You will find lots of useful guitar lessons and information here - it works on an "honour system". If you can afford to pay for the lessons then please donate for what you use - imagine it was a pay site. If you can't afford to donate it is no problem at all - the site is free for you :). If I had a donation from everyone who emailed and said how much more they learnt from this site than their "regular" teacher, or what amazing improvements people have made with their playing then I would have a lot more time to develop this site to cover more areas and make it totally rock. Rich people that use the site and don't donate should feel bad ;) BIG THANKS to all of those that do!

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Justin

 

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If you are looking for my blog on GHANA and my other random personal posts - click HERE or on the BLOG button at the top of the page (blue pick!). I was planning to do it on facebook - but I don't have time to maintain facebook, and this way seems a bit cooler, I can add photos and video and all that a bit more easily...

I will try and visit facebook from time to time but it is too time consuming...

I do read ALL my comments on myspace (I have to approve every one) so that is good way to say hi!!! I do also read ALL emails that you send in, but can't reply to them all.

What am I up to???


Latest News - May 2008 The never ending project...
So as soon as I get one bit finished I want to get to work on another area of the site... it really is never going to be "finished" - I guess I have to face that :) lol. Jedi has taken over all the distribution of products now, so I have a bit more time to work on the site and get new lessons done...

I finally started doing some gear reviews after many many requests... so I started with distortion pedals. Seems to going down well so far.

I have also started a series of lessons about blues lead guitar, mainly aimed at the beginner player and explains all the basic and gives you some licks, check it out here...

Got lots of corrections done around the site too, fixing links etc, also got the song area mostly done, just a bit to go on that one now :) Planning on getting a whole lot more done this month so stay tuned for more info...

Translations
I have also finally got someone organising the translations for me - so those that have contacted me about doing some should get an email very soon. All the beginners course is now available in Dutch :) (Cheers Remco) If you can do php editing then please get in touch with me - so I can send you the files to translate, those with no php experience can help too by translating (dictating) the audio from the videos, many of the non english speakers said that would help a lot, and maybe sometime in the future they will turn into subtitles!! Thanks again to everyone that has offered to help, and sorry it has taken so long to get around to organising it! But I really want to work on new lessons, and I get crazy busy!


Personal News - May 2008Roadtrip USA, here I come.... :)

I am about half way through writing my album and I want to get away and get out of the normal life, so I am off doing the classic US road trip - driving from NYC to LA :) Really looking forward to it. Making very few plans, and just going to hang out and have a little adventure. Really looking forward to seeing Nashville, Memphis, Las Vegas, The Delta and seeing where so much of the music I love was born... There are so many things to do and see, and I wonder how much I will get to see. Planning on it taking a month, so I should be able to do it without too much hurry and do some hanging out too. I will be taking a little laptop so will try and do some blogging on the way - will add a link here when I do, probably a blog spot for those that are interested...

Weather here in London is still rubbish, so I have been inside more than I like, but we did have one sunny day last week! Shirts off, catch some sun and get excitied thinking that winter is behind us, and whoosh, back it comes with a freezing bite on the neck... :(

Not a lot else exciting going on really... just trying to write a lot, can be the most frustrating and beautiful thing to do, can take just a few minutes to write a tune, or it can take a few frustrating days, and then still be a crappy song! Unlike practice where you do it and get better each time, with song writing sometimes it's good, and sometimes it is just bad, and I never can tell what it is going to be till the song is out... but I love it still. Found more good ones than bad of late which is always a great feeling.

Oh yeah... and I found these cool lectures on time management by an amazing guy called Randy Pausch. He is dying with pancreatic cancer and gave a series of lectures about living, very touching stuff. Doubt many people could watch it without shedding a tear... he is great guy with such a positive life outlook. I never have enough time, and this chat really gave me some great ideas about how to make the best use of my time, so if you have the same issues, then you might want to check it out - here.

And another thing - I just found out about the Ricky Gervais podcasts... man I have not laughed so much for a long time, check them out at itunes, some are free and very very funny.

Hope you are all well and happy :)

J


Politics and Religion I know I will get a lot of stick for ranting about the state of the world, I am 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...

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 (tax) and spend it on war (corporations). Be prepared to re-think some things... Watch it here!

Ghana
As some of you may know, I have been in Ghana working in an orphanage over Xmas and new year. I raised quite a lot of money through this site and it really helped the kids, but they still need our help! The local school really needs some computers so I am still taking donations and I am trying to get enough to buy a half container of computers to be donated not just to the school in Kpando (in the Volta region) where I was, but to be distributed around many schools in Ghana. If you would like to help - then read more about my charity work here.

Darfur
A few months ago now I was reading my copy of New Internationalist magazine and was shocked (nearly in tears) reading about the horrors that are happening there and I am disgusted that we can sit and watch this genocide happen and do NOTHING. There is about sfa all we can do as individuals but put pressure on our governments to try to pressure the Sudanese governments to allow the UN peacekeepers in and stop arming the Janjaweed militia.

Please check out the following web sites for more information. they estimate between 200,000 and 400,000 dead and over 2 MILLION people displaced... That is just wrong. The world swore that after Rwanda that it would never happen again and it is... We must act or live ashamed to be human. Please act if you can. This should not be happening in the 21st Century. Check out these links and see if it doesn't screw your head up like it did mine...

See what you can do to help at:
http://www.genocideintervention.net
http://www.darfurgenocide.org

I really can't believe that crap like that is happening while we all sit around on the internet learning guitar...

 


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

 

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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

 

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