Hi everyone! I am a 42-year-old learning guitar for the first time (started 2 weeks ago) and have recently come across Sebastian's music (youtube/tiktok/spotify), which has inspired me to become an instrumental guitar player. I just wanted to introduce myself and say hi! I live in Canberra, Australia, married with 3 kids and 2 doggies. I work full-time, have my own Photography business and love to learn! I just finished my Uni degree last year and have been looking for the next thing to learn - I have always wanted to learn guitar, and now I'm loving it!! It's been so nice reading all your posts, and I am so glad to be part of this wonderful community. Thank you for having me! I am learning on my second-hand guitars: a Yamaha acoustic (FG800) and a Yamaha Pacifica electric. I have a BOSS Katana 50 amp, which I am trying to tune for this style, getting there, but not quite dialled in. I am liking the amp that Sebastian has been using: the Yamaha THR30IIWL - the wireless and portability aspect is really selling it to me. Anyways, that is me. Hope you are all well and will speak to you soon. Scott Insta: @scotthhr

@Brian Hennessey recently made an interesting discovery when his track Lifted landed on the high-reach Spotify editorial playlist "Deep Focus" (see https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ5ahDUCaiH/). The rumors about so-called "ghost artists" and the term "Perfect Fit Content" (PFC) used internally by Spotify were already uncovered some time ago in Liz Pelly's book Mood Machine. What I've been missing since then is quantifiable evidence about how common these artists actually are in major playlists. To shed some light on this, I've spent the last few days building a tool with Claude Code to identify the "ghosts". I'm currently cross-checking the results with Brian and wanted to share them with you. Full methodology and results are in the HTML file below. 👇🏼 If you know of other suspicious playlists you'd like me to run through the tool, or if you have tips and ideas on how to improve the detection methodology, I'd love to hear your feedback. 🎸

Hey everyone, I'm very excited about this instrumental Beatles cover on my new EP, and it comes with a scenic music video too - filmed in south-east Australia's misty rainforests. If that sounds interesting, please give it a watch and a like (I'm trying to crack YouTube, haha) https://youtu.be/WfkNy9twi54 Cheers, Max

let's get to know each other. comment below, sharing a photo of your (current fav) guitar, how you got into making instrumental guitar music, and maybe what you do besides making music. I'm happy to have you here 🫶🏼 PS: oh also please feel free to link your music! PPS: there's also an app of Skool btw. which makes keeping up with what's happening in here a little easier.

Hello Everyone. First, I’d like to thank Sebastian for accepting me into this group and look forward to getting to know everyone. I’m hoping to get some sage advice. I am putting the final touches on my first song and have been doing a lot of research on the various distributors (DistroKid, CD Baby, etc.). To be honest, I’m a little overwhelmed by all the choices. For those of you who have already released your music, I would love to get your thoughts/experiences on which ones you would recommend (or would avoid)? I apologize in advance if this topic has been discussed before.