First of all, welcome! You have entered a very friendly community with players of all types, levels and backgrounds, with one thing in common. We love hanging out, making friends, and encouraging/helping one another. We hope you will give us a chance to get to know you as well! We love welcoming in new people and learning about their journeys as well. Here are some great ways for us to get to know about you! 🎸 👋 - Introduce yourself here https://www.skool.com/rock-n-blues-guitar-academy-5681/kicking-things-off?p=5b37a372 🎸 🤘 - Share pics of your guitar(s) here https://www.skool.com/rock-n-blues-guitar-academy-5681/do-you-guys-have-any-interesting-guitars?p=6150627c 🎸 🎛️ - Share pictures of your studio/jam room/playing spaces here. https://www.skool.com/rock-n-blues-guitar-academy-5681/studio-tour?p=b63c59d2 Here's a short guide how to get around this place https://www.skool.com/rock-n-blues-guitar-academy-5681/new-layout?p=b380e2e9 New to music? Guitar? Here's a fun little course and it's free. Go to Classroom at the top, and select the "Musical Alphabet explained like youre 5 Years old". It's super short, and the feedback's been great! Other than that, just dive right in! We like to go live a lot, we all love hanging out - you never know what might pop up here! We look forward to getting to know you, and are glad youre here! Along those lines here's how to join us for our live (sometimes unannounced) hangouts! https://www.skool.com/rock-n-blues-guitar-academy-5681/how-to-join-lives-with-sean-and-hang-out?p=445f5a17

Interesting! Paul Reed Smith had the first guitar with bird-inlays, built for Peter Frampton in 1976. Some of the birds were tricky to get right, so Paul invited a few friends over to help him draw some of the more difficult birds. “The ones that took the most revisions and thought were the 15th, 17th and 21st fret birds. Still to this day, people refer to the 24-fret bird as a ‘flying turtle,’ (which I can't see). It’s really an owl on a stick.” Starting from the nut down the birds are: - Peregrine falcon - Marsh Hawk - Ruby Throated Hummingbird - Common Tern - Coopers Hawk - Kite - Sparrow Landing - Storm Petrel - Hawk Landing - Screech Owl On A Branch (24-fret models only) Apparently Paul and his mum used to listen too the birds, whilst laying on the bed and try to Identify the songbirds. Cheers all. and you Anne!

So this is pretty cool! Two total surprises here! @Philip Cliff was a Facebook friend from over 20 years ago when we used to play an online game together and he was in my clan! Recently I learned he's a guitar player too, so I invited him to our community! He was a great mate back then, looking forward to becoming reacquainted with him in a new context! @David Aebisher Wow! David is one of my overseas online Academy students! I’m so excited to welcome him! Awesome guy - how did you find this place? Welcome, my friend!