Welcome to the site and congrats on the new guitar.

I'm an instructor here and figured I'd offer my 2 cents on the site

I joined the site way back in about 2000. My first experience was just like anyone else I guess.... I was expecting a bunch of beginner lessons that kinda petered out after several lessons like many of the other sites on the internet.

My first experience here was using a freebie AOL account and as a lark I took one of my riffs and uploaded it... thinking nothing more of it and then just kinda forgetting about the site. Back then there were no videos so I just posted an audio file.

Shortly thereafter, my freebie account ran out at AOL and I went almost a year before I signed back on again.

Just outa curiosity I went back and checked my submission and found a ton of positive opinions and questions on how to play the riff.. including one from the owner of the site Jon Broderick.

I uploaded a better quality version of the same lesson and next thing I knew I got a message from several instructors asking why I wasn't submitting lessons to become a Guitar Tricks instructor.

So, I redid the lesson and submitted it.

Next thing I know I'm getting praise from all the instructors and pretty much a pre-authorized invitation to join the site as an instructor.

I redid the MultiBar Tap along with several others and got a pleasant surprise when I was praised by each instructor and offered a position here.

Needless to say... I was surprised as heck and put together a bunch more lessons on tapping and advanced lead techniques.

So... the first thing I did after joining the site was start work on my "All About Tapping' tutorial".

Needless to say... after being involved in the music industry for over a decade playing in Major Label bands, cover bands and numerous years as a personal teacher... this was a welcome new experience.

Within a few months I was receiving thousands of hits and praise from other players and back then when I got 1600 hits I thought that was amazing.
(1600 people looked at my lessons?? Like, holy crap!)

Now, we're 8 years later... I've got about 500 lessons posted and my page hits are up over a million.

I've got several albums released and awards from numerous internet radio stations as well as placement with TV/Film publishers....


What can I say..... I work my butt off for this site providing what I hope are the best video lessons on the net. Not just posting the usual beginners stuff, but delving into riffs and techniques that it's taken me 30 years to learn.

In the next few months I'm upgrading all my lessons with re-writes and Hi-Def videos and the one thing I notice about the site is the strive for qualtiy in the lessons. As well as going beyond what normal sites offer and covering Studio Techniques,

Hopefully, the site will be around for a long time to come.