Hails from Seattle

<-- I don't actually look like that most of the time. It's from Halloween. My wife dressed me as an 80s rocker. The hair is real. m/ But yeah…I’m a metal head. I’ve been playing guitar for about a year. Spent about six months self taught and then found a guy in a local metal band to instruct me once a week. Since then my skill has been on a steady upward curve, making playing a lot more fun. I practice about 2-3 hours a night. I’ve also started to become exposed a much broader range of music (classical, fusion, old surfer rock, etc). Self teaching is still a big part of my process. I switched to Infinite Guitar from Guitar Tricks for a couple of reasons. For one, the emphasis here is on more modern styles and techniques. The instructors skew a bit younger and more in the direction of the kind of music that moves me. There also seems to be a stronger set of technical exercises here. I’ve already incorporated alternate picking exercises and the arpeggios etude into my regular practice. You guys also just have this attitude or feel that appeals to me. You seem to treat your audience as intelligent and your instructors seem excited about what they have to teach. Hope that’s useful feedback. I found the site through an announcement that Martin Miller joined the team. I watched some of his videos and thought “I want to play like that, how did he learn and how does he teach.” I thought about contacting him for some lessons on Skype or just to chat about practice techniques and process, but then I watched a bunch more videos on here and signed up. Figured the sheer amount of stuff on here was worth it. I’m 32 years old so I’m starting guitar very late. But you know T Model Ford didn’t start playing until he was 52 so I figure I’ve got an edge. I know plenty of guys who could shred when they were teens and now they don’t play at all. Those guys are idiots. I wish I had discovered the guitar earlier. By day I make video games! Full time job so I’m trying to do all this as a hobby. My favorite bands (currently) are Augury, Obscura, Protest the Hero, Animals as Leaders, Blotted Science, Atheist, Kalisia (the French prog band), and The Faceless. Lately I’ve been listening to Nili Brosh’s solo album and Prashant Aswani’s new solo album. I don’t have any illusions about being able to play like them any time soon, but I like to have badass heros. 😎 I’m currently learning to play a bunch of songs off an old Six Feet Under album “Haunted.” Simple groovy death metal.