🌍 Where in the world are you tuning in from?

Quick show of hands. 🎸

The tonebase Guitar community is more global than you'd guess — we've got members across five continents, in cities you'd expect and ones you wouldn't.

💬 Drop a one-line reply:

  • Where are you playing from?
  • How long have you been playing?
  • What's on your stand right now?

That's it. Three lines. Let's see what this community actually looks like in 2026.

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    • James_Charlton
    • 4 days ago
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    Hi,

    I'm in Lenexa, KS also known as Kansas City or 'fly-over country'.  I've played off and on (mostly off) for decades and am currently working on Blott en Dag and some blue grass stuff.   

    • “Do or do not. There is no try”
    • Michelle_P
    • 4 days ago
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    • Hardeeville, South Carolina, US
    • Started playing acoustic guitar at age 62 in 2020. Started playing classical guitar a little over two years ago. Never really read music or played an instrument before, although I did quite a bit of singing. 
    • Preparing for my first recital! So, there are 10 "easy" pieces on my music stand right now. The usual suspects: Carcassi, Carulli, Calatayud, Giuliani, Mertz, Sagreras, plus a piece by Catharina Pratten & Tatiana Stachak. Don't have my encore piece determined yet and I'm considering a piece from Maria Linnemann or Thierry Tisserand. The Linnemann piece would be brand new but the Tisserand piece I've played already. Decision, decisions...
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    • Andre_Bernier
    • 4 days ago
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    Québec city, Canada

    Started playing guitar in November 2019. Started Classical guitar and joined Tonebase in November 2022.  I am learning Villa-Lobos, Prelude no.1 using the Tonebase track and polishing few other pieces from Leo Brouwer, Catalayud, Björnsson and Sor

    • BLaflamme
    • 4 days ago
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    • Drummondville, Quebec, Canada
    • I started in the '80s!
    • Too much works standing in the iPad, but the last one I worked on today was Andecy by Andrew York!
    • Amateur guitarist/lutenist
    • David_Krupka
    • 3 days ago
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    Toronto, Canada. Began with 'acoustic' guitar lessons at about age ten; classical guitar lessons throughout my teens. Played only sporadically during my twenties and thirties. Returned to regular practice at about age forty. Soon encountered 'early music' and, after acquiring the relevant instruments, devoted increasing time to lute and vihuela. Gave up playing altogether in my late fifties after losing 'normal' use of my left hand to cerebrovascular injury. Gradually resumed guitar practice, initially as part of a program of rehabilitation, but later for its own sake. Joined ToneBase primarily as a guide for re-learning, but found it rekindled my youthful enthusiasm for guitar! On my 'music stand': the entire series of repertoire books of the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM). Currently aiming to play half a dozen 'etudes' at every grade. (Sorry, that's a lot more than a single line!)

      • BLaflamme
      • 3 days ago
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       Great to read more about your journey David, do you now if RCM sells the guitar series as PDF, I see nothing on their website?

      • Amateur guitarist/lutenist
      • David_Krupka
      • 3 days ago
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       As far as I know, there is no official digital version of the repertoire books. Pirated pdf versions of some of the older editions can be found online. You might be interested to hear that about half of the modern repertoire in the most recent (2018) edition is licensed from Les Productions d'Oz/Doberman-Yppan. So Quebecois composers are quite well represented!

      • BLaflamme
      • 3 days ago
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       Great to see we are well represented! I would rather pay for their digital edition than have a pirated badly scanned version! 😅

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      • Jim_king
      • 2 days ago
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       I like the idea of playing some pieces from each grade of the RCM series.  I have that same series, so maybe I should revisit them and start pulling some pieces out to play.  However, for now, I will stick to the lower grades😄

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      • David_Krupka
      • 2 days ago
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       There's a lot of good repertoire in the series, Jim. Even at the lowest grades there are some interesting pieces. I recommend having a look at the studies in particular - you're sure to find a few worth learning!

    • Dale_Needles
    • 3 days ago
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    From San Francisco, California.  Started studying the classical guitar with George Sakellariou in the 1970s and then with Maestro Abel Carlevaro in the 1980s in Montevideo, Uruguay. Currently I am working methodically through Carlevaro's complete works for solo guitar, of which there are more than 70 compositions. 

      • BLaflamme
      • 3 days ago
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      Great to have you here Dale!

      • Dave
      • 2 days ago
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       very interesting.  I do daily work in Book 3 and 4 of School of Guitar, and have my copies since about 1975. I have not learned any of the his works yet. 

      I worked with Maestro Carlevaro in the 1985 Boston Guitarfest, then run by the Boston Conservartory.  

    • mike.12
    • 3 days ago
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    Vegas.  

    Just returning after 15+ year break(injury).  

    Assad sketches and a few beginner Guiliani/carulli pieces.

    • Ron.3
    • 3 days ago
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    I live in Farnham in the UK. I've been playing classical guitar on & off for 57 years after playing in a rock band on a homemade guitar! Currently trying to polish the Prelude from Pasaje Abierto by Edin Solis.

      • Amateur guitarist/lutenist
      • David_Krupka
      • 3 days ago
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       'played in a rock band on a homemade guitar' - that wouldn't have been the 'Red Special' by any chance?

      • Ron.3
      • 3 days ago
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       Unfortunately no 😂

      • Amateur guitarist/lutenist
      • David_Krupka
      • 3 days ago
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       Well, at least you had the right idea!

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      • Jack_Stewart
      • 3 days ago
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       I had no idea what the 'Red Guitar' was so I Googled it. This was no cigar box and bailling wire. He continues to use that guitar today.  I have to admit that Brian May is a pretty impressive dude! 

      • Amateur guitarist/lutenist
      • David_Krupka
      • Yesterday
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       Yes, definitely an accomplished gentleman! And judging from what I've seen in interviews, a genuinely humble person too. Not at all the 'rock star' stereotype!

      • Steve_Price
      • 12 hrs ago
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       Pasaje Abierto is such a great piece. I'd worked on the prelude a while back and even considered using it for the unfinished business challenge. It's so lovely, so I wish you the best on it. 

      • Dave
      • 9 hrs ago
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       maybe you all know this but Brian May is also the holder of a PhD in astrophysics, awarded in 2015. 

      • Ron.3
      • 9 hrs ago
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       Thanks Steve. When I first worked on the Prelude a few years ago my fingering choices seemed to work well, but a few years on I've had to make some adjustments as my fingers don't stretch like they used to! Hopefully I can get the revised fingering to become second nature but it's taking longer than I'd like so it may stay unfinished for a bit longer!

      • Amateur guitarist/lutenist
      • David_Krupka
      • 9 hrs ago
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       Apparently, he enrolled in the graduate program when Queen was just another band playing the local clubs. I don't imagine the decision to leave school was an easy one! Brian Cox is another erstwhile musician who wound up in academia, transitioning from keyboardist (Dare and D Ream) to particle physicist. Nothing says you have to be dumb just because you're a rock star!

      • Dave
      • 9 hrs ago
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       Indeed Brian Cox, a hero of mine.   cuz Things Can Only Get Better, right? :-)

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