My parents were hippies in the 60s, living in L.A., going to Led Zeppelin concerts and rushing the stage. They were way into music. My mom was 17 years old when she had me... like Penny Lane kinda story or something... but the scene was too much, and they decided if they wanted to raise a kid they needed to get out of L.A., so they moved to Grand Junction, Colorado. I remember, from the time I was four years old, laying on the living room floor studying all the album covers from the collection my dad had amassed. What really caught my attention was whenever he picked up his acoustic guitar and began to play and sing... Moody Blues, John Denver. He could belt out House of the Rising Sun. It was the one thing I knew I wanted to do, just like my dad. My girlfriend bought me my first guitar on my 18th birthday. She is now my wife, and we've been married for 33 years. While I've played this guitar over the decades, I never really took the time to learn songs all the way through. Mostly I invented stuff and always just loved the sound of what I could create. I wrote a few songs along the way and recorded in a studio with a great singer on two songs (mostly just playing my accoustic). I had a bucket list item that one day I would play an open mic night. Last summer, I actually made this happen: three songs in front of about 30 people. I was nervous as hell. The adrenaline was insane. After all this time, I didn't know I could actually sing as a lead... it's like I seriously didn't find my voice until I was 55. Fast forward a few months. I'm now part of a new band. I'm a lead singer on about a third of the songs and play acoustic. It's a cover rock and roll band, 70s, 80s, and 90s. We had our first gig, which was a two-hour set, a few months ago. It was intense. We have three more gigs coming up. If I'm honest, all I really want to do is sing and play guitar, but my wife has reminded me it's too late to be a rock star, and it was probably best for our relationship that I wasn't at an earlier time. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. 😀

@Melvin Williams We've been rotating the following songs in our sets, which range from 1-2 hours, depending on where we play so far (small bars for the most part) - Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac - Have You Ever Seen the Rain by Creedence Clearwater Revival - Heartache Tonight and Take It Easy by the Eagles - Train in Vain by the Clash - You May Be Right by Billy Joel - Last Dance with Mary Jane by Tom Petty - Hey Hey, but Led Zeppelin - Don't Change by INXS - All for You by Sister Hazel - Honky Tonk Woman and Sympathy for the Devil - Rockin' Me, Steve Miller Band - Pink Houses, John Cougar Mellencamp - Rocky Mountain Way by Joe Walsh - Hard to Handle (Black Crowes version) - Summer of '69 by Bryan Adams - Behind the Wall of Sleep by The Smithereens - The Breakup Song by the Greg Kihn Band - Low by Cracker - One Headlight by The Wallflowers - Can't You See by The Marshall Tucker Band - Hollywood Nights by Bob Seger - Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting by Elton John - Radar Love (just learning that one) - Your Love by the Outfield - Keep Your Hands to Yourself By the Georgia Satellites. - Smokin' in the boys room. Motley Crue version - Long Cool Woman by the Hollies - All Along the Watchtower (U2 version) Other songs I play on my own and at Open Mic nights include: - Night Moves by Bob Seger - One by U2 - Arms of a Woman and What's Been Going On by Amos Lee - Black by Pearl Jam - Nutshell by Alice in Chains - Plush by Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Dancer by Elton John - Rodeo Clowns by Jack Johnson - Out Loud by Dispatch - Listen to the Music by the Doobie Brothers - Working Class Hero by John Lennon Of all those songs, I'd like to get better at playing "Tiny Dancer". Still haven't quite nailed that one, and of course I don't really have the range to hit it like Elton John, but it has been fun trying to play it on guitar. I've been working on my stage presence more. I watched a video of our first gig recently, and I was stiff as a board, shoulders locked up, staring at the neck of my guitar, just like a frozen statue.

The problem with the paid offers in the classroom is there is not enough information about what you actually get for the price (a Skool limitation). Your priciest offer gives the best clue because I at least know it's 6 weeks. I don't know if the other items are one session or something else. I think you need a pinned post that helps better catalogue what you have in your classroom (replace the Birthday one maybe). The Start Here course in your classroom needs to be focused on the same thing, and not mixed with a beginner guitar offering (keep that separate). Maybe think of some ways you might offer a visual roadmap of someone's guitar learning journey to help orient them on where they are today and where they should go next. You could have multiple roadmaps, depending on how you choose to group and categorize things, but I'd say don't pick more than three. I'm sharing a screenshot as an example. This roadmap represents 3 months of training with various touchpoints, and I use it in presentations to reinforce that I actually have a system and a plan that folks can plug into. All this to say, I think your challenge is less about all you do/should offer next - and more about how you organize what you already have in a way that makes it easier for people to buy and self-identify (but I think you might already know that 😀).

@Ricardo Ponce Thanks brother! It just got to a point where I had to end it before I melted on that uncomfortable stool that was also killing me softly.

@Rylan Lacroix Thank you! The three songs I've got lined up for my next one: 1. Rodeo Clowns (Jack Johnson) 2. Meet Me in the Woods (Lord Huron) 3. Skyway (The Replacements) A potential alternative I might go with is "Don't Panic" (a Coldplay classic also on the Garden State soundtrack)

I did my first open mic night last week! Been thinking I need to hop on a call like this (got another one I have to jump on instead unfortunately)

Interesting!