going.
The second anecdote is that with the thing of taking out the poncho to be dressed more appropriately for the second song my concentration plummeted and my nervousness skyrocketed so I had very shaky hands when I started my second song but once I started singing I managed to get back in track.
The same that @NicoleKKB I can say than even after a third OM participation, nervousness is still there, but I can say that despite what I said above it was not as bad as with the first one.
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