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  1. Chris Johnston

    The Secret Santa Has Chosen!!

    Thanks @ari.mac ! ❤
  2. Chris Johnston

    The Secret Santa Has Chosen!!

    Thanks @iridecently !
  3. Chris Johnston

    The Secret Santa Has Chosen!!

    Thank you! Haha I'm in a state of absolute shock 😂
  4. Chris Johnston

    The Secret Santa Has Chosen!!

    Thanks man! Hope you're doing well! 😊
  5. Chris Johnston

    The Secret Santa Has Chosen!!

    Thanks @Kfir Yaakovi ! Hope you had a great Christmas 🤟
  6. Chris Johnston

    The Secret Santa Has Chosen!!

    Holy shit! Thank you so much! ❤❤❤ will I just DM my pick to you @TheRedMageGuitarist ? Also a massive Merry late Christmas to everyone 🤟! I've been just about swimming in Rum the past few days, so apologies for just seeing this now! ❤
  7. Chris Johnston

    Play A Song 100 Times?

    This is a great idea! It sort of reminds me of a condensed version of the 10,000 hour rule. Doing anything 100 times will make you much more familiar with it, so you should feel really comfortable with the tune. I actually used to do this when practicing arpeggios and it really does help 👌...
  8. Chris Johnston

    Please Tell Me You Hear This Too!

    Haha I hear it! It was very very hair metal even for a Metallica ad lib 😂
  9. Chris Johnston

    Have you forgotten how to play your instrument on stage? I have

    It takes an iron set of balls to post things like this, so thank you Radu! I know if it was me I'd delete a mess up and try to pretend it never happened. But this is a great lesson in not taking things too seriously and realising we are all humans that make mistakes 👌 To answer the question...
  10. Chris Johnston

    Singer here, any others?

    Backing vocalist here 🤟
  11. Chris Johnston

    What’s your favorite Christmas song? 🎻🤶

    That's amazing! Nothing nicer than Christmas tunes on violin, so I'll try and catch that for sure! For requests, I'm going to catch shit for this, but I genuinely love 'All I want for Christmas is You' by Mariah Carey - It's that backing vocal part that goes 'And iiiiiiiiiiIIIIIII' - it gets me...
  12. Chris Johnston

    Spotlight Student: Chris Johnston

    Thank you so so much guys! 😊 It's an absolute pleasure to have this platform and the amazing & generous people on it every day 👌 my week has been made twice over ❤ also, I'm a lifer on this site so I ain't going anywhere! 🤟
  13. Chris Johnston

    Who You Are VS Who They Say You Are

    This is a great topic and question! It's really interesting because depending on who is passing their judgement on aspects of your personality, it's tricky to know if it's done by them primarily in malice or as a genuine reaction to something you're not aware of. This is where I agree with @Ed...
  14. Chris Johnston

    Memory and discomfort

    Hey man! So I think the trick to internalizing theory is to put yourself in a situation where you are actively using it. Music Theory is essentially a language, so if you want to use it fluently it all comes down to speaking it. From experience, learning to improvise is a great situation to...
  15. Chris Johnston

    Scales

    Hey! So scales can have multiple uses in Guitar playing: 1. Melodies 2. Riffs 3. Improvisation Without going into all the theory, Scales are like DNA that make up the chords you hear & the melodies that sound good over them. The chords have a direct relationship to the scale that constructed...
  16. Chris Johnston

    Practice ?

    So your first question can have a million different answers - the reason for this is that what you should practice will depend largely on what your Goals are. They might be short term goals, but they'll give you some direction to put your time to good use. For example, say your goal is to play...
  17. Chris Johnston

    Metronome practice

    What @TheRedMageGuitarist said on this one for sure👌 This is usually how I practice a solo/technique: You want to find the underlying pulse of the music and this will be what your Metronome will be clicking on - you can then slow down to the tempo that is comfortable for you and speed up...
  18. Chris Johnston

    The Synner App is Here!

    Loving the app! Looks great and really convenient 👌
  19. Chris Johnston

    There's a $ecret $anta Looming About! Check This, $ynners!

    I could write an essay about how much this community has helped me - but I'll try and keep it short! (However I keep editing this to add more in 😂) As someone who struggles with gig day anxiety & performance anxiety, the outpouring of advice and support from this whole community helped me reach...
  20. Chris Johnston

    1-1 help

    If only the master part were true haha, But thanks for the mention Jak! 👌 What's said here is also a good point - feel free to annoy everyone until you feel as if you've got a better understanding. It's how we all learn and everyone here loves guitar, so explaining it over and over is actually...
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