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Well you've done it: you've reached the end.
This is the last lesson in my beginners course.

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I really hope you've enjoyed this journey
and you've probably learnt a whole lot of stuff

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but you'll probably find that there are quite a few things 
that you haven't quite mastered yet.

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Now I don't know what they are.

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I can kind of guess that most people struggle with this
or struggle with that

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and try and help you out with things along the way

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but when it's got to this point you need

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to now look back on all of the things that we have covered

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and work out what are the things 
that you haven't mastered yet.

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What I have done is on the website BC199

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which is the consolidation page for the beginners course.

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I've got a list of all the things

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that we've covered during this course

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So what you really need to do now

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is to go back and look at everything

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on that list and make sure you know it.

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Make sure all of the chords are in your memory

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They are no good if you only know them on the website

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Or if you have to look them up in a chord book

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You need have them in here

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It's the same with the scales, same with everything

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the songs included, you need to know the songs 
all the way through

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so it's a really important stage

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go through make a list of all the things

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that are written on the consolidation page

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that you can't do.

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And then write your own routine depending

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on how much time you have available that

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covers all those things starting with easier things

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then moving on to the harder things.

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Now that might take another 6 months

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it might take a week or a month

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I have no idea, it depends on how far

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you've got with each of those elements of the course.

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Different people have extremely different abilities

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some people rip through one thing

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and really struggle with something else.

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and another person will really easily do that thing 
the other guy found hard

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One thing I've learnt as a teacher over the years is that people

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really struggle with the weirdest things to me

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and excel at other things.

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It's freaky how different we all are

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but that is maybe one of the beautiful things

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about us humans as well.

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So have a good go through that beginners course

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consolidate the information that you've got there

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and then you are ready to then to try

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and progress onto other areas.

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You might find that if your really enjoyed the

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strumming and the rhythm stuff

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you might want to check out my

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Really Useful Strumming Techniques DVD

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or some of the other strumming lessons that I've

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got on the website, there's quite a few

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different styles and techniques you can check out

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If you enjoyed the lead guitar things we touched on

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you might want to check out the Blues Lead Guitar course

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which is available free online or as a DVD

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Make sure you use that with the backing tracks

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that's the secret to that.

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If you really enjoyed the transcribing idea

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and you've been really getting into this

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J.U.S.T.I.N technique exercises then

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that's the kind of thing that you want to really develop

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now that you've finished the course

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and transcribing as many songs as you can.

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If you want help with that there is a transcribing

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section on the website with song tips.

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That would be a very good area of the website

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for you to check out now that you've

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finished your beginers course.

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If you really want to do the Blues

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another thing you might want to check out,

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sorry for pushing all my products on you

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but i also have some Solo Blues pieces

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there are some for free on the site and

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also some DVDs you can buy and you might find

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that useful as well as a place to move onto doing.

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After this first stage that you've

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done now the Beginners Course you can firmly draw

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a line that you have covered all of the

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beginners material. I've been really careful

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about the construction of this course

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and I really think I've covered most of the bases

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of things that I would expect a beginner guitar

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player to have learnt and you'll now be on the

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Intermediate journey for which there is

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masses of information. You really have to decide

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a little bit more now what things you want to do.

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Whether you want to do Rock or Blues or Metal or lead guitar or solo or whether you

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want to get a bit more into Jazzy themes or whatever

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you have start specialising a little bit when it

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comes to the intermediate stage, because there

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is so, so many things to learn.

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The one thing that I find really weird is

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the more stuff I learn the more I learn that

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I don't know anything at all, and there are

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still millions of things left to learn, you never stop.

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that's, I think one of the most beautiful things about

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playing a guitar is that even when you think

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you've mastered something you look over and there

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is someone else doing some even crazier stuff

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that you've got to learn.

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Which is I reckon a really cool thing.

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So I really hope you've enjoyed

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this Beginners Course and I hope one day

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that I get to meet you and you can give me some

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suggestions. If you get stuck on anything

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by the way don't forget about the forum.

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Every lesson on the website has a link to

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a specific topic on the forum which just

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deals with that one class so if you are

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getting stuck with any particular thing

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whether it's 12 bar rhythm or improvising

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or whatever you can go there and either get

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help from me, one of the hundreds or thousands

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of other people that use the forum and

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you can also drop me any advice like you found

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that really hard or that difficult and maybe

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I can add it into the website element of this

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course to help some other people.

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So do feel free to drop by the forum and offer

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advice and ask questions and all that.

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It's a really nice community of people

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So take care of yourselves and a big thank you to Jedi

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for all his hard work, filming and editing and bringing

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this content to you and

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take care, be safe and be kind!