Thanks for the warm welcome, the local suggestions, chats and drinks to our very own @Lloyd Walls! I’m attending a personal development conference near Austin for the weekend. 🤘🏻

This is actually an old video I recorded during the pandemic. My goal was to learn how to create a montage where I could accompany myself and solo in the same video. It was pretty complicated to figure out, and unfortunately, I don't quite remember how I did it 😅, but at least I have this as a record. It's my take on Stella By Starlight, played in a Samba style -- a traditional Brazilian rhythm. Hope you enjoy it!

Kurt Vonnegut wrote: When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of "getting to know you" questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? Whats your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don't play any sports. I do theater, I'm in choir, I play the violin and piano, l used to take art classes. And he went WOW. That's amazing! And I said, "Oh no, but I'm not any good at ANY of them." And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don't think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you've got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.” And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn't been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could "Win" at them.

Without further ado, re-releasing our classic series of Harmony 101, 102 and 103 courses on the Jazz Guitar Accelerator platform. Just head over here to take full advantage and watch (or re-watch) the trainings: https://www.skool.com/jazz-guitar/classroom/9b23d4bf?md=35237d2f673147139e21fd3f3a5acaab The purpose of this series is to tackle fundamental music theory (triads, chords, scales, progressions) using the fretboard as a visualization tool, and our ears to make sense of everything. I'm sure you'll enjoy! Many thanks to @Sideman Joshua Sicot for the video edits and logistics on that one 😅 -- We couldn't do this without you!