I’m glad to have gotten the opportunity to build this site. So far, even though it’s still only the beginning, just putting the site together and researching methods of marketing the site has put me through a lot of learning experience.

Before I began putting Musician’s Dojo together, the first three entries of this site were actually written at Wordpress.com. The thing that I didn’t like about using their service was the fact that, although it was free and provided a very nice blogging community, designing was extremely limited. I had always wanted the chance to host my own wordpress site, and as soon as I got the chance I took it.

Why was Musician’s Dojo created?

I’m not one to brag to people about my abilities, but I am quite aware of what I can and should do with them. I am a guitarist. More broadly speaking, I am a musician. I don’t only play guitar, but I also enjoy playing drums, bass, and I also sing from time to time. One of the most important elements of my musicianship is my habit of studying music on a regular basis.

Around 1994 I began teaching guitar, and one of my first students was probably the most impressive and dedicated one I’ve ever had. From the experience of standing back and watching how people around me pick up on playing, and comparing it to how I, myself, learned, I gained a huge understanding in how the process of learning to be a musician worked.

Not only am I a musician, I also love to write. My favorite subject through all my schooling was anything english related. I can’t remember one time I made a horrible grade in the subject. I got into blogging around 2003 and fell in love with the fact that I could expose my writing instantly to people and have active comments on it.

In 2001 I got into learning HTML and web design. Around 2004 I learned CSS, and in 2007 I went to college to major in web design. Throughout the whole span between those years, I had created myself little sites that only lasted maybe a few months before it became either outdated or just not interesting enough to keep up on. So I ended up falling more toward the graphic design side of the scene. I got good at photoshop and played around with interface design and even photo manipulation. After a point though, I was determined to come up with a websiite idea that would best suit what I love to do and what I had a lot of knowledge about.

The point of Musician’s Dojo was to take my ability of being a musician, a guitar teacher, a web designer, and a writer, and wrap them all together to create a place people can be a part of to discover what being a musician is all about. It’s a good thing that I naturally became fascinated in human psychology on a general level since it has contributed to a good part of my music study and teaching.

What do I plan on writing about in the coming months?

Although I enjoy writing on the subjective aspects of being a musician, I believe Musician’s Dojo should (and will) cover a very wide variety of topics from the broad elements of musicianship, all the way down to specific subjects such as guitar techniques, rhythm methods, exercises, tablature layouts, and even artist reviews, and discussion on different genre’s of music. But that is just the beginning.

However, I insist the biggest and most valuable source of good topics will come from your feedback. Musician’s Dojo isn’t just my site. It’s actually your site too. I want you to be the judge as to what kinds of information to be put on here, by means of suggestions, but even more through the questions you have for me. Through good questions, you provide the Dojo with an abundance of topics for me to write about, and in turn giving a better resource to you, the audience, to turn to for all kinds of tips and advice for improving your musisicianship.

With that said, I wish to welcome all of you to Musician’s Dojo and I look forward, not only to blogging about what I teach, but more importantly, blogging about what I am learning from you throughout the time I am blogging here.

Cheers!

- G. E. Marrs