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Posted by: blubb Sep 25 2011, 11:46 AM

Hi @ll,

as a new member of GMC some information about myself.

My Name is Bodo, 43 years old, living in Germany.

I bought my first guitar 1996, a Japan Strat, the first Korg Pandora Pocket Multieffect and a book called "Rock Guitar Bascis".
Planned to completely do it myself, and , what a surprise, the plan failed.
After six months my motivation reached its limit and the guitar wasn't touched anymore.
I started a new run every 1 or 2 years, but it ended the same way.

Around 2004 i decided to join a class of guitar beginners in an adult education center to learn the basics.
I bought an acoustic guitar and had 4 semesters of guitar education in that group.

But the songs we played were, hm, ... not my prefered music. 70th and earlier.

I met a guitar player and instructor, who was playing in a locally well known band, at my age and, more important, with the same music preference.
We started with songs from Scorpions, Metallica, Saxon and Billy Idol. Only the rhythm parts, as i'm still a beginner, but that was really fun.
Unfortunately that ended, because i had not enough time to practice from lesson to lesson. This was one year ago.

In the course of time i modified my Strat and replaced the neck and bridge single coils with 2 humbuckers, replaced the standard volume with push/pull switch to switch the neck hb for use as a sc.
Bought a pod xt and marshall mx30dfx, used the guitar port for a while and tried recording on the PC. So a big part was playing with the technics

So, as you can see on the list of bands above, i'm basically focused on the metal part of music.

I found Adrian Figallo's lesson "Los Ramones" at GMC, playable for me i thought and i like the song and the sound.
Practicing that song with the background track is really great, and thus i become a GMC member.

That's it for now.

Cheers, Bodo

Posted by: MonkeyDAthos Sep 25 2011, 12:00 PM

Welcome to GMC !!

And remember!! A strong will is need to be a good guitar player! such as practice

Posted by: dark dude Sep 25 2011, 06:38 PM

Welcome, Bodo!!

Keeping your motivation up is incredibly important when learning guitar - I'm sure the community here will help with that

Any questions, please do ask.

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Sep 25 2011, 06:58 PM

Cool introduction Bodo - welcome to GMC!

I'm here if you have any questions about anything GMC related.

See you around the forum,
Bogdan

Posted by: Michael AC Sep 25 2011, 08:38 PM

Welcome to the community! It is a great place for encouragement so you keep progressing!

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Sep 25 2011, 08:48 PM

Welcome to GMC Bodo, that's a cool story. Interesting to hear what you have done with the Strat, I like Strats too, and modded ones

Have fun here, and please don't hesitate to ask if you need anything

Posted by: Sinisa Cekic Sep 25 2011, 10:25 PM

Welcome to GMC man ! You have come to the right place and at the right time !

Posted by: Daniel Realpe Sep 26 2011, 01:28 AM

welcome to GMC!

Make sure you let us know of any problem we might help you with

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Sep 26 2011, 08:19 AM

Hey man! Great introduction! I hope that GMC became the place that you needed to keep motivated to improve your guitar playing!
Let us know if you need some help.
Enjoy the site!

Posted by: nikeman64 Sep 28 2011, 04:04 PM

Welcome to GMC !

Best place for progress.

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Sep 30 2011, 08:26 AM

Welcome Bodo! there's a famous vocalist in my country named just like you he plays in a known rock band in here! Well, start exploring as much as possible and never shy away from asking anything you wish to know! Feel free to join the video chat sessions taking place everyday! Mine is happening each Thursday at 8 o'clock London time! see you around man!

Posted by: Ben Higgins Sep 30 2011, 03:44 PM

Welcome to GMC Bodo

As Cosmin said, be sure to check out the video chats during the week. All you need to do to watch them is click on 'GMC CHAT' at the top of the main page next to the search bar and you're in !

Posted by: thefireball Sep 30 2011, 08:36 PM

Welcome! Welcome!

Posted by: Alex Feather Dec 17 2011, 03:14 AM

Awesome!!! Happy to see you here!!!!!

Posted by: Todd Simpson Dec 17 2011, 03:22 AM

ALEX: Better late than never, but this original post was from September of this year. But belated welcome is still a welcome!