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Posted by: petadeer May 2 2007, 04:35 AM

hey everyone. my name is brian. on may 30, i will have been playing for two years. currently i live in san jose with my occupation as a student. i'm a junior at age 16. seeing the young students of kristofer on freelicks was inspiring. i'm a big fan of paul gilbert. where should i start?

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn May 2 2007, 02:17 PM

That depends on what you have learnt already and where you want to be as a guitarist. I would suggest you look at Kris' metronome lesson, and his how to practice lesson, and use that as a basis to build your practice on, pulling in elements and techniques from lessons that interest you.

Posted by: rokchik May 2 2007, 04:27 PM

Hey welcome. It will be two years for me too but on July 1. I was teaching myself up until I found this site. You know chords a few songs nothing technical but this site is awesome. Lots of great people and the instructors are amazing. I kinda looked around the lessons when I first got here just to see what kinda stuff there was but decided to start from stratch with the beginner lessons just to get my technique down and perfect what I knew. You'll have to tinker with this as you want to keep yourself motivated but you shouldn't have any trouble doing that here....so much cool stuff to learn.

Posted by: Robin May 2 2007, 07:36 PM

I think you should go trough all the beginner lessons. I had played for 4 years before I joined GMC, still learned alot from the beginner lessons, I was a complete newb though.

Posted by: petadeer May 5 2007, 08:42 PM

this site is pretty cool. um i've always been working with a metronome and i did view all the basic videos but they're stuff i already know. the phrasing video seems interesting since that's what i'm having the most trouble with. but i guess there's not much that can be taught there except to just go out and improvise