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    • April 11, 2011 at 7:11 pm
    JBGuitar
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    Hi Folks- just signed up today for the full site as I have been meaning to for quite some time… First off I just wanted to thank the Instructors and admin here for creating such an incredible resource for all of us to learn and evolve musically! I have been playing for a number of years, and a few months ago I had bought several of Tom’s lessons from his own site- after discussing his playing at length with Derryl Gabel- who has been my guitar teacher for about a year and I just knew that I needed access to all of the amazing instructional content here at IG…

    Loved all of the instructor’s playing- and I feel like I just generally say “Wow!” each time one of them do their thing so I’m hoping hanging out here with tons of other folks who are equally obsessed with improving musically and learning from one another has a concrete impact in my own music as well… I have been playing a LONG time- and still consider myself just a student and I think I will always have that aperture as I still feel just as hungry as when I started playing as a little kid hehe. I’m definitely another huge fusion guy- loving a plethora of musicians so I will just leave it brief like that… Anyway enough of my afternoon rambling- in our cases I think notes paint a better picture- so I have posted a quickie improv from youtube where I was just jammin live on the net to relieve boredom :D…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu0hpjCmAOU

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    • April 11, 2011 at 10:25 pm
    Sean Conklin
    Sean Conklin
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    Great stuff JB, some killer runs in there!

    You’ve come to the right place if you’re into fusion. How long have you been playing? You in a band or anything? Your perspective is right on man, we shouldn’t ever stop being in “student mode” when approaching music/guitar. Kind of like the IG name suggests, it’s all infinite so there’s always more to learn.

    Welcome! šŸ™‚

    • April 11, 2011 at 10:38 pm
    JBGuitar
    Member

    Gracias Sean! I think having that perennial “Student mentality” has really forced me to keep reaching- as you said it is surely an infinite process…that thankfully continues to get more and more interesting as well as complex… In the last several years- I have not had the opportunity to play out again in a band context- heck I still miss the college jam-ish band where we played a number of dives throughout the city… but am planning on doing some new recordings and putting together a band to play out again sometime this Summer.
    I would venture to say I have been playing approximately 25 years or so… oh and sorry that you had to suffer through that 5 minutes of random noodlings- i think looking back on that vid just now I didnt even settle in untikl the 3 min mark(so if anybody else chooses to check it out I would advise forwarding it :D)…
    Perhaps I will post an MP3 up of better quality sometime in the weeks to come… Anyway- your playing is beyond incredible Sean! Thanks for taking the time to post here bro! Cheers-J

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