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Mike,
You
were
there at the
right time, with the right song, presented in the
most wonderfully "learnable" way.
You seem like such a great guy and
what you've
done for me and others I'm sure will stay with us forever.
I'm full of appreciation and just wanted to tell you how much you've
touched my life.
John
R. CA.
USA
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Mike,
I have been playing since the age of 11 and am now almost thirty but i
got stuck in a rut and stumbled across your good self on Youtube many
months ago.
Since then I have passed on your site to 7 other people and they all
love your teaching methods as much as me.
You are fantastic and you helped me come up with some new
material for my album i am working on.
I have picked up some excellent blues techniques and even tho I have
been playing for a long time it never hurts to go back to basics and I
am truly grateful for the help I have found your videos so far.
Laura S.
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Hi Mike,
Thank you for your help and
patience, I was able to download all the videos and am delighted.
I have enjoyed
my guitar more
in the past week than I have done in the past 3 years since I
discovered your website.
Thank you once again and will look forward to progressing further with
your excellent teaching method.
Best Regards,
Bob M. Northern Ireland.
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Hi Mike,
I've only just seen your
first instructional video
and I've learned more in
20minutes than in the last
2 months.
Can you help with another
problem. I'm not little
and I'm having problems
with conventional F chords.
are there any alternatives?
Thanks
Matty
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Hi
Mike,
I feel I must congratulate you on your superb choice of tunes
for us novices to have a go at. They seem to fit the part perfectly not
to difficult and sound good to me even on my first attempts,
although I've a long way to go to play them properly.
Having tried a few tutorial sites on the internet over the
past 12 months yours is the best byfar. Your short freebies (a bit of
spanish, vestapol etc.) you send out are great motivators and at 72
years of age I need all the motification I can get. But I do really
enjoy trying to play the guitar, and it beats watching some of the
rubbish on TV.
I hope your side of your business prooves profitable you deserve it and
I wish you the best of luck for the future.
Many thanks,
Ken Harrison
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Dear
Mike,
Just wanted to thank you for all the great e-mails with songs to try! I
am really enjoying the guitar and so is my family, listening to me
play. I have a long way to go yet but i'll keep plugging along.
I have blackbird down and also tears in heaven, although it's still
rough ;-) I am still working on never going back again....I
love that song and I will someday get it...but like you said the timing
is really tough, I'll keep working on it!!
Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for your help in my playing, your
videos are just great!
Monique
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Dear
Mike,
I am a 63 year old man who has had 3
rounds , 2 heart attacks, triple bypass
surgery and my last great adventure was lyarnx cancer I have licked all
3 of
them the only thing that I have left now is a feeding tube in my
stomache , that
is where the guitar sits.
I just wanted to tell you I have learned more just by
watching your free videos then I could learn out of any books I could
of had.
Always wanted to learn how to play the guitar, but I couldnt afford it
so I
found a real deal on an electric guitar and I bought it is not the best
but it
serves its purpose although I am on limited income thanks to you I have
learned
a little bit and I am getting there slow but sure.
When the feeding tube comes out I will be able to play more often..
Thanks for the videos they have been
very helpful. All the videos that I have looked at on the web your
videos are
the best.. My fingers do hurt but I enjoy learning. Thanks for the
videos.
Ed Sharon, PA USA
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Hi
Mike
Just like to say your videos are great.
I've only been playing guitar for 5 months and was getting nowhere
until I found your web site.
I've down loaded the
videos and now I can actually play something!
The way you explain them step by step is so easy to follow. if I hadn't
found your
site I think I would of given up. Must go now as I've just downloaded
another one to learn.
Thanks once again
Mark Waterfall
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Mike,
I think your videos are great. Thank you so much for sending them!
I've been playing guitar for 4 years, and yet, I know barely anything.
I have a years worth of REAL experience. You've taught me
more things in this year than I have learnt in the past 3
years.
Again, thank you, so much.
Ash.
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Mike,
These instructional videos are fantastic.
I am 40 years old, I regretted that I never learnt an instrument and
decided
that this was something I wanted to do in my 41st year.
These instructional videos are fantastic and I just what I wanted to
tell
you that they have given me a flying start.
Please continue with the lesson videos, but instructional videos on
learning
tabs would be sensational.
I look forward to hearing more from you.
Cheers
Darren Longridge
Australia
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Mike,
Thanks for the new pieces. They are absolutely great.
I can't believe how much I have learned from the videos. I
never thought I could actually learn
how to play the guitar!!!
I thank you for all the instruction, they have
made all the difference.
Best regards,
Nefi
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Hi
Mike,
Just thought I would drop you a quick note...
I've been having lessons now for 4 years and slowly but surely, making
progress.
I came across your website about 3 weeks ago and thought 'Oh great,
another how to play guitar really quick website that says the same old,
same old stuff'. Boy did I get that wrong!
I downloaded your trial Eric Clapton 'Tears In Heaven' video and was
playing it end to end in about 2 hours - I was soooo happy!
I then took the plunge and purchased the Fleetwood Mac video (always
loved that song!), that's taken a little longer to play fluently but
I'm all over it. I ordered it Wednesday and it arrived the following
Monday
- Very impressive considering I'm in Australia
Just wanted to let you know, keep up your great website!!!!!
Best Regards
Mark Rettig
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Hi
Mike
Just like to say thank you for the free guitar lessons.
I've just started practicing after about 10 years abstinence!
Surprising how
quickly the fingers harden up after all this while. I remember when I
first
started my fingers hurt for weeks.
I'm probably one of your oldest students, I am now on long term sick so
this
gives me plenty of time to practice. I have arthritis in my
hands and
playing the guitar helps to keep the fingers mobile, with your help and
the
resources available on the net it has made learning again much more
enjoyable and progress is much quicker.
It is always easier to learn if you can hear and see the way guitar is
played and because of restricted finances any free stuff I can find is
always very much appreciated.
Yours is the only free video lessons I've found so this is a great big
THANK YOU for allowing people like me to share and learn whilst
expecting nothing in return.
I look forward to your next lesson.
Kindest regards
(No Name Sent)
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Hi
Mike,
I am one of your older students, 44 years old.
Just like to thank you for
the videos and the inspiration I have got out of them, I had a 21 year
break
from guitar and have learned and gained more experience over the last
few months than ever before.
Many thanks once again,
Graham Leadbetter
Near Glasgow, Scotland
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Hiya
Mike,
Site looks great !!!!
Gotta tell ya, I have been playing for a number of
years, and my daughter recently wanted to start. Well, it was
just after
she took up learning that I happened across your site.
What I really like
about it is I can sit her down to follow your lead and she is learning
quickly. Coupled with that, I have found the site an
inspiration and have
improved my playing significantly .. you must be an inspiration !!!!
Thanks for a great idea and I hope the site continues to grow
John -- Canada
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Dear
Mike,
The lessons are going great, I really really enjoy what you are doing
for not just me but the world, and to me thats a really big thing
...when you can do something for the whole world at one time.
I'm not a beginner at all and yet I still find your lessons very
pleasant and at many
times very insightful, take that from a veteran of 18 years playing
guitar.
To you I salute you sir keep it up!!!
Kevin Bishop
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Mike,
I thought I’d take the
opportunity to drop you a quick email and say . . .
Thank You!
For your generosity firstly, the videos you have
produced and made available for free download are fantastic.
I hadn’t played the guitar since I was at school and it was
always one of those things I wanted to take up again but never did.
There were always too many problems, too much expense with guitar
tutors and (dare I say) too much time required for practice!
What your videos have shown is that (re)learning to
play the guitar needn’t be too difficult and can
actually be fun! (especially your comments in your
email of early February) It’s obvious that you get a
lot of enjoyment out of playing and it’s great that
the enthusiasm comes across in the videos.
Especially the beginners videos which show how great the guitar can
sound with 4 basic chords and some well practiced
picking!
I understand you are running a business but I have to say you have a
great way of attracting customers! I shall certainly be investing in a
couple of your videos (and investing is the right word given the
quality of the teaching!), it’s just a shame I missed
out on the recent offer for ‘Layla’ and
‘Vincent’.
(That’ll teach me to go away and not check my emails!)
Anyway, I look forward to more great videos in the
future (another Spanish piece or an extension to the
existing piece would be wonderful . . . . ) and I look
forward to making the first of what I hope will be
many purchases in the future.
With best regards,
Chris Bulmer
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Hi
Mike,
Just a quick line to say thanks for all the hard work you've put in to
make your site the best on the web.
I'm enjoying learning to play the guitar more each day, I'm
even trying to learn some of the theory and learning to read music now.
I look forward to purchasing more great vids from you in the
future.
Many thanks,
Graham Quantrill.
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Hi
Mike,
I would like you to know that apart from your personal talent, you have
that incredible ability,
to show an intermediate player like me, something that I have searched
for
20 years, how to play solo and melody simultaniously.
And you actually show how it is done in four frets, I have looked at
the video twice, and I want you to know, that I have had teachers for
four years and did not teach me what I have learned watching your
session on my first day.
Congratulation on a great learning technique
Respectfully,
Giuseppe De Carlo
Turramura-Sydney
Australia
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HI
Mike thanks for the lessons.
I would love to learn tab and also yes the link worked great for the
other songs.
I was wondering what other songs you had available to download I would
love to have some Bob Seager, Journey or Eagles to learn.
The songs that are on the site to buy are good songs but not ones that
I was wanting to learn so if you have a complete list of songs I can
learn I would love to have it.
I have no problem buying the lessons for these songs.
Once again let me say thanks so much for your lessons you really are a
great teacher the best I have seen that is why I have no problem paying
for lessons that really work.
I was blown away to see that you actually reply to the e-mails yourself
that is the mark of a great teacher that cares about his students.
The lessons are easy to follow and! you go through them slow enough so
we can learn.
Once again thank you so much.
Darrell Whitledge.
Chicago IL USA.
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Mike Hi ya,
First thanks thanks for doing this ,I have been trying to play a
guitar for more years then I care to remember.
The blues have always held
something for me and I just want to play THE BLUES .I could never ask
anybody to show me ,so I tried to learn myself .
I found out how to tune my
guitar just by watching others then I would listern to bits and parts
of music and I found I could play a bit of 12 bar blues which kept me
going for
years and years knowing that there is a whole lot more to be found but
still cannot ask anybody how.
I dont no why but maybe its just the way Im built. I was all this time
trying to play on a old classical guitar but only getting
so far ,I would drive my partner mad just play the same 12 bar riff
over and over again.
Anyway I wont go on ,I'm just so pleased that I found you and
even after just a short time I have gone forward in my playing thanks
to you.
.Ill stop now Im sure you have lots of things to do then just to
listen to me go on and on about my pain as a guitar
player..
Thanks again and
again Pip.45
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Hey
Mike,
I
wanted to drop you a few lines to let you know I really like your
teaching style.
I had tried to learn the guitar a few years back, I
bought a Black Beauty replica, got some books and DVD's and tried to
learn that way. I had to force myself to practice 20-30 minutes a day.
It didn't last long, disgusted with my progress, I sold my guitar and
quit trying to learn.
I am now borrowing an acoustic from my cousin. I
learned more in 5 minutes with your videos than I had in the past all
together. I am still on the second lesson struggling with the
strumming. I have fat stubby fingers and very short finger nails, so
the strumming is kicking my butt. I think it will become easier to
strum once my fingernails grow out some. I am a perfectionist though
and I will not move on to lesson 3 until I have lesson 2 down pat.
Your
way of teaching has inspired me though, never have I practiced this
much, when I was a child I played the Alto Saxophone and I practiced a
lot, but not like this. I am currently practicing between 3 and 6 hours
a day, except for yesterday, I had a very busy day and did not practice
at all. That is o.k though, my fingers needed the break.
You mention
fingers hurting....LOL...I have renamed my fingers. My ring finger is
Ham, My middle finger is burger and my first finger is
Meat,
and they live very unhappily on my fret board as Hamburger Meat. I can
happily say though that after only 4 days of practicing, I am already
starting to get callouses on my finger tips, so it won't be long and
the pain will ease up!
I
have tried a lot of videos on youtube and dvd's and Tabs and books and
nothing was working for me, until I came across your video on youtube
for Classical Gas(which is one of my favorite acoustic pieces) and
followed the link to your site.
That
was over a year ago, but I had no guitar and did not want to purchase
one just to give up again. I now know that part of my 2011 tax return
will be spent to buy me a new acoustic guitar. (probably a Washburn
Electric Acoustic)
I
would eventually like to switch over to an Electric guitar and learn
classic rock, but I have much to learn first. Again, I would like to
thank you for what you do, and once I get past a few more lessons I
will be buying the 21 video pack and a few loose ones. I can happily
say I have no problem helping to support what you do!!!
Thanks
Again,
Kevin
Cobb
Utah, USA
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Hi
Mike,
These are the best guitar instructions I have ever seen.
They are great for me because I know most chords but the right hand is
what I can't figure out. Also the time count and voice placement with
the chords were exactly what I needed. I wish this internet guitar
lessons had been available 30 years ago when I first took up the guitar.
So many years wasted getting it wrong!
Request now for a couple of favorites by the Beatles.
There's a Place + And Your Bird Can Sing and how about All of
Dylan's Blood on the Tracks. PLEASE
Again the Beatles Videos were the best I have ever seen!
Alan Culver
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Hi
Mike,
I downloaded your videos the other day and I love it.
although I got to
grips with the guitar part reasonably quickly I really struggled
playing and singing at the same time.
I kept throwing myself out of time and tune all over the place. it
really helped that you sang on your video and now I'm getting there
slowly but surely.
I played the first verse and sang along today correctly for the first
time. I have never been so chuffed.
I plan to play it and sing for my missus, she doesnt know I've been
practicing so hopefuly it will be a nice suprise.
I'm really glad that there are new additions to your video library. I
also like the info you give about them i.e difficulty level, electric
or acoustic etc.
I havent been learning guitar the conventional way. i.e I
havent spent any time learning and practicing chords.
Whenever I've tried to learn guitar before that way I've got bored and
packed it in. I know that i'm definitely cutting off my nose to spite
my face by not learning the basics but my point is that your videos are
like a breath of fresh air in the stuffy old world of some guitar
teachers.
I can actually play what looks to the untrained eye as quite a
complicated piece.
Anyway, in a long waffly way I've been trying to say thankyou very much.
Keep the videos coming and I'll certainly be buying more in the future.
Kindest regards and thanks a million.
Ali McCurrach
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