For those who like rock… never heard of this band, have you?!

"That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' Its infinite." – Jeff Beck You'll never make progress if you don't pick the thing up every day to play something. Sometimes we get stuck in the "I need to practice, but......" rut - fill in the blank with,... I don't have time, I'm too busy, too much going on, I can't fix xyz... whatever the excuse is... You may say, "you don't know my situation." And although that may be true, I'm human just like you and I've either experienced it myself many times (trust me I have), or I've seen my students struggle with it. We all do! You're not alone... none of us have it all together, but what I do have is way out from the excuses... If you're even the slightest bit curious, comment "no more excuses" I'll send you more information about what I'm cooking up behind the scenes... 👇 P.S. This song sums how I'm feeling about this group... Start to get excited... it's ok... More to come!

So for the last three months, I’ve been candidating for a position as Worship Director, at a church about an hour and a half from us. This past Sunday after a long interview with the leadership board, I was offered the position and I took it! So know I’m getting to know everyone that’s been involved in worship in the past, and I have to put together a schedule, and prepare at least a month worth of services for June. Plus I have a team almost ready to go for an event on June 6 called Jesus in the Park, in the general vicinity of the church where I was hired. And so far I’ve also got a July 4th I need to prepare for (secular/ private party). Normally I have more summer gigs set up by now, but this new church gig is going to take a lot of my time and energy moving forward. I’m still here, I’ve been praying about what to do with this group, and I really want to focus on it and grow it, I’m just so very busy now, with at least four part time jobs now… it’s kind of crazy, one of them being my guitar teaching/ coaching business. This church gig is gonna be part time for now, until the dust settles and we get better established. Currently the church gig, Sundays alone is about 8-10 hours with travel and my family with me, just on that day alone. Plus now, we’re most likely going to sell our house and move closer to the church. Which at this point, is going to take up our whole summer just to figure that out. So with that being said, I still have a lot to do here, but because I have so much on my plate, it’s gonna be minimal for awhile until I can figure all this out. I have been working behind the scenes to get what I do with my current private students/ clients codified in a way that I can package it here and for other places where I congregate with my “tribe.” I have so many content ideas and other things I wanted to launch but now this is taking a lot of what I have left, which frankly at the moment isn’t much… My question for you is, is it worth it to keep this group going. My heart is still in it, and I don’t want to let it go, but I’m praying about I need to focus on moving forward…

... warning... this might literally change everything for you... I'll be honest, the work I'm doing right now, on myself and subsequently on my business, it's not easy, but it's real, it's honest, it's raw... so here goes nothing... My story: Here it is: Mel Williams — From scared kid to professional musician and beyond... 🎸 There's a lie that gets told to almost every musician before they ever play their first note. It gets told in classrooms and living rooms and school hallways. Sometimes it's spoken out loud. Sometimes it's just a look — a smirk, a laugh, a moment where someone makes it clear that music is for other people. Talented people. Not you. I know when I heard it. I was in school, talking about what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said a musician. And a kid looked at me and said, "Oh yeah? Prove it. Sing something." I froze. 😒 Not because I wasn't a musician. But because I hadn't become one yet. And in that moment, with everyone watching, the silence felt like an answer. I carried that moment longer than I should have. But I never stopped wanting it. So I did what most self-taught players do — I went home and figured it out alone. Magazines. Books. Whatever I could get my hands on. I practiced. I worked. I cared more about getting better than almost anything else in my life. But for five years I had no real path. I was collecting things — riffs, songs, techniques — without any framework connecting them. Motivated but going nowhere. Grinding but not growing. Sound familiar? Here's what nobody tells you when you're in that place: the problem was never you. The problem was never talent. The problem was that you were trying to learn a language by collecting phrases — with no one to show you how the language actually works. Music is a language. And like any language, it has a structure, a logic, a grammar underneath it that makes everything else make sense. Once you understand that — really understand it — the instrument almost doesn't matter. I've played guitar, ukulele, bass, mandolin, harmonica. I've worked on my voice.

I'm involved in very intense training all week...