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If you are thinking about learning guitar or are just looking for new channels to check out then I hope you enjoyed my list. If you have any recommendations make sure to reach out and let me know what resources you think are great for beginner guitar or music in general.
Read MoreAfter putting the violin aside and playing with a ukulele I started playing the guitar. Before a few years ago I hadn’t played any instruments since I was in elementary school, where I played the snare drum in the school band. I decided I wanted to try to learn to play so my mom gave me her violin from when she was in school and I spent a couple of years playing that but found that without regular instruction I wasn’t making much progress. I ended up getting a ukulele and found that it was much easier to make progress and learn songs and just have fun. After a while of playing the uke my friend, Joey Edwards gave me his electric guitar and I was immediately hooked. The guitar is versatile, sophisticated, and accessible. I have used Youtube, tabs, sheet music and Justin’s Guitar teaching course to learn.
Read MoreHere are my favorite podcasts that I’m listening to now and I found this year! What are your favorite podcasts?
Read MoreI have a complicated relationship with "The Church".
There are two types of churches that I attended growing up. One was the mainstream small-town Christian Church. It had youth groups, Sunday school, basketball hoops, and a few hundred people would show up each Sunday. I was in a youth group that was a religious version of the Boy Scouts called Awanas. We memorized Bible verses, had sack-races and I'm sure there was some kind of music involved. It was not an unpleasant experience and I was pretty good at memorizing lines from the Bible. Later I would despise the idea of rote memorization and to this day do not put much effort into memorizing things. The idea of memorizing information that someone else thinks is important is offensive.