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Hi, I’m JB. I’m a guitar player and teacher and have been for more years than I want to say here. Let’s just say I’m a 60’s child.
I love playing the blues. I love minor keys. I love jazzy blues and rocky blues. I like a bit of funk and some hard rock thrown in for good measure. I have even played some country when called upon to do so. Country is not really my cup of tea, although modern country rock I quite like.
But I have had enough of the late nights, loud gigs with a bar full of drunk people, traveling and staying in motels or crappy rooms provided by those that hire us.
I’m getting older and have slowed down a lot.
So these days, my time is taken up helping others learn how to play guitar. People come to me for lessons and I spend most of my time making video lessons, ebooks and backing tracks for my members at www.PlayGuitarBlog.com
My BIG passion is getting people to understand what playing and learning guitar is really all about.
My ‘Theory’ On How to Learn Guitar
Learning guitar is simple if you have a plan. But if you go from one program to another, one book to another, and waste too much time on the internet looking for free stuff like tab and videos, you’ll most likely fail and give up. Or, at the very least, you will take a hell of a lot longer to get where you wanna go.
That can be very discouraging. And it mostly leads to confusion and frustration from information overload and paralysis by over-analysis. It all becomes too much. You become confused and don’t know what you should really be working on to make fast improvement in your musicianship abilities.
You spend too much time looking for the ‘magic’ bullet instead of just getting on with it and doing the practice that you should be doing.
I like to call this the ‘Dazed and Confused’ Syndrome. (Reference to Led Zep.)
Unfortunately, about 96% of all beginner guitarists become afflicted with this disease.
That means there’s only about 4 out of 100 beginners that go on to keep playing for years to come.
But if I can just help 1 of those 96 to see the light, so to speak, and get them doing things the right way to become a good player, then I am a very happy man.
JB
