I’m sure that my story is not unique. I'm also sure that this is WAY TOO LONG. But I feel I need to quantify the type of person that this testimonial comes from. A bit about myself. Tried to play guitar when I was a kid, but my hands were just way too small for the wide fret board of the classical guitar that my father bought home. I wasn’t able to make the kind of music I wanted. The F chord was damn near impossible. But I went back to that guitar every 10 years or so, with little success. Finally bought a guitar I could play a few years ago and started to devour everything I could find about playing the guitar. The internet was the mother lode to an eager beginner. I remembered all the open chords, and bar chords came fairly easily. I purchased lots of books, and magazines, downloaded enough tab to make the NMPA members foam at the mouth, and learned to play some songs and tons of licks. Knew I was on the right track when my wife was able to recognize everything I played. Learned the minor pentatonic because I read that is where solo’s come from. I wanted to learn basic theory and applied everything to the keyboard where the white and black keys made sense to me. Hammer on’s, pull off’s, bends, vibrato, alternate picking, 12 bar blues, circle of fifth’s, etc etc etc.
After you get beyond being a beginner at guitar (past basic training) I found little direction as to what came next. The pieces were there, but there was no plan on how you made it all work. There’s tons of stuff that promises to make you a great player in an hour, day, weekend. All fluff and hype. You know the stuff I’m talking about. Then I found Kirk’s website, GFB&B, not for the first time. I registered, looked at the lessons, read about
PT ( a comic book?!?!?). I liked that right off Kirk and others said that it was NOT for beginners. Certainly not the usual get rich quick scheme. Then I did my due diligence. Check the testimonials, check the reviews. I could not find one person that had anything negative to say, anywhere.
Finally, I ordered the book and CD. The first time through it I knew that this was the “plans” that had been missing from all the pieces. PT is the Keys to the Kingdom. Kirk, through
PLANE TALK, takes what we all know and makes sense out of it, plain and simple.
Not the fastest learner I’m taking my time with it. But I found almost immediately after reading through the first time and working with the
slide rule that I was able to move, jump and slide around the fret board without having to wonder where I was, or where I was to go next. Every note fit, nothing off key, nothing sour. I was able to easily put single note melodies in my head on to the guitar. From the theme from The Godfather to White Christmas to Take the A Train. PT truly opened everything up.
I’m obviously very new with PT but I can see where everything from now on will be related to PT.
After taking a few quick peeks at the PT private forum I was excited to see that the material and knowledge does not stop at the book.
This is all truly revolutionary.
If you are like I was. Wondering what comes next. This is it.
Plane Talk is what comes next.
Michael
PS.. the illustrations in the book are not as bad as Kirk makes them out to be.