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Wishing you love, peace and happiness (and many years of guitar fun!)

Justin

Small Town Eyes - Justin's debut album - 28th February 2010 My first solo album is a vocal alternative pop folk album, a collection of 13 songs, there are 2 solo acoustic guitar instrumentals, but it's all song based, catchy but a little strange. Easy to listen to but engaging. You can hear sample tracks on myspace. And there are review links at www.justinsandercoe.com. NOW AVAILBLE FOR PRE-ORDER AT ITUNES Now is your big chance to help me realise my dream of charting :) Buying (or pre-ordering) at iTunes will count for the charts in your country in release week! Make me a happy bunny - pre-order on iTune here!

Come from YouTube??? Get the Lesson ID at the start of a video - look it up in the Lesson Index and you'll find the lesson. USTREAM TV - Live Weekly Broadcast Come hang out every Friday! 6pm UK, GMT 1pm US, EST MYSPACE I do read ALL my comments on myspace (I personally have to approve every one) so that is good way to say hi!!! Plus you can hear some of the tunes from my album "Small Town Eyes".

What am I up to???

Latest 10 Lesson Updates

05-02-10 • NEW TAB - for my song From Katie's Window is up on my artist site. Vid lesson soon...
27-01-10 • NEW SONG - 28min video and TAB for my song Page 99 is now on my 'artist' site.
26-01-10 • NEW LESSON - Starting to get deep now in Modes in Series
25-01-10 • NEW LESSON - The order for guitar effects pedals!
19-01-10 • NEW LESSON - The Modal quest continues with SC-104 • Why Use Modes?
16-01-10 • NEW SONG - Layla Unplugged, part 3, ithe main solo. Song complete!
15-01-10 • NEW SONG - Layla Unplugged, part 2, the chords and strumming, look at the main solo.
14-01-10 • NEW SONG - Layla Unplugged, part 1, into and intro solo.
13-01-10 • NEW LESSON- here's a comprehensive look at Altered Tunings
12-01-10 • NEW LESSON - Microphone Guide in Recording Techniques

Can you help with translations? I am trying to get all the videos on the site translated to pdf documents (hopefully you may have seen this!) and we need volunteers to translate (and check) the word docs. We have some people already, but particularly need Swedish, Romanian, Russian and Chinese translators to help check the files we have, and we still need help in other languages too. Please contact us at translate[at]justinguitar.com and my friend Brendan (who organises it for me) will be in touch. Thanks, J.

Justin Live, in the flesh... gigs, clinics and lessons...

I'm planning a lot of travel this year once the album is out - doing concerts, clinics and private lessons, as well as random meet up's with my virtual students. And this is where I will announce them...

Date	Type	Location	Venue	Details
28-02-10	Concert	UK, London	Bush Hall	Tickets. Album launch show. Only £5!

Brian May digs justinguitar.com!

It is a real honour for me when someone I have a huge amount of respect for likes what I do, and little while ago the legendary Queen guitarist, Brian May, mentions my site in his online blog, Brian May's Soapbox. It took me a while to add a link here, because I thought it might make me look a bit full of myself, but hey, I'm proud of this! Click here to go to his web site and see it (it was posted on 29th May 2008) or click the image on the left to see a pic of it!

Latest News - January 2010

Happy New Year everybody!!!

After being out in Jordan for all of Christmas and new year it's been a bit of a shock to come back to London and find snow everywhere. Luckily I have loads to do that doesn't involve leaving the house!

So a little bit about Jordan... amazing place. Really friendly people, great food, mind blowing sights and great diving. We started with a few days in the capital, Amman, which is a pretty big city, horrible to drive around with lots of traffic jams, but a very interesting place. We then drove out to the Dead Sea, which was properly amazing. We treated ourselves to a couple of nights in the Movenpick hotel, which is probably the nicest hotel I have ever stayed in. It wasn't cheap, and beer cost over £12 ($20+) for one pint!!! so we didn't drink much, but floating in the Dead Sea was simply an amazing unforgettable experience.

We then headed down to Aqaba for scuba diving in the Red Sea. I got my PADI Open water and Advanced Open Water qualifications while there and loved it. Big thanks to all the guys at Dive Aqaba, who were great people and we had a real good time. The food on the boat was fab too, traditional home cooked food made for us on the boat every day. We did 2 dives a day, and bought cheap underwater cameras and took some cool photos they are up on my myspace page now) and did a great wreck dive on Christmas day. Can't wait to get to The Great Barrier Reef later this year and dive there too!!

Next up was the ancient city of Petra. FULL of tourists, by the thousand, so day one was a bit crowded and not so fun, but incredible place. But the following day we hired a guide and did a 25k hike from Little Petra over a mountain and into the back of Petra, which was a much better way to see it. Mohammed from Ammarin tribe was a very good guide, but kept asking me to swap my girlfriend for camels!! ;)

Lastly we went to the Wadi Rum desert for some hiking, camel riding and 4x4 madness ;) Stayed in Bait Ali Camp, which was brilliant (highly recommended) and all our new friends from Dive Aqaba came up for a new years party, so we had a great time. Then it was a early start and a long drive back to Amman and then home. If you are looking for an interesting place to visit, I would recommend Jordan. Culturally very different but not like going somewhere as extreme as Saudi Arabia so you get a real feel for that world, but without getting locked up for wearing shorts ;)

Today I hope to get back to the studio, I had a little play yesterday and it feels strange having had 20 days off without touching a guitar... My fingers feel tired but it felt like going home once I had a little jam with myself!

I have a big to do list for this year and I am also planning to develop a lot of new areas and functionality in the web site - and I would like your help deciding which things to get busy with first, so I have a thread on the forum where I would love your ideas, things that will make your experience here better, so have a read through and let me know your thoughts and help me make this place better!

After a meeting with Jedi we are going to keep many of the Christmas offers going and reduce the prices of some more products too. Your response to the packs was overwhelming and I have had loads of emails asking for us to keep the lower prices - we we are going to try and do just that!!

Small Town Eyes is now set for release on Feb 28th so I am busy now doing lots of PR and I am also going to have a crack at a world record... but more on that later... Pre-sales should be ready soon will get links here and on my artist site as soon as that happens. I just one minute ago got the rough finished film clip for Page 99 so should have that up on YouTube later today I hope!! Looks awesome :)

Well I better get back to the to do list, lo on it today. Wishing you all the best for 2010 and hope that it is filled with love, laughter and guitar fun!

Take care, be safe and be kind my friends. J

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Sounds I make with the help from...

Justin plays Maton Acoustic Guitars, TC Electronic Effects, The Gig Rig Pedal Switcher, Mesa Boogie Amplification, AER Acoustic Amplification, DR Strings, The G-Lab Wah Pad and Kyser Capos. Thanks. Check them out, all seriously great tools for making happy sounds in your ears!

Global Issues

I'm just a guitar player, but I also care deeply about the state of the planet and maybe I can introduce you to some things you are not aware of, or just things that I care about. So take time to read the articles if you are interested, otherwise just turn the page and ignore...

Malaria - The quiet killer
I wonder how many of you ever thought that in the time it takes to watch one of my 10 minute videos that 20 children in Africa will die from malaria. Shocking isn't it. There are over 1 million deaths around the world from this killer, and it is preventable and curable. 90% of all malaria deaths are in Africa, and 70% of those are children under 5 years of age. The best way to prevent malaria is for children to sleep under treated mosquito nets. When I volunteered at the orphanage in Ghana early last year, none of the kids had nets. They all do now, but there are many hundreds of thousands of kids with no nets and no protection from the little buggers while they are asleep. If they do catch it, they can't afford treatment, a simple case of taking a tablet for a few weeks. There are many organisations that are working on distributing nets and I would urge you to support them, financially and by talking about this problem. Please check out the following sites: Malaria No More UK, Malaria No More US, click on donate, and help save a child's life. Thanks for taking the time read this, and I hope it moves you to act.

Zeitgeist - The Movie
I am sure that this is not the whole truth, but it is certainly interesting, and if you have not seen it then you should certainly check it out. If 10% of the film is true then we live in a very scary world indeed. A very thought provoking movie. It talks about religion, 911 and the way that we a ripped off by governments: Take money from the poor (collecting tax) and spend it on war (give the money to corporations that make weapons). Be prepared to re-think some things... Watch it here!

Darfur
Nearly two years ago now I found myself nearly in tears reading an article about the situation in Darfur in the New Internationalist magazine. I mentioned it in my 100th YouTube video and I hoped that it would make the video out of date very quickly. But it hasn't. More than 300,000 people dead and 2.5 Million people displaced. It is just disgusting that nothing is being done by international governments. Guess there is no profit to be made there... no oil to plunder. Read more about it - The Darfur Genocide and write to your local senator / MP.

Taxi To The Dark Side
While training in Spain my mate Dave played me an amazing film called "Taxi To The Dark Side". It is the story of a taxi driver who was wrongly taken into custody in Iraq and tortured and killed in prison. It shows many interviews with politicians and some creepy dudes that did the torture that killed the taxi driver. The US can choose definitions of words for ANY international agreement that it signs. In this case they define "torture" in a most unusual way. Guantanamo Bay is also discussed, as well as the torture techniques they use. It is a really shocking film that I would urge everyone over 18 to watch. See the trailer HERE and wiki info HERE. Let's hope that Obama puts this right...

Ghana
I spent Christmas and New Year 2008 in Ghana working in an orphanage. I met some amazing people and it really changed my headspace. It is a year on now and I still think of them often, and help them financially from money I make on this site. I maintain a web site for them - if you are interested in volunteering somewhere, then I highly recommend it. Just get in touch with Venus, his details are on the web site. You can read about it and see some video of our adventure in my blog, here. I raised quite a lot of money through this site and it really helped the kids, we got them new cloths, a bed, painted their room, bought medicines, paid for schooling, bought them chicken, but their expenses are ongoing and I send money to them every few months (from the donations received from this site). If you would like to help please see their web site (Ryvanz-Mia Orphanage).

 

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Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told.
Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
H L Mencken

 

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism.
Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
Noam Chomsky

 

You can find the REAL news (not the rubbish that the big media evils show us) by visiting:
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If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein

 

Many people die with their music still in them.
Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live.
Before they know it, time runs out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes