The package arrived last Saturday and I’ve had my nose in the book ever since. I really appreciate the time and effort (and willingness) you’ve demonstrated by making this planet a better place in sharing your knowledge so others can benefit. I’m an avid fan of The Adventures of Tintin, so I’m appreciating the format you chose. It’s both informative and sprinkled with humor (which helps to disarm those silly notions we have about the unknown). I teach keyboard on and off and use an approach that stresses chord shapes in the root and inverted positions. Your approach has transformed me into a happy, excited student on a journey to break the fret board code. For as much keyboard as I have played throughout my life (including recording technology to work with), I have always wanted to become as good, if not better on guitar. I’m 43 and figure it’s never too late to take a run at it!

Thanks again!

Kirk, I haven't said this to too many people, but you've changed my life. Wow do I wish I bought this package years ago! There is nothing close your instructional technique. I sincerely hope this is just the beginning. I've never felt like I could "play" the guitar. I could only memorize what I've learned and replay it. Thanks a lot for everything. You're a genius.

Oh Kirk this is good, soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good its unbelievable. Not going to watch the dvd for a week going to let my mind ponder with the info in the book. I just keep thinking about this its great, every 2 seconds it becomes more more clear that this is the way to think about the guitar layout. ... Thanx for a great product

Just had to write this after reading/looking through the material once again. I've only had it a week or so and I might not understand it all but the penny has well and truly dropped. Your method is brilliant. I never thought I would see such a clear 'picture' of how the theory relates to the guitar. In sharp contrast to most instruction methods I have tried PLANETALK (at least to me) takes hold of the dull and daunting and makes it stimulating, logical and above all FUN. I see the connection between it all. Now I want to get on with playing and not worry I am missing a vital part of some mystical puzzle. What a relief. I know I have work to do but that background frustration of not really having a grip on what is really going on has gone. I might not be able to do it but at least now I can see it. The rest is practise.

Cheers

JOHN

Just wanted to introduce myself - I just received my PT package in the mail and I'm thrilled with it. I've been playing guitar off and on for about 15 years. A friend of mine showed me basic chords just after high school, and I started trying to figure out what I was doing by listening to music and by reading (really awful) guitar instruction books. I could play things that I had acquired tabs for (Stairway, anyone? Wink ), but I was always horrible at soloing. People would tell me that I just needed to learn to feel the music, but other than that vague bit of advice and some scales, I had nothing else to go by. So I would content myself to playing rhythm. I tried getting books on scales and soloing, but I always thought to myself, "There's NO WAY that Robert Johnson and Lightning Hopkins were thinking in modes and scales," so I could never bring myself to take it seriously.

Fast forward to two years ago, when I broke down and took lessons from a great classical guitar player. I learned Giuliani, Mertz, and others, but 1) I still had no understanding of why I was playing the notes I was playing, and 2) my real love in music was always the blues, and this was about as far from that as I could get.

I stumbled on to PT when I was searching for info on how to play slide in standard tuning, and this is exactly what I needed. I wish I could go back in time and slap myself in the face with the book when I first picked up a guitar at 18.

Hi Kirk

Just wanted to write and say a big thanks for Planetalk. I ordered it a few weeks ago and have now finally had a chance to sit down and read/watch/begin to absorb it. For years I've been fruitlessly searching for a way to link together the little pockets of guitar knowledge that I've been plugging away at - and you have provided that link through Planetalk. I am now using the whole neck of the guitar when playing, and it's beginning to look like a familiar map (rather than a dense forest of random notes). Yesterday I had my first "Aha!" moment and was happily playing along to CDs all up and down the neck of the fretboard! I was grinning like a kid!

So thanks again, and hats off to you!

Hi Kirk, Received the Plain talk package last week. Read it once, listened and enjoyed the dvd and the CD. And started rightaway with practising... I have a problem though, this genious book of yours keeps on following me everywhere around the place. I take it with me to work, before I go to sleep I have to have a quick look into it, I even take it with me to the toilet...

It is a simple marvel...after a weeks practise, I'm already feeling a lot more confident halfway up the guitarneck. I reckon there will be more orders coming from Belgium... Keep up the good work mate,

Marc

Hi Kirk,

I received your Plane Talk book, dvd and slide rule. After watching the dvd and using the slide rule, the guitar fretboard is finally making sense to me! ... I have never heard anyone explain the fretboard like you do in this course. It really makes understanding the fretboard easy.

Thanks very much!

I just wanted to complement you on your usefulness practicality of plane talk. Having played guitar for a good while..ive been through the modes/scales and various caged minicourses..I should have found yours first...cuts to the meat of the matter...your slide rule will stay in my guitar case.....you need to make a permanent version (hard plastic) as I will wear this out!

Ok, I' have had PT for a week or two now and read the book and watched the DVD a couple of times. Now to be honest with everyone I'm one of those beginners that Kirk says PT wasn't really designed for. Ok, I know a few barre chords and a few minor pentatonic patterns but apart from that I'm a total beginner.

After going through PlaneTalk a couple of times I am quite frankly amazed at how simple it makes things. It does not teach you to play guitar as such BUT it EMPOWERS you to learn (with hard work), to teach yourself play any kind of music you like. It breaks all music down to its simplest form, the lowest common denominator; which to me is the way to solve any problem.

I honestly believe that I'll never have to spend any more money on guitar instructional material again (I'm not a big fan of having lessons) because anything I want to learn how to do is right there in front of me, plain to see. Now all I need to do is practice.

Thanks Kirk. Smiley