I decided to get better on the guitar about eight years ago… And I first met Tim Spencer in August 2008. At that moment I had been playing the guitar for a number of years… Since I was a teenager... but I was largely self-taught. Tim asked me at our first meeting what I wanted to accomplish on the guitar. I told him that I would like to become a better musician… Increase my skills on the guitar… Increase my skills as a songwriter. And so he showed me some scales… The Greek modes… The arpeggios… Scales for harmonic minor. I had no idea that getting better on the guitar would be so much about the scales! I briefly wondered to myself what are they have to do with becoming a better songwriter. But as I began work on the scales things started to happen for me musically! Ideas for songs came. Chord progressions came. My left hand and right hand strength increased. My voice got stronger as I sometimes sang along with the scales and sang the songs I was writing. My voice pitch got better (still working on that). Still working on all that . . .And while I worked I forgot about the other parts of my life! I began to realize that Music was about being in the moment. It became this whole other thing that I wasn't completely expecting. I also didn't expect that my teacher would become one of my brothers. One who I would confide in and visa versa. What is it Like to Get Better on the Guitar?