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@SteveinCT said: “One administrator told me this is what the members wanted, and they obliged. How come?”I can’t answer how come they obliged…..I can answer why I am here. I came here because I wanted to learn to play guitar. I spent an embarrassingly long time learning what I now identify as “guitar choreography” with frustrating results. Results that did not allow me to play with others. I learned songs and complex sequences of notes by rote memory and this had two distinct disadvantages. 1.If I missed a note mid sequence and fell out of time I had no way to get back into the song without starting at the very beginning. 2. I had not developed the physical hand, finger muscle dexterity and was missing the strong mind muscle connection necessary to play what I was trying to play. This forced me into chasing speed, which turns out to be my biggest source of inaccuracy, uncertainty and sloppy playing. There are many teachers out there who are primarily focused on this method of teaching. Some are great teachers. That method was not where I found success. I wanted to learn more than sequential memorization of one note to the next song playing. I wanted to learn how to play guitar not just a song on the guitar. This is what I found here at TAC. It is the distinguishing feature of this site. Here I am able to build my skills. I found skill building is not an overnight endeavor. Ha, when I got here I thought it was. I was able to increase my theory knowledge on an as needed basis. I started at zero. Okay, I knew about middle C and do rey me, yadda yadda. It was a slow process for me because I think I may just be a slow learner. All that said I now know how to play guitar. I can sit down with someone and play a song with them I have never heard. This was always what I wanted to be able to do. Now I continue building my skills, incorporating the layers of theory I have learned into my intuitive playing. I am still amazed by what I learn in the daily lessons regarding theory stuff I missed the first 12 times through. My experience has been this, the more I know the more I am able to extract new knowledge from what seemed initially to be an easy lesson. So that is why I am here: I want to play guitar and know it inside and out, multi-dimensionally, so I don’t have to struggle to learn how to play a song on guitar. I want to be able to pick up and play anywhere with anyone who wants to play.That is what I have learned how to do at TAC. Lotta words but the question was more than a simple yes or no answer would satisfy. 📝😄