Hello guitar peeps! I've been playing for decades and tend to love all kinds of guitar playing and guitar music. I've noticed that there are different types of guitarists and guitar playing and I'm curious to hear what other people have to say on this subject. I also noticed as with life itself that even when I've practised consistently, played well, become more skilled and fluent, someone comes along and blows me out of the water!? I realised that no matter how well I practise I'm unlikely to be anywhere near the greats. But that's ok. But that aside, I'm more of an instinctive guitarist, I took to jamming and improv quite readily when I noticed many other guitarists couldn't. Yet when it came to actually sitting and learning by rote, I found this difficult, preferring to 'do my own thing'. I think both approaches have strengths and weaknesses as a guitarist and musician. I tend to be creative and write many songs and bits of music too, but how good any of these are I really can't say. I veer between thinking they're great to thinking they're crap. Sound familiar?! What I now feel is that regardless of any ability or lack thereof, I just want to enjoy playing the guitar and not seeing it as endless progression or seeing that something is always out of reach. I hope that ramble makes sense?! Party on dudes!!!

Hey Ben or Mike, Do you fellas know some turnarounds for some blues? I’m looking for some new ideas.

Hey guys and gals! What's everyone working on this week? Is there something in the classrooms that has piqued your interest? Does anyone have any questions about something they're working on? Lemme know! As always I'll have something fun for you I've made for some of our other social medias down below. Later this week I'll have a quick lesson, that typically goes out in our newsletters, but I'll post it here as well in case you aren't subscribed to our newsletter (you should totally get on that though!). Finally on Friday I'll have a new Classroom video that goes out as well! Of course I'll let everyone know here when each one of these goes out so keep your eyes peeled! Mike will be here too! Don't worry, he hasn't gone anywhere! Hope everyone has a great week this week, and remember to reach out about, well, anything guitar related! I'm always around haha! -Ben Newsletter: https://intermediateguitar.com/newsletter/

Hope everyone is doing great this week and practicing hard! Anyone working on anything exciting or have any questions about anything? New videos will be dropping in the class room later this week, so keep your eyes peeled! Hope the rest of the week is super chill and no stress! -Ben P.S. Oh, and here's a chord progression for you to try! Playing lead over this one is cool, it starts in A natural minor and once you get to that E7 you can play some E Phrygian dominant/A Harmonic Minor (one of my personal favs and relative scales)!