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Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Nov 30 2013, 02:24 PM

Hey guys! I don't know why but I just remembered the day that I found Kris advertisement at Fotolog (old days!), talking about Guitarmasterclass and his approach to guitar.l I remember that I found him very charismatic and decided to visit the site. The rest is history.

So I get curious to know how did you find this amazing site and what was your first thought?

Posted by: jstcrsn Nov 30 2013, 02:36 PM

some crazy video on ultimate , whilst I was searching for alternate picking exercises , but I was confused, the guy keep calling me a prick, freakin rude if you ask me, if I ever see him , he is going to get my bad mother finger

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Nov 30 2013, 02:41 PM

what was the name of the guy?

Posted by: PosterBoy Nov 30 2013, 02:43 PM

I was searching about Rise Against style guitar lessons

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Nov 30 2013, 02:58 PM

Did you say Rise Against? You will find news at the front page soon.

Posted by: Slavenko Erazer Nov 30 2013, 05:41 PM

found it while surfing the internet in 2009. but gave up since it was seeking money for registration

Posted by: klasaine Nov 30 2013, 06:01 PM

Bogdan found me on a Telecaster forum and asked if I'd like to check GMC out.
It's a totally different focus than what I'm usually into and I dig the different perspective.

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Nov 30 2013, 07:48 PM

I remember in 2010, somewhere in March, being with Marius Pop (he was an instructor here) one of my guitarist friends here in Romania and her told me about this amazing place. The next thing I knew, I was checking it out I wrote to Kris in May and sent him a video I did. The rest... well as Gabe said History

Posted by: AK Rich Nov 30 2013, 08:15 PM

You must mean this guy. This is how I found GMC too I think.

Posted by: Headbanger Nov 30 2013, 08:27 PM

I was head hunted...

Posted by: MonkeyDAthos Nov 30 2013, 08:41 PM

I think it was 2 years or 1 before i actually had this account. i can't recall how or why, but i'v came cross Lian's lessons here at gmc and the young me was like WOOOWWW

Posted by: Darius Wave Nov 30 2013, 08:57 PM

I found it through Andre Nieri Than suddenly Kristofer contacted me Anyway I think I've seen some cool vids from GMC before

Posted by: wollace03 Nov 30 2013, 09:39 PM

I really liked the lessons kris did for an online guitar forum around 2006 or so - I really loved the way he did his lessons and his sense of humour, then ordered his course.
then I was checking out his siet "freeguitarlicks"....and after some month I joined GMC....

...and of course, being called a brick by your teacher is somehow special......

Posted by: Doug Lane Nov 30 2013, 10:50 PM

I actually first heard about GMC from a forum post in the first guitar lessons website I subscribed to, Infiniteguitar.com .
Years later, I decided to join GMC after looking more into Kristopher Dahls lessons on youtube, and upon discovering that the community here blows IG out of the water! Infinite guitar has less posts in the forums per week than I alone make in a day here! I still have my subscription to IG, there are great lesson materials there...However, the heart of GMC is in the community, and that is more incredibly precious than a million lesson packages.

Posted by: Monica Gheorghevici Nov 30 2013, 10:54 PM

I think in my case, all started with a challange with myself created by Darek

In June this year, I found that Darek is instructor in GMC and one month I was present at his Vchat as a guest. But then I not searched to much on site and I didn't know to much about GMC.
In July, Darek told me that he make Mentolwhore collab and he would like me to join. I said I can't play metal, I never improvised on metal and it's a level to high for me. He explained me how to think to improvise on metal and told me somethnig that I will surely never forget: "the challanges are what gives us most improvement in how we understand music". I realized that he was right and in that moment I made my account in GMC and of course the challenge with myself: my take for Mentholwhore Now this community became part of my life

Posted by: Todd Simpson Dec 1 2013, 03:07 AM

I was searching the web for a guitar site that looked/felt different that what I'd been used to. So many sites seem to have forums that flowing with negativity and rude folks I found GMC and started reading through the forums and was really impressed wiht how supportive and laid back everyone was. I contacted gmc right away via email and they checked out my youtube channel. This was before the Live Video Chat thing was really going on very much here. I said I"d love to do some live Video Chat Guitar Lessons and bam! Been here ever since

Todd

Posted by: Gitarrero Dec 1 2013, 10:58 AM

Back in the middle ages when the Internet was still somewhat young I saw a video on ultimate-guitar, which led me to a site with weekyl guitar licks by Kris.
Then I joined, and we all know what happened.

Posted by: PosterBoy Dec 1 2013, 04:03 PM

Ooooo Yay!

Posted by: SteveGuitar Dec 1 2013, 05:10 PM

How did I get to know GMC? ... Well Thx Ben for your 30 Shredders : D

Posted by: ElHombre Dec 2 2013, 12:45 AM

I was at the time into rockabilly cause my classical guitar teatcher started teatching me that
Like the next step from the old school stuff

And I found Ivans rockabilly solo, which btw is a great solo

Posted by: Hajduk Dec 2 2013, 01:03 AM

I saw Kris Youtube channel, It was the 5 string sweeping lesson and I was sold I actually saw Jamplay first and tried it out and did not like it then found Guitarmasterclass and the people were nicer and way more liked the format.

Posted by: Vulpine Dec 2 2013, 02:32 AM

around may 2012 I somehow stumbled on this video n was like *a Buckethead lesson* O_O!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71_SP2mxIl8

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Dec 2 2013, 03:52 AM

It's so nice to read each of this posts. It's awesome to see how each of you found the site in different ways but everybody agrees about how beautiful, supportive and friendly this community is. This is the first things that impacted me the first day I was introduced at the site. I remember that the same day I was already jamming with some guys from different parts of the world via msn (old days without Vchats) and I was amazed. The site and the community keeps on growing and the spirit keeps on the same.

Posted by: metalheadlady Dec 2 2013, 04:29 AM

Well I first heard of Blind Guardian somewhere around 2 years ago, and was looking up random stuff about them when I came across Marcus's blog and read the whole thing in one night, where he mentioned being an instructor here. It took long enough, but here I am. I've only been here a day, but I am quite enjoying this place already.

Posted by: Taka Perry Dec 2 2013, 06:23 AM

I didn't actually find GMC, but Bogdan found me on TheGearPage, and that led me to this wonderful website/community I'm very glad that I ended up here, I've learned many things, and hope to learn more

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Dec 2 2013, 11:53 PM

Marcus is a very nice guy! I hope that he visits us again soon. He should check the 40 power metal bands in one song video!

Posted by: metalheadlady Dec 3 2013, 03:28 AM

I agree. That was actually my first thought upon watching it, wondering if he had seen it. I've been trying to find any of the 40 sections there easy enough for me to play on that ( I love the whole thing by the way) and the only part I can come even close to playing is the middle part of the Stratovarious one. It's not even a full part! But hopefully I'll get there eventually.

Posted by: Headbanger Dec 3 2013, 10:49 AM

Hahaha...If I'd have seen this back then...I'd probably have been here at the start. Nice Videos...hilarious Kristopher Dahl Thanks for the laugh today.

Posted by: Darius Wave Dec 3 2013, 02:37 PM

Kris videos are the ones You could watch all over gain and show to Your friends - even those who don't play guitar at all

Posted by: Sensible Jones Dec 3 2013, 04:42 PM

I did a search for some Modal lessons and GMC came up in one of the top search results with a link to David Wallimans lessons.
I didn't join straight away but after hanging around in the Forums reading for a while I was hooked. I then joined and very quickly got into sharing as much of my knowledge as was requested.
As has been said...The rest is History!!

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Dec 3 2013, 09:09 PM

Hey mate! Casually I sent you a PM because of a post that you did at Cosmin's thread. Check your messages!

Posted by: snackajacks Dec 8 2013, 02:12 PM

I got a youtube advertisement saying, If you joined 2 years ago this could have been you, or something in that sense.
And I love how mr dahl handled trolls.

Troll : Man this video sucks
Mr Dahl : Make sure to watch all of them to make sure they all suck !

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Dec 9 2013, 12:28 AM

hahaha where is that dialog?

Posted by: Ladyshredder Dec 9 2013, 11:30 AM

Found it a few years ago through YouTube I think! I was registered with the same username but stopped because I couldn't afford paying at the time I'm glad to be back though. I remember pretty much all the exercises I practiced on this website and they did help a lot through the years!

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Dec 9 2013, 07:43 PM

Hey ladyshredder! Nice to see you here again! Welcome back!!

Posted by: rokchik Dec 10 2013, 12:53 AM

It was just after I started teaching myself how to play guitar. I was bored at work one day and started looking for guitar lessons online and stumbled across GMC. I looked around a bit and when I got home that night I signed up right away

I may not get here as much as I once did but I always come back. This place is great!! I have made many friends and learned so much.

rok

Posted by: Sensible Jones Dec 10 2013, 01:07 AM

It's nice to see you back from time to time too Rok!!

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Dec 10 2013, 05:56 PM

Cool! Based on your join date, you joined here just some days after me.

Posted by: Ladyshredder Dec 10 2013, 10:54 PM

Thank you! Glad to be back!

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Dec 11 2013, 06:34 AM

What are the biggest changes that you find in the site nowadays compared to the last time you've been here?

Posted by: rokchik Dec 13 2013, 12:58 AM

Yes Gabe I did... We have been GMC friends for a long time Been cool watching your career explode!!!

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Dec 13 2013, 04:04 PM

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Dec 17 2013, 11:58 AM

Hehe, I see that there are quite a few stories here

Slav's is missing or is it here? I'd be curious!