Start-Up Award - to honour the stellar progress and great enthusiasm of Trevor - tjc_

[Richard_close2u]

Original Forum thread here: Start-Up Award - to honour the stellar progress and great enthusiasm of tjc_

Awarded May 09, 2021

tjc_ (Trevor) started learning with the JustinGuitar Beginner course in December 2020 and jioned the forum in January 2021. Trevor’s learning progress can only be described as stellar and inspiring.

Trevor began to record videos of his progress very early on and began a weekly progress series of video uploads to ‘Audio or Video of You Playing’ that spanned across several months. His enthusiasm, commitment and enjoyment were clear for all to see.

Trevor took an enormous leap into the scary unknown by stepping up to perform at the very first JustinGuitar Community Open Mic in March 2021 … and those butterflies and clammy hands of anxiety must have been heightened by having to wait until the penultimate playing spot (1h 24m 30s). (See archived video of OM1).

Trevor recently announced that he felt the need for a short break as the hours of daily practice had led to a little burn out. We all hope that after a short period of R&R and a short pause to take stock, he makes a swift return and continues to learn, play and enjoy music. And continue to keep a video log too of course.

Bravo Trevor.

[Richard_close2u]

Original responses from original Forum thread.

@DavidP

Was delighted to read this award in the Newsletter. Bravo Trevor, so richly deserved. Your attitude and approach are inspiring. Was a treat to catch your regular “Trevor here …” videos. Given your last RC update, I sincerely hope you saw the announcement in the Newsletter or here on the Forum. You’ll have a great time with Justin. Congrats!

@TheMadman_tobyjenner

Very well deserved. I was really chuffed for Trevor when I saw the newsletter.

His approach and focus shows just what is possible with dedicated practice. And to hang it all out there week after week, with a record of that progress, takes a lot of courage. Well done Trevor, keep at it please. Cheers Toby 8)

@SS7

Congrats Trev! I was really stoked to read about the award in the newsletter, well deserved man!! Looking forward to your return and finally seeing that partscaster you were planning on putting together!

@adi_mrok

Congratulations Trevor, I hope this award will help you move out of plateau and you will be back with us shortly making new awesome updates on your progress

@Jamolay

Yay Trevor. Well deserved. You have also been an inspiration to those of us also at the beginning stage. You are appreciated here! Thank you!

I have missed posts on you impending partscaster. I aspire to do that myself sometime, after my guitar rehab experiences rebuilding and re-fretting. (Oddly, auto-correct changed “refretting” to “regretting”, are they trying to tell me something?)

I will look for your thread and look forward to hearing it in one of your videos, after the tree grows…

@CT

Congrats on the cool award and good to hear you are back playing guitar. You are off to a really good start and the sky is the limit for you. Very nice and well deserved award. Made my morning!

[quote=Tom_B]

Congratulations Trevor - this award is very well deserved! You truly have been an inspiration with your videos - it’s good to see you back on the forum. Welcome back - and keep up the great work! Tom

[quote=mari]

What a great read it is to see you get this award, Trevor, really really happy for you. Glad to hear you’re having a hard time putting your guitar down, too - definitely a good sign!! Enjoy your lesson with Justin Mari

@LievenDV

Thanks for being here and sharing your video’s Trevor. I’m very happy to be awarding this to you and Close2U and I were pretty sure you deserved this recognition Enjoy!

@RodC

Congratulations Trevor, you are a very worthy recipient of this award. Rod.

@Alex6strings

Hi Trevor, congratulations on this award. I haven’t been around for a while but I have seen your name come up a few times in the past few days. I haven’t seen any of your videos yet but I will be sure to check them out. Sounds like you’re making great progress. 8)

@batwoman

Congratulations Trevor. Enjoy your lesson with Justin

@Lord_Gigabyte

Hello Trevor and congratulations! I hope we’ll be seeing you back very soon.

[Richard_close2u]

Condensed replies from Trevor.

@tjc_

Thank you so much DavidP! I think I am almost ready to post another video :). I have honestly had a hard time putting the guitar down.

Thank you Toby!

Thank you SS7! I can’t wait until it gets here… it has already been like a month… what the heck are they growing the tree themselves?

Thank you Adrian!

Thank you to everyone for your kind comments.

[SS7]

Did anyone ever hear back from Trevor? Did he end up having that lesson with Justin? Hope all is well with him.

[Richard_close2u]

I wrote to Trevor just before Christmas. In his reply he described how several hobbies took over his time including: teaching himself to program, then he wrote and published a ‘blockchain tracking application’, he is now fixing mechanical watches.
He did say that he hopes to get back to the guitar soon, and when he does he will join the new community site, because, quote, “You all were so much fun and welcoming!”

[SS7]

Ah that’s good to know, thanks @Richard_close2u! He sure is a man of many hobbies

[TheMadman_tobyjenner]

Great to hear that Richard and I too hope he finds his way here. What he accomplished in short space of time and his contagious enthusiasm, would be an encouragement to any new student

[glpguitar]

Not only to any new student, also to more veteraned students!

[sah22]

@Richard_close2u

In his reply he described how several hobbies took over his time including: teaching himself to program, then he wrote and published a ‘blockchain tracking application’, he is now fixing mechanical watches.
He did say that he hopes to get back to the guitar soon, and when he does he will join the new community site

Wow, sounds like a man of many talents and not enough time.

[Jamolay]

He really put a lot into guitar, his natural talents show and are inspiring.

If he is as capable in his other endeavors, he will be fine and he probably is!

I do miss his input and music here though. He is a good spark.

[batwoman]

Thankyou for the update Richard. It’s good to know he’s still around and achieving things that are important to him.

Thank YOU too Richard for the many hours you’ve spent migrating and editing this series and for all the behind the scenes work you do.

[DavidP]

Can’t say it any better than Maggie did, Richard!