If you enjoyed the video and got some value from it, please give it a thumbs up 👍 , it really helps me out, thanks.👍

I can only say that Justin is one of the gooduns. He has dedicated years and years of his life to the guitar community and can never be accused of being a bread head. I seriously believe he should be knighted or something as he has surely given to society a lot more than many who have.

Justin is a giant in the online guitar learning community. His dedication to guiding people to succeed on guitar is why his student base keeps growing. It just seems like a lot of work for one instructor to provide so much content. Cheers for Justin!!

Justin's passion, dedication, intelligence, and mentoring skills are the best. His sense of humor is what keeps me coming back.

Your channel is certainly starting to take off. Great job!

Let me explain something: I played guitar for 20 years. I had a blast making a racket somewhere in the house for an hour or 3 a week. I only knew enough to play the songs I played and every time I'd find a teacher to take me further, I went nowhere. I found a couple of guys on youtube that helped a little bit, but when I found Justin 2 years ago, I took off like a rocket. I actually understand the basics of theory as well as managing the fretbroad like I actually know what I'm doing! lol And I did it over the course of a few months with less than a dozen of the actual lessons. I went right for my trouble areas and it went so well I took a chance with the theory stuff. I've been absorbing and exploring not even 100% of what I've learned for the next 18 months and I'm still going! I am literally amazing myself every time I play. And I certainly never imagined playing lead, but I can and DO all the time now and my rhythm playing is now at a professional level because I know more than one way to play chords which allows for more interesting rhythm patterns. I just can't say enough about Justin. If he can teach an older guy who understood no one else, then I believe he can do that for anyone. I love Justin. I leave my subscription up just as a thank you. I can pay for the rest of my life and still feel like I got a discount because now I play more like 10hrs a week and never had more fun. Justin is the man!

Midlife guitar and my man Justin!!!

Justin's courses were a game changer for me. I had very casually tried to learn guitar for around a decade with little direction. Made very little progress. But I then I found and went through Justin's beginners and intermediate courses and they gave me a great structure with defined goals. Made me way better. Made more progress in 1 year than I had in 10 years. Wish I knew about it sooner. I think every beginner should start with his beginners course. Unless you have can spare the time and expense and have access to a very good in person teacher, then maybe do that.

I can speak from experience that the "Game-ifying" aspect of Justin's site really keeps me coming back. I love marking stuff as complete after doing it and then seeing my progress continue. it does a ton to make me feel like I'm learning. It certainly helps that he's a great teacher, too!

i joined Justin's website earlier tonight and was cruising youtube about him, just seen this,, BRILL upload interview and has given me confidence in the man, he seems to be nice and down to earth 😊 i have been trying to self learn over 12 months via youtube sites, learning chords really bored me tbh, so i thought i would just learn tab and shred only lol...I am 54yrs old and had 2 years of private guitar lessons from 12yrs-14yrs...but didn't put the practice in (due to being a young fool!, wish i could go back in time and kick my own ass 😒) so here i am sitting with 4 electric guitars and one electro acoustic..2 practice amps and 1 progressive grid spark amp..., i can play a few songs badly, but gonna go back to a Beginner and start again with Justin...when he moves me on in the first month , then i will be a subscription donator for life and will always try to learn more and more :D My guitar life is in Justin's hands..I have the time to practice a lot now so no worries...lets go JUSTIN!!! 👍😁 The wife rolls her eyes when i say i have ordered another guitar...but i dont go sit in the pub all weekend and spend a lot of money on beers, i just save the money...just have my motorcycles and NOW guitars are my passion 👍 new sub, thanks for this :D

Here we are!

Justin is simply awesome...

nice interview, just nice how Justin opened up giving some insights, well done

Justin is a great teacher he helped me a lot in my way of playing With Marty Schwartz they are the best

That’s so cool!

Omg!! It’s here!!

Just stumbled across this interview and spent an enjoyable hour listening to you both. Have found both of your channels really useful in working out where to start my beginners journey.

Fantastic interview got the beginner course book and song book .. 🎸🎸

Really enjoyed the interview! Exactly the questions I would have asked myself. Thanks!

Thanks for this! I hope you're still playing - would love to see new videos from you.

Thank you for introducing me to Justin’s Course and all your videos. As a midlife beginner, your videos are very helpful.

Great interview.. Really nice to hear Justin talk candidly about how he puts stuff together to improve his course. I’m happy to have stumbled on to his course and starting my Guitar journey, even if I am now 50. Lol. It’s been great so far. Cheers for organising the interview!

I can listen to justin teaching guitar for hours... there are many good ones but he is the Best guitar teacher in my opinion.

This is amazing!! Great interview man! I hope your channel takes off to the moon. Im sure Justin will read through these comments eventually and if he does I hope he sees this: your beginner course is amazinggg im part of that "pandemic guitar player" and so far its been great! Also its so cool to see that the website and app etc will be developing out as my playing progresses along side. Make sure you enjoy your month off and take off as much time as you need so that you dont feel burned out with all this new work ahead! Look forward to the new app and stuff. Thanks Justin!

Congrats on arranging this interview with Justin - good stuff.

So cool he did this interview. Midlife guitar great channel btw.

Fantastic interview. It was also good to see Justin in that setting. He is really able to cut loose and get in a mode where he can reflect in a way he can't easily on his own stuff. So hopefully he found it beneficial as well.

Very interesting video, i am an absolute beginner having picked up an acoustic guitar for the first time 10 weeks ago at the age of 62. I have been following Justin's beginners course and finding it an excellent tool, his idea of doing it himself left-handed to understand the difficulties faced by the beginner has to be commend. Justine teaching techniques and his work ethic is first class, i am looking forward to a time when i can play the songs i love and other people recognize what i am play!!!! Happy days.

What a fantastic insight and coup. Justin was the first person I turned too on KZfaq - he is an incredible teacher - and in this interview - his passion and sheer dedication shines like a beacon. I started my journey just a short while ago and will now look to consolidate what I have learnt before taking the next step with Justin. There really hasn't been a better time to learn and not a better teacher; just wish I'd started years ago!

This is a great interview. I have been following Justin since past 8 months and he is such an inspiring figure. It's so good to see him talk candidly.

Great interview Luke. It was really interesting to hear about Justin’s plans going forward.

What a great interview! Very interesting and you asked great questions. I started with Justin a couple weeks ago (love it!) and then I found you. I'll be subscribing 😊

awesome video. i love the justinguitar program. he is a legend for doing this

Justin, the original and the best.

Really enjoyable interview, thank you.

I enjoyed this interview. Great questions and discussions. I am a huge fan of Justin's course and am excited to see the upcoming improvements. I owe my skills to his courses. It is what motivates me thru this pandemic. I find that I can't worry about things when I'm focused on learning the guitar. I love his commitment to teaching others and how he works tirelessly to improve the content he provides. Great job.

This was an absolutely fantastic interview! I started playing guitar just around two months ago and I owe all my progress so far to Justin. I think you did an amazing job interviewing him as well! Hope to see more content like this in the future!

Nice interview! Learnt a lot and provided a good insight into how Justin's work is moving forward. There is a lot to look forward to as I'm still making my way through the beginner grades. I started Justin's course based on your one-month guitar progress video with JustinGuitar so thank you for providing the inspiration.

Just started the beginner course (new) and it’s much improved. I did have short go at learning on the old course about three years ago and gave up. Course all feels much better this time around. Well done.

I really enjoyed this interview!!! I'm definitely subscribing and looking forward for your content!!!

I am really glad you've got this interview it's essential for the growth of both channels. I must say i keep going because of you guys! Yesterday i received my 4th justin songbook! ... and thanks to you i perceived with playing with the pick!! Thanks!!!

Great interview with Justin.

Thanks for this interview. Just found it this morning (here in Australia). Have rediscovered Justin again. His new material is really good. I’m 70. Bought myself a 335 copy post Christmas sale to learn to play blues and jazz. Haven’t got into the Jazz yet. Still enjoying learning the Blues. This week decided to learn slide guitar, but need to consolidate and learn more songs. Brain not as plastic as it used to be, but using guitar practice to keep the brain. Will check out your channel. Thank you 👍

I love Justin

You have the right keys to an excellent KZfaq channel. Wow. Never seen such quality videos on "a small channel". Excited to be here before the hundreds of thousands of fans 😊🤘🏼

Excellent interview. Lots to identify with as 'advanced' beginner, wanting to progress but not sure that I have confidence that the basics are really sound. And just getting really good at playing a few songs that I enjoy. Becoming a rock god will come in time! Justin's approach, which is first and foremost as a great teacher, not trying to flog stuff or self promote, is spot on: really sympathetic to the needs of his students.

Justin is very relatable. A great experiment to relearn guitar using his opposite hand. He shows how difficult it is to learn guitar even for an expert guitarist like himself. Most teachers forget what it's like to be a beginner. His left hand videos are perfect for right handed learners because it's like looking in a mirror for them.

Hey! I'm 27 and I'm new to the guitar world. Ijust bought mine like 2 weeks ago but have been only training on pushing the strings down using chord shapes and strumming randomly along to build caluses. My fingers still hurt but it doesn't matter. I got introduced to Justin's beginner course through your channel some days ago. And I also got inspired by your progress videos. You are really amazing! You got me ready to make a schedule and stick to it. You should know that this was after I almost gave up since it's been like 2 weeks of total randomness which made me think that the guitar thing's not for me. Thank you so much! And many Thanks to Justin for the huge effort he puts in.

I love Justin. I took his course years ago and got to the intermediate level. But I now want to go back and redo the beginner's course with the updates which sound great. I love Justin because he really understands beginners and never gets overly technical with them with music theory and the things most other music teachers on YT seem to do often. I wish you had asked him more questions about techniques/methods/approach for older beginners at 42:00 that you both started to talk about but got sidetracked by talking about family instead. But maybe you can ask him about it further if you ever interview him again. Thanks for the interview!

Congrats Luke! That video is a huge milestone for your channel I am sure. His point about always knowing where you are and where you want to go is a great takeaway to ensure we enjoy the journey and keep progressing. It sounds simple but it's so essential.

Pupil and Sensei.....good job to both of you ...keep up the great channels guys ;0)

I first watched Justin in 2007 at the dawn of KZfaq, during my first attempt at learning guitar, unsuccessful due to my lack of effort)) I was so pleased to see familiar face when I got back to learning couple years ago, I am currently at my third year of successful learning, and Justin videos and website is a big part of my success. Thank you!

Absolute gem of a video and interview. I've been doing Justins course for 2 weeks and really enjoying it. It's crazy the effort he puts into something that is then provided for free. I'll certainly be donating.

Duuuude, this video has gotten a ton of attention. Looks like you're subs are taking off too. Awesome!

For a one stop shop I think Justin's course is the best for beginners.

Great interview - I'm at stage 1 in Justin's course as I'm doing it with my daughter so learning with her. It should be fun. Loving your channel and videos.

Thanks for turning me on to Justin Guitar! I'm 60 and just starting (my first, and probably only guitar came a couple of weeks ago. I am also learning the piano and music production at the same time, so I'm treating it like a 4 year college, with guitar as one of the courses. Anyway, I picked up a udemy course for $12 and have access to Skillshare for a year, which is a step up on KZfaq for structure, but as a complete beginner to guitar (not to piano, though), I felt like the context was lacking. Justin, with his app and website really seems to understand a beginner's mindset, which makes him explain details that the courses I've seen kind of gloss over. Like his explanation of what part of the fret to play goes into beginner's finger pain and how playing near the next fret lowers the pressure you have to use to get a proper tone. The other teachers just said to play near the next fret without explaining why and moved on. Anyway, I had just purchased a year subscription to his lessons. Now, this is the funny part: I realized I needed to go to his website to find prelesson stuff, which happened to be able to be played on KZfaq, so I did. After listening to the video, I noticed this hour-long chat video with you (who I had just started following along, as well), so I clicked on it. It was hilarious to hear Justin's discussion on focus and KZfaq, having just done what he was discussing. Nevertheless, I think it was very insightful and cool to see how he views guitar learning from a macro perspective, especially since I was just a few minutes in to my guitar lesson journey with him. Thanks a lot!

We're so alike... So, I started at 33, not 39, a year and a half ago! I did all the Justin Guitar beginner course in something like 6 months, and will be oh-so-ever grateful for it - Justin is a gift from heaven, the most patient and overall best teacher I could have. I practiced, like you, for something like an hour a day - being a dad with 3 kids (and a fourth coming soon!) I don't have those 9 hours every day to invest in guitar learning like some guys show on youtube. Oh, and I got a Seagull S6 too as my first acoustic! It was so fun seeing you with it. I got a PRS Standard 24 as my electric then, though, unlike you. After the beginner course (and, as you did, I pushed it a little as well in the end) I took like 1 - 2 months consolidating, and headed straight to the intermediate method. Finished the courses - again pushing it a little at the end, close to my guitar birthday. Then I got to the folk fingerstyle module, which I really wanted to learn, and then the Blues Lead 1, and now the Blues Rythm 1... But I kinda stopped in the middle of this, made a new practice schedule and am now focusing on consolidation for a few months. I have a lot of stuff to consolidate, while also working on my technique and learning songs... I wish you the best of luck!

I have been using Justin since February and just finished Lesson 7 consolidation. I spent 2 months on that and just posted a couple of videos on youtube to get feedback from the JustinGuitar forum members. I really like Justin's teaching style. I also found it interesting regarding older folks learning...and yes, takes MUCH longer...that's why I put at least an hour a day in but often 2 or three hours a day. And that KZfaq rabbit hole...I fall into that trap as well, but I do so with a guitar in my hands and practice stuff while surfing youtube! Thanks for the video!

Great interview!

Being a left hander myself I’d pretty much given up on learning to play any other way than the way everyone else does it, because there isn’t that much content out there specifically geared toward a lefty, but I’m definitely going to look into Justin’s course.

This is so amazing! I don’t know if Justin will read your comments, but I got an acoustic guitar for Christmas, knew nothing but really wanted to play Don’t Look back in Anger. Justin has been my main teacher. I now can play about 40 songs in total and am doing barre chords up and down the fret (still struggle a bit on my A shaped ones!), string bends, and hammer ons. Loads I want to get better at but this guy has made me go from “I’ll never be able to do this” to “I can learn anything on this with enough practice.” I will evangelize for Justin to the moon and back. Justin’s also given me new ways to woo my wife so thanks man

I have to take issue with your final comment about your interviewing skills. You let him talk and the interview flowed perfectly - you are the next Lee Anderton! Look forward to any you do in the future.

Great Interview , well done on that -) big fan of Justins well done Justin for your courses , you are very very good at it , been learning guitar for just over 2 months now at the age of 60 , i am a bit different to most people i think ! I have been a Pro musician all my life (piano) now i find learning the guitar very interesting fun and humbling jumping from Giant Steps (Coltrane ) on the piano to "house of the rising sun " on the guitar and sounding shit , anyway enjoying your channel too and well done for your progress.

I just came across your channel. I'm also learning in my late 40's with young children in the house so I will be following your channel in interest. I can relate to one of your questions the most, the Guitar is very interesting but what type of guitarist do I want to be. There are many paths to choose, which one do you go down!

Hey man! It's awesome you've got to interview the legend! I'd like to recommend a couple of things -Prepare some questions and categorise them into topics in advance, not necessarily that you will have to ask everything or follow an order but they will serve as a compendium of topics you may want your interviewee to talk about. -When you want to comment on something the interviewee has just said ask a relevant question, from your list or something derived from what they have just said. I think we all enjoyed it very much and appreciate your effort. And sure we'd love to see other people in the channel. Subscribed here. Cheers!

Very enjoyable interview. I have followed Justin's original course through to almost the end of the beginner course. Interesting discussion about barre chords, I don't have any problem with making barre chord shapes and holding the chord, the problem I have is changing to and from them. Not managing these changes properly has really slowed my progress. Practice, practice, is the thing I suppose.

Great interview Mate. You channel is getting better every week. Also, get a Spark Amp it will change your life. I love mine

Great interview Justin, and you weren't to bad yourself Luke :p Hey, you didn't fanboi at all, good job! Oooh, man I can't wait for the black belt grade! I get the whole consolidating thing now. For instance, grade 5. That is seriously more info just in that grade than I can remember from the entire classic beginner's course. You see Music Theory Grade 5, but that is 4 modules in that grade alone, which is equivalent to 4 lessons anywhere else. The practice assistant has helped make this grade a bit more manageable and not so overwhelming now. My guess is I will be doing Blue Grade & consolidating some remnants from the Green grade for the rest of the year. Oh yeah, shoot it is September, so I'm saying it will be a year from now that I have this all consolidated & hopefully my barre chords are smokin' by then! Triads, Major 7, Dominant 7, Minor 7, Minor 7b5, C9, C13, et al have been a really good break up of the minontany of barre chords, which I'm finding really helpful when working on chord changes. I'm also doing the one thing you & I both were like meh with, and that is ear training/transcribing. That is freaking HARD! His ear training in Blue Foundation 5 is nuts as he plays real types of progressions.

Great interview, really enjoyed it! The hour flew by. As a complete beginner & only just about know which way round to hold a guitar would it be best to just follow the internet course (with a donation) or just download the app and follow that? I brought my first ever guitar which arrived today 😃.

689 likes, 0 dislikes. love it. What happened to you Midlife! it's been 4 months!

hi bro I cannot postion get first finger to barr and still hold the e moveable shape, there must be something I am doing wrong why I cannot barr my finger hand wrist or somthing or could it be just hand finger dexterity ?

One way to at least try to avoid the clickbait, set the video to wide so the queued video's don't show and then go into full screen so you cannot see them. Shoegazing was a 90's thing, bands like Stone roses. Good interview.

"Justin cursing even once is not true" This video:

What happened with the new app?

Online lessons are boring and it's hard to pace your practice. Justin's sight is great but you have to be an organized person to benefit from it. If you don't have a strong practice routine the info will go in one ear and out the other. The first video of his lessons should be teaching students how to structure the practice routine.

Not gonna lie...I got to lesson 5 of Justin Guitar Grade 1 then got distracted on KZfaq...by Justin Guitar on how to play wonderwall, coldplay and Ed sheeran. So I blame Justin for distracting me from Justin's course 😅

I am a lefty as well are left handed players better them right hand guitar 🎸 😉 lol

Thanks bloody Englishmen.

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May I suggest using a more click-baity title? "He relearned guitar left handed to become a better teacher".