Welcome to tonebase!
Hey everyone - this is Igor from tonebase 
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It's such a pleasure to welcome you as one of the founding members of the tonebase community. Please introduce yourself in a post below with the following format:
- Where are you from and what's your favorite food from there? ;)
- What are you currently working on?
- What are you hoping to get out of this community?
I'll go first:
- While it's hard to pinpoint where exactly I'm from, lol, I just go with Bavaria Germany, and as favorite food, I'd choose Beer (surprise, surprise - closely followed by "Schweinshaxe" - Bavarian Pork-knuckle, which is quite delicious, but sooo heavy that it feels weird calling it favorite food)
- Trying to keep my Aranjuez in the fingers, even though certainly don't have that much time to practice as during college days...
- I hope we can facilitate authentic and interesting discussions around playing, learning, teaching, performing the guitar as well as all adjacent topics like concert prep, professional development, auditioning etc...
Now over to you (after some participation from our tonebase team members!)
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Greetings from the Black Hills, the home of my youth. I recently retired from a ~30 year career in health care living on the coast of Rhode Island (USA). I'm Alan Hoff. My favorite local food is fresh rainbow trout.
I am currently working on Sor Op 35 numbers 1 & 2, and Carcassi Op 60 # 7.
I have played the guitar for a long time, but did not start out well. I was largely self-taught (playing inexpensive instruments with poor intonation and difficult action - mostly steel string acoustic and electric, but at some point bought my first classical guitar.) I learned so many bad habits - they limited my progress at a certain point. A ~year ago, I decided I needed to start over. I have changed my seated position, left-hand and right-hand technique, literally everything. I have gone back to beginning, easy pieces, so that I can focus on improving my technique. This is why Tonebase is so valuable to me. In Rhode Island I had a good teacher. I do not have access to a good teacher where I am now living. I need guidance, and structure, which I believe Tonebase can provide.
I am excited to be more active with "community activites" like the challenges, and courses, and learning how to record.
Alan Hoff
