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Thank you. I think it sounds wonderful and I that you were channeling your creative energy very effectively to improvise that. I'm glad you allowed them to applaud at the end. ?

Thanks. Your Gibson Les Paul looks really awesome too.

Hi Phil, I got an annual full subscription to HP's Students Club in May and it has been great - my guitar playing has improved a lot. I think you'll be very pleased with it. 13 guitars? Wow. I only have one guitar. Nice conversion on the Epiphone Studio Les Paul - it looks great and must sound even nicer.

Thank you, HP! I really appreciate it.

Fellow students, I've recently been trying to memorise all the notes on the fretboard. I've been using this "Fretboard Trainer" internet game and I think I'm seeing some improvement. I'd recommend it. https://www.fachords.com/master-guitar-fretboard-game-intro/ How did you learn/are learning the notes? Any other suggestions? Thanks! ?

Yes, I hope to learn Jobim's "Waves" someday in the future - that's one of my favorites. In the meantime, this morning I was excited to find that I could adapt your "All of Me" chord lesson to a Bossa Nova rhythm too! ? Fellow students, (I hope it's okay to put this link here, HP, please let me know if not) I found drum backing tracks on YouTube that are great to play this lesson with. Here's one of the nicest ones I found:

I think this lesson is great for rhythm practice. After I could play this version, I applied this rhythm to "Night and Day" (a song I was already learning) and now it sounds much more interesting than before. Thanks! ? I wonder what other songs I could apply this to...

I was hoping someone else would tell their story first, but maybe others will also write intros too if I start things off? ? Hi, I’m an English-born American living in Japan. I recently (since the end of February) decided to take up playing guitar again after having stopped for more than a decade. The photo I chose for my profile is a photo of my first guitar - I bought it when I was 15 years old with money from my first summer job. I’m grateful I found HP’s channel; I like his enthusiasm and how he manages to sneak just enough challenge in the lessons so I don’t get overwhelmed but still feel I’m improving. Being a painter, I am also obsessed with colour and I like how HP uses colours in his music. Where are you from? What is your history with the guitar? What guitar technique are you working on at the moment? What is the current technique you can’t get the hang of and need to improve? For me, I’m really enjoying playing the Aeolian mode that I learned in the “Empty Bottle Blues” lesson and one technique I'm finding the most challenging is the “john lee hooker” lick from the “Blues Lick in E”.