Hi All,
35, from Budapest, Hungary. Don’t know where to start, really, I’m kinda intimidated… 
Been around guitars since 15, but unfortunately in the middle of it all was a 9 year awful period in my life where I only regressed due to erroneously shifting my priorities and thus losing a huge amount of precious time.
Some personal rock-bottom moments led me back to guitar and music in general, so in the last 3 years or so I’ve decided that even though the career I chose does not make happy at all and would chose music or lutherie if I had the chance to re-do things, I can still become a cool player - work is only 8 hours, so there’s 16 left each day to do things that matter to me and make happy. My biggest obstacle is myself: OCDish attude (“Why bother moving on when I still don’t have xy technique down to 120%?” etc) and overall bad practice habits due to wanting to improve so badly, not to mention extreme lack of confidence when it comes to my playing. The latter is particularly mind boggling, because I know that if I could listen to myself playing like 5 years ago and today, I’d say that the two players are at least two leagues apart, yet I still feel ashamed when making mistakes.
Also, it took quite some time to realize how many and how huge holes I have in my fundamentals and it was extremely hard to admit that there are things that I cannot shun and despite being able to play some cool(ish) stuff, I need to (re)learn stuff the proper way, completely deconstruct my playing, go back to almost ground zero and build it up again. Not to mention ear training and theory… I was always fascinated by music, but when I wanted to learn, most everybody told me that I shouldn’t , because I “don’t have ears for it” and as a kid I believed them and kept thinking that those who can play an instrument or understand theory are of some alien breed. In reality it was just a case of not being exposed to proper stimuli. No bodybuilder gained muscle without pumping iron, right? Now I know that those ears can be trained and work on it every day.
I feel like this program finds me in the right mindset and look forward to defeating myself and becoming a “cool player”.
Music wise, my taste is quite broad, from Bill Evans to Black Metal. While I love many players like Kiko, Friedman, J.Becker and countless others, my latest and actual obsession is Dave Davidson from Revocation. In my eyes he is the archetype of a modern, metal oriented all around player.
Sorry for talking too much…
