There's no more obvious sign of humility in an individual than when they give credit to the people in their life for the lesson's learned along the journey... Always good stuff from you Justin...

Really underrated guitarist. Humble and with a great heart. Thanks for sharing your journey Justin.

Man I’m blown away by how much effort it takes to make it in the music world. 🤯

You are a good story-teller. Really enjoyed it!

Virtually everything Justin does is either interesting, cool, or useful and practical! He definitely inspired me to start my own channel to document my guitar learning experience. Thanks Justin, you're awesome!

"a fly had diarrhea on a page" LOL very funny!

I very much appreciated this. I have been trying to learn guitar for about 2 years. But I have only REALLY been trying and following yourself and your lessons for the last year. And I’m getting discouraged how after ALL my effort I’m not really improving much. You very much highlighted how my REALLY trying isn’t comparatively trying at all. And my lack of growth isn’t my incompetence but just a matter of more time required.

Bit late to the party, but I'm loving these vids, so interesting. I've been learning the guitar forever, but never seem to get anywhere. Found Justin's website almost by accident a couple of months ago and have been blown away. I have learnt so much and can now play stuff I only have dreamt about before. I've been so impressed I bought a load of books and can now play quite a few songs. I don't donate to Justin's site, but I definitely will next.year, when money is a bit easier. I just hope I can donate enough, but how do you measure enough when someone brings such joy to your life. Oh, and as a fellow mad dog owner, my dog used to love eating horse poo as well!

Even I spent more than an hour a day playing guitar at that age and I was a computer and environmental science student :)

Loving these vids. You’re very humble and don’t have a bad word to say about anyone.

Thoroughly enjoying these videos, Justin. It’s like a walk in the park with a dear friend. Thanks for sharing so much of yourself and for all the great lessons.

Really enjoyed listening to your history. Just hearing you talk about your young days in the 80's brings me back to my own, although I didn't play guitar....just partied with my friends! Now, at age 60 (a bit older than you) and recently retired, I've decided to take up guitar and am really appreciating your beginner course. It's great having the time to practice and your course is helping me quite a bit. Thanks for sharing your course with all of us!

I have enjoyed your walks and talks with Ziggy (Part 1 and 2). You are very inspiring and I hope to hear more of your stories.

I love this type of video, they are great for doing muscle memory exercises to, and they’re inspiring as well, so thanks Justin 💃🎶💃🎶

Really enjoy these videos Justin, they make a nice addition to the lessons & practice. 8 hrs practice every day. Now that is The Hard Yards!

Fascinating stuff! Looking forward to the next segment

Brilliant, thank you. It's nice to hear your story after spending so much time watching your videos (& reading your books). Looking forward to the London years ✌

great listening! is there a part 3?

Just now getting to watching these dog walk videos. Loving them! Super interesting. And relaxing - love the wooded scenery. And Ziggy is so cute! Thanks Justin!

Really enjoyed this, was looking for part 3 😊 I just started on your beginner lessons, also really enjoying those! 🎸 Thank you for making all this great material 😊🙏

Really enjoyed the first two parts of this. Absolutely fascinating journey and Justin has so much easy charisma, he is an enchanting story teller.

Enjoyed the history lesson again Justin. I'm glad you met the dog walkers, it saved me from asking what breed Ziggy is. I have a little dog like her. She loves meeting humans and dogs. She is good at recall though.

Fantastic video series. It's like being there walking with you. Great job Justin, you're awesome.

An enjoyable walk and story.. Thanks Justin.

Really enjoyed hearing this Justin. Love these videos!

G'day Justin. Please take Ziggy for more walks. Am really enjoying your story! Please tell us ALL of the rest - especially your travels from Tassie to the UK and how you started there. This is obviously a very inspirational story, and we want to hear it.

Very interesting, my god you have worked hard to get where you are today. I can’t imagine the amount of people you have inspired to pick up a guitar . Cheers Justin

Watching this is making me feel like a nature walk is just what I need at the moment

Great video J. -- This explains why you are 1 of the top online guitar tutors and a really good guy !

Very informative and inspiring Justin…Hard work and dedication pays off..👍💯🎶🎸 Thnx for sharing….

Luv these dog walk series!Defo prime tv programme material!Its got everything!Great stories,great scenery and interaction with other dog owners!Ziggy is a star!Inserting pictures into the vid is a great idea and hilarious!Its funny when you’re freezing and your nose drips,who hasn’t had that!Cutting to pick up Zigs business is a hoot!Its got a wonderful entertaining personal touch.Highly entertaining!Thank you.Bit of a Trekky too?So am I,beam me up scotty!

Thank you very much for your very private story. It is not only entertaining but also highly motivating to stop collecting gear and sit down and practice. Looking forward to the next episodes. Your lessons are awesome and you are definitely one of the good guys.

Justin is just the kind of guy who would make a great friend. Great guitar player and fantastic instructor classes on his web site - Justin Guitar. Thanks Justin.

Thanks for sharing, Justin! These videos are strangely therapeutic. It somehow feels like what you have experienced and done holds some meaning, and that makes me to tune everything out and just focus on listening to what you say. Maybe you're just a good storyteller!

Really enjoying this series, looking forward to the next parts

Did I hear him right? 8 hrs practice daily!! And I thought 1hr a day was a lot, oh well maybe that’s why I pretty much suck playing guitar! But I have fun doing it. I’m a Rockstar in my mind for 1 hr a day and it’s the most enjoying hour of the day!!🎸🤩

Very interesting and really entertaining. And while this is not your intention your stories reveal a real quality person. You are incredibly gracious and quick to remember and credit those who accompanied you on this journey. You are incredibly talented and equally humble. Thanks.

Enjoyed Part 2 as much, if not more than Part 1, looking forward to the next installment . Cheers Justin.

Really fascinating and great to get to know a bit more of your background and influences Justin. We love your stuff and like to see how Ziggy is coming along too (oh as well as the guitar stuff).

Well. I am humbled. Very good story. You certainly have lived an enriched life with obviously more years to come. I admire your dedication. I’ve always had the ability but never the drive to see my dreams come to fruition. My hats off to you.

Love your work mate, keep it up.

Just found this Justin and thoroughly enjoyed listening. Lovely story recall and inspiring. Thank you

Thank you Justin! Love the storys!!!!

You can take the man from the outback but not the outback from the man, loving these. Great couple of inspirational biography’s Justin. Look fwd to the receding and bald years. If I every hear of any youngsters who want to seriously play, I will definitely encourage them to watch these two. I’m not a believer in ‘gifted’ talent but believe if you look at anyone at the top of their chosen field they’ve got there through a lot of hard work and effort and the chance coming together of inspirational family/friends and teachers/coaches along the way. If they aren’t available seek them out. That’s why this platform is so good, it’s opened those benefits up to so many. When there are people like yourself dedicated to share your wide breathe of knowledge and skill with learners the world can only be a better place for it. Me, I’m a mid 50 something that’s had a beginner acoustic sitting in a cupboard for ten years never having had a note played on it. That has now changed since coming across your vids a couple of months back. Only just finished the first stage and now been stuck on the dreaded f chord, but hopefully that’ll come with effort. I know I’m too old to ever be a great guitarist but if I can get to a level where I could busk one day for a hour I’d die a happy man. Many thanks for your continued teachings and the encouragement you give in every video. I hope the effort you put in rewards you in all aspects. Thanks man! :-)

My instructor graduated from Musician's Institute in Hollywood. He is an amazing teacher! Glad I found your channel...

I really enjoy the walks and stories.

Ok, now I understand why and how you're such a great player. Total immersion into something you love to do.

Think your stories would make a good read!!!!!!!🎸 Thank You. .Enjoyed

Great video. I really am enjoying learning about your journey.

Thanks, very absorbing storytelling. More please.

Lovely. Enjoyed it.

Hello Justin!! Thank you for doing this video! I really enjoyed it, was relaxing to learn about your life and journey, visit in your company around the forest, was so relaxing to enjoy my coffee. I liked this very much! Hope you have an amazing weekend.

I bought my first drum kit at McCann’s music and had my first guitar lesson there! Also Tony is my older brother what a small world.

Wonderfully done Sir!

Brilliant story line, I’m listening whilst play scales quietly & not looking at the guitar as your advice in one of your other video’s, Cheers for all your advice and tips, good luck to you.

Ziggy don’t be scared of gates, they can’t hurt you.......Slam!

thanks Justin for taking me back home, living in Qld now left Hobart in 74 to see the mainland and still not back homem someday

Good to hear man🤗🤗

Story time with Justin and Ziggy. I'm learning to play guitar using Justin's website. Thanks, you seem like such a great guy. Very real and down to earth.

Great stories, Justin!

I love this...!!

Ok, I'm ready for the next installment. hahaha Good stuff.

Love this series of dog walks and talks. Or Wev you’re calling it.

Hey Justin. I really enjoy these videos and getting to learn about you as a person.I am 56 years old and started trying to learn guitar a few years ago. I can play a few riffs and intros but that is about it. I am planning to really buckle down and start practicing a lot following your lessons. I watched a video of yours the other day and you were talking about how people jump around constantly and never stick with any one thing and learn it. You described me exactly, I am always going from one thing to the other and not practicing any one thing enough. as you said a lot of people spend a lot more time jumping around on the web instead of practicing. That is my problem. I have definately learned a lot about gear but not much about playing. Thanks so much for lessons, I am going to really put in a great effort to learn a lot this year. Take care Justin. It is cold here in Tennessee also.

Its weird in a good way being inspired by this journey from a complete stranger so I'll just say thanks......and so I return to fly droppings on the page with renewed enthusiasm.

Love the story.

Part 1 & 2 was very informative and enjoyable. Thank you Justin. :) ~ Where is part 3 ? The part about the beginning of the website ??

Enjoyed this

Really hoping there's more parts to this fascinating tale!

Well that was very interesting Justin,sounds like you’ve had and still have an interesting musical life,I love your teaching,I think you are very good at what you do you don’t make it too complicated which is good,anyway I enjoyed your story it was very interesting,cheers for that.

Hi Justin. It's been really interesting hearing your story. I guess we're a similar age, I was at high school in the 80s here in England. I started learning on a nylon-stringed guitar at age 10 in my last few months of junior school, and then I didn't start again until age 19 when I got a Squire strat and little practice amp, Nirvana was the big new thing at the time but I was also a huge AC/DC fan, I bought a Gibson Les Paul studio a year later. I got my SG standard and a Marshall JCM DSL at age 30 and that's been my main setup since then :) Thanks for your great videos mate, cheers from the UK 👍🏻

Quite a musical journey!

I enjoyed your musical life’s story very interesting

Justin, Your advice is 100% correct, and that was an excellent story. I really enjoyed it. Music is not an easy road by any means. It's not like engineering where you can simply ride your grades into a successful career. Music is so much more, but how you are judged by peers or potential employers is so subjective that education and experience can become meaningless. The guy who never even took a lesson may be the one who comes out on top. Or not... You just never know. That's why we do it, but it's also why we fail....if that makes any sense. What I try to keep in mind is that we all love the same thing. Music is it's own reward.

Well Justin, who ask for more than to be able to stroll along with someone you respect and admire. And with that stroll, get to know them better. I also watched your live video with Marty Schwarz (another internet personality I admire). You have certainly made a huge contribution to my abilities as guitar player. It's relationships like this that prove how great the internet is; and as much as I hate it,. I love it. Here's to your good fourtune and prosperity! Cheers Mate! RichR. Come on up to northern CA on of these days and I'll show where were not to go in

Long haired Justin looks a bit like young David Gilmour!

Wheres part 3 :). Loved these 1st 2 videos.

Hey Justin great video. Do you still remember the 8 hours practice routine? Can you make a video about it or maybe a practice routine of your own. Cheers.

really enjoying these walkie talkies :) thank you so much for sharing your life with us (be worth giving serious thought to "The Book"]

Birds do benefit from the edge condition between meadow and forest so you're probably right about the clearings being created for bird life. The meadow plants bring insects that would otherwise not be in a forest environment. Great stories, thanks Justin.

Hi Justin You seem to have been lucky to always meet good people at the right time in your development. Maybe it's not luck but rather good judgement on your part. Lots of people I know were not so lucky, became disheartened and gave up the dream of being a professional guitarist because of bad experiences, it still bothers them 30 years later when they've had a few drinks! Do you have advise for young people in that situation today (it's too late for my friends, too bitter, twisted and overweight!). These walking videos are great, keep them coming.

The Unabrow years.. 😉 Thanks for all the tips, Justin.

OMG that Picture in the thumpnail Awesome

Enjoyed this. 8 hours a day, man that's dedication

Really interesting, thank you for sharing. What an incredible journey. Any regrets along the way ... ?

Please make a podcast where you talk about crazy music theory stuff. Would love to listen to that during my runs.

Me too. All this. Except the formal training.

Really enjoyed this. Ridiculous making you play that classical piece to get into College!

I thought I recogonised those woods! Used to live in Farnham for about 3 years, went to the university there 10 years ago. I live in Sweden now though, bit of a difference - woods are bigger that's for sure! I must visit again someday. Lovely town. I think they also filmed part of Harry Potter, Gladiator and some James Bond stuff there too. Anyway, back to my Grade 1 Lesson 2 practice routine for the evening! :P Thanks Justin! :D

Awesome

Hey your an awesome guy with real guitar skills

Hey Justin, any chance of part 3 ? Really enjoyed the first two. Cheers

I never knew Justin was from Tasmania, one of those places you never really hear about , then moving to the UK , brave move I admire that a lot , I bet you miss the weather though Justin don’t you .

I just watched Part 1 and 2 of this series. Cool stories! Did you do another part of it? I can't find it...

In the US the term college and university are interchangeable, although universities are considered larger institutions. Sometimes in a university "college" is used to denote the curriculum related to a field of study or degree, such as the College of Letters and Science in UC Berkeley. The college you went to is equivalent to a Junior or City College in the US, where you can earn a degree after two years or earn enough credits for transfer to four year university.

Excellent titling!! The Long Hair Years...Lol. I would happily enjoy being on pommy soil at the mo...you havent missed anything back home Justin, its been bloody hot in Oz...even down the bottom bit where you hail from :) 2+ weeks of severe heatwave... Referred a total beginner guitarist to your site the other day, as always its the best site for any guitarist, beginner or not - many of us 20+ year players has also learnt plenty from your content! Thanks for all you do.

there is a southern music at christies beach now and its my favourite guitar shop probably not the same one you where talking about though!

We need part 3. Please.

Looking forward to the next installment. Anyone else think the runner in the background was going to trip? Anyways great story about your journey. .

You named your dog after me... 😉 College Binriders Forever