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“Hello, my name is Dan Bashkoff. I was a professional guitar player for about 30 years. Burnt out, put the guitar away for another 30 years, never played a note. And about nine or 10 months ago I decided I really missed it and I wanted to get back into it and work on. The goal I'd always had was to become a jazz guitar player. I bumped into Chase's videos on YouTube and along with many others. But what I liked most about Chases was that when I worked on them, I sounded like I was playing jazz. Not sounded like I was playing a mess of scales and arpeggios that seemed to go nowhere. I wanted to play music again and I thought Chase's method was a good one to get me there. So I signed up for a year. I've been doing it for about three months and I really like the sound that's coming out of my guitar. What I wanted to do and needed to do was to build a lot of facility again because I had lost a lot over 30 years. Chops. Ch. Chops were gone. And there were definitely systematic lessons to help me do that and to start to get my chops back again. But what was most important was that they worked in a way that was musical and got me to play jazz and to sound like I was playing jazz and made me feel good about my playing so that I wanted to keep going with it and get better. The website is very systematic. It's. There's a little test you can take to give you an idea about where you should get started or you can pick and choose and which is what I did. And I feel like I'm getting my facility back again and I'm definitely increase my ability to play over changes, which was my goal. I can. I'm not going to go out and play a gig right now, but I can definitely come up with ideas that on changes that hold together and. And most importantly that make me feel good and that I like listening to. So I think you should give it a try.”