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Posted by: Sigfridsson Oct 29 2008, 02:18 PM

Hey everyone!
I've actually been quite sneaky and posted a bit before I actually introduced myself, so maybe it would be a nice time to introduce myself now!

I'm Johan Sigfridsson, I'm originally from Sweden and I'm currently living and working in Milan, Italy since 1,5 years back now!
I have been playing guitar Since I was roughly 16 years old, but right before I started working in Italy I ran in to the wall and felt I was stuck, I wasn't improving anymore as a guitar player, this ultimately caused me to stop playing and I have hardly touched the guitar since I moved.

The main reason why I was feeling stuck is because I never knew anything about music theory what so ever and every time I tried learning I just ended up feeling discouraged and stupid since it didn't make any sense to me.

About one month ago I picked up my guitar again and just out of pure luck I found this site!
It's great and it's such a nice confidence boost for me as well since all the basic theory I've been reading through here on the forums, especially the stuff written by Andrew actually makes sense to me!

In a sense, all this feels like starting over again and what a start!!

I wish I would have found out about GMC earlier!

Posted by: OrganisedConfusion Oct 29 2008, 02:21 PM

Welcome to GMC, Johan. Good luck with your learning here and don't forget to ask questions of you're stuck with anything

Posted by: skennington Oct 29 2008, 02:22 PM

Welcome Johan, I'm sure there are many here that feel the same way. Wish you well man and enjoy the site.

Posted by: Capt.Z Oct 29 2008, 02:22 PM

Welcome! New members rule!

Posted by: Sigfridsson Oct 29 2008, 02:22 PM

Don't you worry, I'm sure you'll get a chance to answer a lot of my silly questions regarding music theory in the future!

Posted by: OrganisedConfusion Oct 29 2008, 02:23 PM

There are no silly questions. Well unless you suddenly forget your name and need to ask us

Posted by: Sigfridsson Oct 29 2008, 02:27 PM

I seriously hope I won't have to ask people what my name is anytime soon!

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Oct 29 2008, 02:36 PM

Hello and welcome to GMC Johan!! Please ask if you have any questions here in the forum Andrew's theory lessons are unique guideline and you will be able to grasp all the theory you have been missing very fast..

Posted by: Chokehold Oct 29 2008, 02:38 PM

Welcome to GMC välkommen

Posted by: Muris Varajic Oct 29 2008, 02:43 PM

Welcome Johan.

Posted by: Jose Mena Oct 29 2008, 02:46 PM

Well, you found it now, Welcome to GMC.

Posted by: Gerardo Siere Oct 29 2008, 02:48 PM

Welcome to GMC, feel free to ask anything you want about guitar in the forum.

Posted by: Sigfridsson Oct 29 2008, 02:53 PM

Yeah I really hope so, I mean for an example some parts of it I realize that I already understood I just didn't have words for them.

But yeah for now I'm just starting out by making sure that I get a nice knowledge of the basic things and then I want to move on to learning some scales and how to actually utilize them to write licks etc!

Posted by: Emir Hot Oct 29 2008, 03:01 PM

Welcome Johan, it's great that you joined GMC.

Posted by: Smells Oct 29 2008, 03:09 PM

Welcome to GMC Johan

Posted by: Lian Gerbino Oct 29 2008, 03:23 PM

welcome to the site man!

Posted by: fatb0t Oct 29 2008, 03:25 PM

Alright someone else interested in theory! This is a good web resource for theory, PM me if you want additional outside sources. (I cheat on GMC with a few other theory websites )

Posted by: Dejan Farkas Oct 29 2008, 03:27 PM

Welcome to GMC Johan

Posted by: Velvet Roger Oct 29 2008, 03:58 PM

Welcome to GMC!

Posted by: Tolek Oct 29 2008, 06:16 PM

Welcome! Have a great stay. You´ll definitely have some motivation with us.

Posted by: Piotr Kaczor Oct 29 2008, 06:31 PM

Welcome to GMC Johan!

Posted by: Nazgul Oct 29 2008, 09:06 PM

Welcome to GMC!

Posted by: Jerry Arcidiacono Oct 30 2008, 10:11 AM

Welcome to GMC Johan
I hope you like Italy

Posted by: Zizi Top Oct 30 2008, 10:22 AM

welcome to GMC

Posted by: Sigfridsson Oct 30 2008, 10:44 AM

I do indeed like Italy! Just a shame that I haven't had that much time to travel around yet, would love to see more of it.
Only really been in Milan so far really and Rome a couple of times, but always for work, so haven't had much time for sightseeing.

Posted by: Jerry Arcidiacono Oct 30 2008, 10:51 AM

Great to hear from you! On a side note, I saw Rome very quickly just one time, after a gig
This is a real shame

Posted by: Sigfridsson Oct 30 2008, 11:06 AM

Let me know if you ever play in Milan and I'll come listen!

Posted by: Praetorian Oct 30 2008, 05:43 PM

Welcome! You are going to love it here!!!

Posted by: Canis Oct 30 2008, 05:57 PM

Welcome to the best place on the tubes, Johan ^^

Posted by: Ian Bushell Nov 6 2008, 10:31 AM

Welcome to GMC:)