Hi Everyone,

My name is Jim. I'm 65 and retired. I joined guitar tricks just about a month ago and am enjoying working through some lessons. I have played guitar on and off since I was a teenager...never really getting over the hump with improvisation and soloing. I can strum chords, play some easy songs, know some scales and can play a simple melody behind the chords in a song. My goals are to learn my fretboard better, then master the major and minor pentatonic scales and root notes so that I might devlop some soloing skills. I consider myself a student and really enjoy the challenge of both the music theory and practical application of theory on the guitar. My favorite guitar players are BB King and Eric Clapton. My big challenge today is trying to figure out how to rotate my profile picture so that I am not looking sideways :-) I welcome any comments or advice. Thank You! Jim