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Justin

Small Town Eyes - Justin's debut album - OUT NOW My first solo album is a vocal alternative pop folk album, a collection of 13 songs, there are 2 solo acoustic guitar instrumentals, but it's all song based, catchy but a little left of centre. You can hear sample tracks on myspace and watch me play some of the tunes on YouTube. And there are review links at www.justinsandercoe.com. NOW AVAILBLE WORDLWIDE Check my 'artist' web site to see who is selling the CD and the downloads. (click the image on the left). iTunes worldwide - or check web site for other sellers.

Come from YouTube??? Get the Lesson ID at the start of a video - look it up in the Lesson Index and you'll find the lesson. USTREAM TV - Live Weekly Broadcast Come hang out every Friday! 6pm UK, GMT 1pm US, EST MYSPACE I do read ALL my comments on myspace (I personally have to approve every one) so that is good way to say hi!!! Plus you can hear some of the tunes from my album "Small Town Eyes" if you wanna try before you buy ;)

What am I up to???

Latest 10 Lesson Updates

10-03-10 • NEW LESSON on Modes: Calculating the PMS (the easy way!)
09-03-10 • NEW LESSON on Modes in Parallel - I think the series is shaping up very well...
06-03-10 • NEW LESSON on Recording Electric Guitars with guest writer Cesar Gimeno Lavin.
04-03-10 • NEW PERFORMANCES - Two live vids from my album launch gig at Bush Hall.
24-02-10 • NEW LESSON on Listening to the bass note when transcribing.
23-02-10 • NEW LESSON play 12 Bar Blues in 12 Keys very old video, new web page, good lesson.
18-02-10 • NEW LESSON on writing chord charts + template.
15-02-10 • NEW LESSON on writing you own chord lyric sheets + template! (new series).
05-02-10 • NEW SONG - 37min video and TAB for my song From Katie's Window.
27-01-10 • NEW SONG - 28min video and TAB for my song Page 99 is now on my 'artist' site.

Can you help with translations? I am trying to get all the videos on the site translated to pdf documents (hopefully you may have seen this!) and we need volunteers to translate (and check) the word docs. We have some people already, but particularly need Swedish, Romanian, Russian and Chinese translators to help check the files we have, and we still need help in other languages too. Please contact us at translate[at]justinguitar.com and my friend Caroline (who organises it for me) will be in touch. Thanks, J.

Brian May digs justinguitar.com!

It is a real honour for me when someone I have a huge amount of respect for likes what I do, and little while ago the legendary Queen guitarist, Brian May, mentions my site in his online blog, Brian May's Soapbox. It took me a while to add a link here, because I thought it might make me look a bit full of myself, but hey, I'm proud of this! Click here to go to his web site and see it (it was posted on 29th May 2008) or click the image on the left to see a pic of it!

Latest News - March 2010 - part 2 ;)

This 'being an artist' thing is quite testing mentally, let me tell you! It's been a rollercoaster of emotions the last couple of weeks, mostly good but the dips have been scary. There had been an overload of things to do, particularly surrounding the album launch gig at Bush Hall, which although was quite a task to organise, I had an awesome night and loved every second of it. Lots of love to y'all that came to see the show and to my band who I thought played great. I've put a couple of songs up on YouTube.

I'm re-writing my news because I didn't want people to get the wrong idea about some things I said in the last one, and I think I can explain better how I feel now that I'm out of the storm that started brewing in my head...

After the gig on Sunday I was really up, had such a great time was really feeling on form. I suspected that the following week might be a bit stressful, so I took Monday off and went for a nice walk in the country by a river.

Tuesday morning I got a call from Phil (who is looking after my marketing) with some news about chart position and sales. I can only get access to UK sales (I won't know about the rest of the world for a few months, it takes digital retailers ages to send in reports it seems!) but I was pretty disheartened to find out I had sold less than 200 copies of the album (including pre-orders) and was placed at #306 in the charts.

I have an amazing life, and am honoured by you wonderful people that support me and dig what I do, but I was surprised that so few people had pre-ordered the album. I know times are tough all over the world and it seems I was being pretty unrealistic about the amount of people that would pre-order the album.

I wrote and sent the newsletter out on Wednesday, and I was feeling pretty down about the whole experience. Maybe it was a bit strong, but the one thing I try and give you guys is honesty, and at that moment I was feeling pretty low. I kinda pinned some hopes on a couple of thousand pre-sales, and a descent chart position would have enabled me to get some tour supports and take the music out there.

I spent yesterday taking stock of things and trying to work out what to be doing with myself, and decided that all I wanted to do was play guitar. Should have thought of that earlier, because within 30 minutes I had played out all my frustrations, had a couple of solid song ideas and a couple of riffs and was back to my positive self. :) Reminded me of how lucky I am to be able to hang out and play guitar all day, that I'm in a position to make records and that I get to help lots of people all over the world enjoy playing music.

I'm off to do my kung fu training now for a couple of hours and then I'm looking forward to justinguitar live on ustream tonight. I'll probably add some more news here when I get back too...

Wishing you all love and laughter, J.

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Sounds I make with the help from...

Justin plays Maton Acoustic Guitars, TC Electronic Effects, The Gig Rig Pedal Switcher, Mesa Boogie Amplification, AER Acoustic Amplification, DR Strings, The G-Lab Wah Pad and Kyser Capos. Thanks. Check them out, all seriously great tools for making happy sounds in your ears!

Global Issues

I'm just a guitar player, but I also care deeply about the state of the planet and maybe I can introduce you to some things you are not aware of, or just things that I care about. So take time to read the articles if you are interested, otherwise just turn the page and ignore...

Malaria - The quiet killer
I wonder how many of you ever thought that in the time it takes to watch one of my 10 minute videos that 20 children in Africa will die from malaria. Shocking isn't it. There are over 1 million deaths around the world from this killer, and it is preventable and curable. 90% of all malaria deaths are in Africa, and 70% of those are children under 5 years of age. The best way to prevent malaria is for children to sleep under treated mosquito nets. When I volunteered at the orphanage in Ghana early last year, none of the kids had nets. They all do now, but there are many hundreds of thousands of kids with no nets and no protection from the little buggers while they are asleep. If they do catch it, they can't afford treatment, a simple case of taking a tablet for a few weeks. There are many organisations that are working on distributing nets and I would urge you to support them, financially and by talking about this problem. Please check out the following sites: Malaria No More UK, Malaria No More US, click on donate, and help save a child's life. Thanks for taking the time read this, and I hope it moves you to act.

Zeitgeist - The Movie
I am sure that this is not the whole truth, but it is certainly interesting, and if you have not seen it then you should certainly check it out. If 10% of the film is true then we live in a very scary world indeed. A very thought provoking movie. It talks about religion, 911 and the way that we a ripped off by governments: Take money from the poor (collecting tax) and spend it on war (give the money to corporations that make weapons). Be prepared to re-think some things... Watch it here!

Darfur
Nearly two years ago now I found myself nearly in tears reading an article about the situation in Darfur in the New Internationalist magazine. I mentioned it in my 100th YouTube video and I hoped that it would make the video out of date very quickly. But it hasn't. More than 300,000 people dead and 2.5 Million people displaced. It is just disgusting that nothing is being done by international governments. Guess there is no profit to be made there... no oil to plunder. Read more about it - The Darfur Genocide and write to your local senator / MP.

Taxi To The Dark Side
While training in Spain my mate Dave played me an amazing film called "Taxi To The Dark Side". It is the story of a taxi driver who was wrongly taken into custody in Iraq and tortured and killed in prison. It shows many interviews with politicians and some creepy dudes that did the torture that killed the taxi driver. The US can choose definitions of words for ANY international agreement that it signs. In this case they define "torture" in a most unusual way. Guantanamo Bay is also discussed, as well as the torture techniques they use. It is a really shocking film that I would urge everyone over 18 to watch. See the trailer HERE and wiki info HERE. Let's hope that Obama puts this right...

Ghana
I spent Christmas and New Year 2008 in Ghana working in an orphanage. I met some amazing people and it really changed my headspace. It is a year on now and I still think of them often, and help them financially from money I make on this site. I maintain a web site for them - if you are interested in volunteering somewhere, then I highly recommend it. Just get in touch with Venus, his details are on the web site. You can read about it and see some video of our adventure in my blog, here. I raised quite a lot of money through this site and it really helped the kids, we got them new cloths, a bed, painted their room, bought medicines, paid for schooling, bought them chicken, but their expenses are ongoing and I send money to them every few months (from the donations received from this site). If you would like to help please see their web site (Ryvanz-Mia Orphanage).

 

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Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told.
Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
H L Mencken

 

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism.
Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
Noam Chomsky

 

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If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein

 

Many people die with their music still in them.
Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live.
Before they know it, time runs out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes