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Hey, guitar enthusiasts. I am here in Vermont of all places. I just flew in from Texas last night. Let me see if I can get a little bit more light on myself here. I was just in Texas. I saw that someone was here from Texas. We have Alabama in the house. I saw New Jersey was here earlier. So thank you so much for being here. Thanks for being on. And how about we get a little bit extra light in here for us? We'll do that. It's like scary Ghost Story day. So I wanted to pop in. Like I said, I'm up here in Vermont. I'm kind of in like the middle of nowhere. I'm almost to Canada. Vermont. And it's. It's very cold. So it's very, very different from. What was I going to say? Very, very different from Texas because It was like 68 in Texas. I was wearing T shirts and now I'm here and it's about 30 degrees. So I wanted to pop in, say hello because there's been a lot of exciting things going on in the back end and wanted to let you all know what's happening to keep you up to date. So I've been working a lot on the new website. We had a brand new website that got launched. Hello, Toronto. I'm very close to Ken. I'm so close Canada, that my phone sometimes sends me messages welcoming me to Canada. I'm like 30 minutes from the Canadian border in Vermont. But I had a new website that came out and there's a little bit of a glitch that we're working on fixing. I fixed probably almost 50% of the songs. I've been working really, really hard. Sometimes code with HTML and things on the back end gets a little tricky. But we have a cool new website, laurenbateman.com go to forward/ songs. If you do that, it's a whole new song page. And it's so much easier to find song lessons that are beginner, late beginner, intermediate. You could find my lessons that have finger picking. You could find the songs that just have the chords A, D and E or C E minor, G and D. My favorite four chords in the world. So. Hello, Frank from Trotola, that's also in North Carolina. Got a lot of people in North Carolina. We got Frederickburg, Virginia in the house here. So if you haven't checked out the new website, definitely go over laurenbateman.com whole new website that's been completely redesigned. And if you go there, you notice that we are having. It's Black Friday week and we do this once a year where we do a sale on the store so you guys can go and buy some courses at some deals. We have a special promotion on the Black Friday course but you can only get access to that if you're on the email list. Actually I think I put a, I might have put a link to it below this video but lauren bateman.com courses you can go and peruse all the courses because I know not all of you are absolute beginners. Some of you, you know, want to learn finger picking so you could pick up the finger picking one on one course. Peter from Grantville, Australia. Holy smokes. So it's early in the morning in Australia. Yeah. And this is a great time because I know, you know, I get a lot of students who are from Canada, even Australia and they say, Lauren, you know, do you have a sale going on? Because the conversion, I know sometimes, you know, Canadian to US or Australian to US dollar. Um, the conversion doesn't work out the greatest. So this is a great time that if you want to save some money and have the conversion work out for you, that's great. If you're in the uk, probably not going to be too many UK students on since about midnight there. But if you're in the uk, you guys always make out well because the conversion, the pound is usually always stronger than the dollar than the dollar. So that's great. But I just wanted to let you all know I want to pop in and say hi, I've been super busy. We'll have some Christmas songs coming out this weekend. I did record a Christmas one so after Thanksgiving you guys can start practicing your Christmas songs. I know we're already getting into the holiday season. I am adding some new videos, some new lessons. I think I recorded six or seven songs for the Christmas course because last year I did the Christmas course and I made sure it was like very absolute beginner so that even if you couldn't play chords, you could still play Christmas carols at Christmas. So this year I recorded a bunch of songs to strum and even do finger picking with. So I added a few extra lessons. They're not edited yet, but we're going to start editing those this week. So hopefully by the end of this month all those strumming lessons will be in on the Christmas course and that's also on sale so you can go pick that up for 50% off today. Again, Lauren bateman.com forward/courses I think I pinned a link over there in the chat. Winnipeg, Canada. Hello Newfoundland. Awesome, Maryland. I've Been to Maryland. Kentucky is a place I've never been to. And actually I've never been to Canada. I mean, I'm like 30 minutes from Canada. I should put my passport next time. I've actually never been to Canada. Can you believe that? I've been on the border. I've gone to Niagara Falls and I've looked into Canada, but I've actually never crossed the border into Canada. It's on my to do list, as well as going to New Zealand. That's one that I really, really want to. So I know, Peter, you're on that side of the world there. From Australia, East Texas, Pueblo, West Colorado, Fanta. I actually know where Pueblo is because someone I follow, a mentor of mine, he did a show in Pueblo, so I know where that is. Fantastic. Sudbury, Ontario and New North Carolina again. We get a lot of people in North Carolina, a lot of people in Texas. And like I said, I was just in Texas this past weekend and I was recording content. We did over 200 pieces of content. Not long videos, short videos. So some of them will be happening here on the guitar page. You'll see some of those. But I do have another YouTube channel that's more of a business page, so I'm trying to get some content up for that. Speaking of new YouTube pages, we have another project. I haven't released it officially. Officially yet, but I've let the bag out to my private community and I figured I would go live with you here. They got to see the video. They thought it was really cool. New Brunswick, Canada. Des Moines, Iowa, in Minnesota. Awesome. I just rounded Tears of the Kingdom, Western Norway. Fantastic. I love that. Norway's great. I'd love to go to Norway, too. We're working on a new channel. It's going to be a play along because, you know, one of the biggest things students tell me is like, Lauren, I'm still having trouble with the timing, lining up the chords with the lyrics, the strumming. So I'm working on a number of play alongs that are going to go along with the songs that are on the website. This way, if you're learning a song, you can play along with the song and the chords in the lyrics will be on screen and you'll see that the chords are going to change in time with where they're supposed to be. And there's also going to be a count on the bottom to help you guys with timing and counting. I know I'm, you know, I'm a big proponent of using a metronome, but I Do understand that it can be tricky matching up with that. With that metronome. So we're going to try these play along tracks. So as soon as that new YouTube channel goes live, I'll let you know. I think it's Lauren Bateman guitar play alongs or play along songs, something like that. So that'll be coming out soon. We only have one video completed so far. We did a wonderful tonight by Eric Clapton. I know we are finishing up Horse with no Name, simple man, we have Get Back by the Beatles. So we'll be doing a lot more of these songs over time. So as soon as that goes live, I'll let you know. We're just trying to create better resources for you to learn again. Lots of free resources for people here on YouTube. But if you appreciate my teaching, if I've helped you in any way, this would be a great week to go and support the channel, go and support me and my teaching. Because when, you know, when you buy one of those courses, that's what it does. It just. It just supports and lets me know that, you know, I'm doing a good job here over on YouTube and it motivates me to keep, you know, keep doing the fighting, the good fight for everyone here. We've got Alberta, Canada in the house. We've got lots of Canada here. Omaha, Nebraska. I've never been to Nebraska. Little Elm, Texas. Hello. From Ireland, from a German beginner. Oh, well, welcome. So excited. It's so cool that I have students in Europe. I think that's crazy. In Australia and, you know, Japan and Kenya. I mean, I get. It's so exciting to be a guitar teacher online and. And be here and talk to you. Hello, Christopher. Nice to see you in Canada again. Yes. You told us about easy chords. That was immensely helpful. Yeah, you know. Yeah. Simple man is a great song. We're gonna. That will be coming out soon. But yeah, you know, that's that who I am. You know, I always tell people, you know, I get. I get a lot of people who say bad things about me because I take that approach of the simple chords. But I understand. Listen, I taught in person. I had a private studio and I just noticed, you know, for a lot of my older students, it just having that extra little step of doing the simple chords, you know, just getting the hands moving. All right. And as I get older, you know, I dislocated the. You can see my weird pinky. I dislocated my finger during COVID so that this hand tends to hurt sometimes. So I understand now what it feels like to have arthritis in your hands and have tendon problems and all that stuff. So having ways to play chords and make things a little bit simpler and a little bit more accessible. Take a song like simple ma'. Am. Okay? Very, very simple chord progression. It is CG and A minor. Okay. It's a minor twice. Okay. And you know, if you can work through that very simply, you know, it's a. It can be a very intricate song. We can make it very hard. I do have an intermediate lesson on that where I show you how to do the picking and all the intro. But in the beginning, when you're learning guitar, it's all about having fun, okay? And that's why I don't focus a lot on theory. I don't focus on bar chords in the beginning because that stuff is difficult. Not that you, you're never going to get there. Not that we're never going to do that. But in the beginning, you need to focus on loving this instrument. And I know we're coming up to New Year's and a lot of people, you know, Christmas. A lot of people are going to get, you know, guitars for Christmas. If you know someone who might be interested in my course, you know, you can shoot a message to info lauren bateman.com infourenbatement.com if you want a gift course to someone, let us know. We're more than happy to set that up for you as well. But I know a lot of people, you know, January's coming up. You're going to make those New Year's resolutions to learn guitar. And you know, if you start with the hard stuff, it makes you want to quit that much sooner. And that's why I say take the simple approach. Take the simple approach. Have fun. We can make things hard. Listen, I can make it really hard for you if you want to, but I have found from my personal experience that students enjoy having things be a little bit easier in the beginning. They like the step by step process. They like the blueprint. That's my science background. I'm very methodical. And a lot of my older students, I don't know if there's anyone in the chat here who's, who's done my course. Sometimes people just bought after watching one of your videos. Thank you, Terry. That's awesome. We have more people from the Netherlands here. Eddie, I am doing great. I hope you're doing great. I'm a little tired. Is it Jolie, Illinois? Hello, Christopher. Nice to see you again in New Jersey's in the House, Rhode island, very, very close. I got home at my plane got delayed coming home from Texas last night. I was supposed to leave Texas at like 6:30 and I was supposed to get home at 11:30pm so that I could get home, go to bed so we could come here to Vermont for Thanksgiving here. And my flight got delayed. We ended up not leaving until I think we took off like at 11:15pm so basically we took off and I was supposed to be landing in Boston so I didn't land in Boston until 3:30. This I slept for a few hours, got up, started working. We drove here to Vermont. It's about a three and a half hour drive from, for us from where we live to get up to this place in Vermont. And then it's snowing up here. There's snow on the ground. Yesterday I was wearing, I was wearing a T shirt in Texas yesterday It was like 68, 69, 70 and I was like this is T shirt weather. I love this. And now we're up here and it's like, you know, it's in the 20s and it's snowing.

Very, very different. Oh, we do have Alex in the UK here. Hello. So yeah, you know we got a lot of great things going on over on the website. So definitely go over there, check out the new songs. The way it's organized, that's laurenbateman.com backslash songs. We made it a lot easier to get to laurenbatement.com backslash songs. I've gotten a lot of great feedback on how that's organized. And when we start incorporating these play along videos we're going to add a play along tag so this way you can look at what lessons you know have play along videos that go with them too. And we're going to keep adding that. You know we have 250 songs on the website right now. I can't believe how many songs are on my website. And we're going to try and do a play alongs for a lot of them or at least a lot of the popular ones. You know, simple man.

Some CCR stuff, some Beatles stuff, a lot of the popular songs. We'll, we'll try and get some stuff in there. Hi from Scotland, Chris. I love Scotland. We were just talking about Scotland because we went there in April and it was so much fun. My Zelda T shirt. No, I don't, I, I've got Top Gun on today so I'm not flashing anyone but it's, I have Top Gun on right now but I, I, yes, my Zelda T shirt. You know, it's so funny. You know, everyone talks about my T shirts. I how many people pay attention to the T shirts? Lauren says hello. Lauren, do you think an epiphone 59 Les Paul Ellie is the wrong guitar for 55 year old beginner wondering if I purchased the wrong guitar. You know Lawrence, it's really, it's hard for me to say because you know, guitars are so personal and they're so unique. All right. Just like we're unique. So I would say if it's comfortable, the fact that you got an electric is it's gonna be a little easier to play. The only thing I don't like sometimes about the Les Paul guitars is because they're solid wood, they're very heavy, they're very heavy. So I would just make sure if you keep that guitar that you get a really wide strap. This way it'll take some of the pressure off the shoulder. That's something I know with Les Paul guitars that sometimes the weight of them causes shoulder issues. But I know a lot of people who are love the epiphone style Les Paul style guitars. So you know, I, I don't think you can go wrong with the guitar if you're spending 300 or above as long as you're getting a good quality. Epiphone makes great guitars. So I'm sure you got a good one. Just make sure it's comfortable for you. Knoxville, Tennessee watches my videos all the time. Well, nice to have you here, Eddie. Nice to say hello. We have Michael from Chicago. Literally just starting on guitar in my 60s, Chris says, you know, and that's the great thing, you know, a lot of my students break up my Ibanez. A lot of my students are actually in their 60s and 70s. Did you guys know that? Guys and gals. Did you know that? 50s, 60s and 70s. I do have quite a few students who are in their 80s and I have a number of students in their 90s that have actually reached out to me. That's how I know I've had a few people in their early 90s that have taken the course as well. But the majority of my students 50 60s and 70s. So if you think you waited too long, you didn't, you didn't. You're in the right spot, right time. And if you're looking for a great course and a great blueprint, the seven level systems where it's at and you know, go to. There's the link below this description in the video for the Black Friday sale or if you're on my mailing list. You should have gotten an email yesterday about the special we're having on my seven level system. Great. Go pick that up. You know, having that blueprint is very important. And having. Having someone who has designed a course specific specifically for older learners. And if you're younger, you know, if you're in your 30s and 40s, it doesn't mean you can't work through the seven level system. It just means that you might work through those first couple of levels very quickly. I found most of my students are in their 20s and 30s have. You know, they can move much faster. They're able to pick up those three finger chords much easier, But I would still take them through the process, and that's fine. Hey, if we spent a week or two on level one, and we move on to level two, there's nothing wrong with that. Having. Don't underestimate having a solid foundation, okay? Don't underestimate that. T says, I've taken Ms. Lawrence course. Thank you, T. You email me all the time. And I can actually sit down and play my own music. A vagrant melody in my head is suddenly coming from my guitar. Can't recommend this enough. Thank you, T, for that. You know some Skinner, too. Yeah, we have. I know Simple Man's being done. We'll probably do Sweet Home Alabama because that's pretty popular one on the site, too. I do have a couple lessons on Sweet Home Alabama. I have a beginner lesson, and I do have a more intermediate lesson here on YouTube. If you want to learn some of the licks and riffs and stuff that you can put in between, that's a great one. Started playing at 74. Good for you. Two months into the seven level. Still. Still a beginner, I'm guessing, is what you meant, Mark. Awesome. See? What do we say, 74. All right, guys, you're never too young to start, okay? And one of my favorite quotes is, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. But the next best time to do it is today, okay? And this is the week to do it. This is the week to do it. It's Black Friday week. This is the week where I offer some specials on my courses. There's my strumming course. I love my strumming course. It's one of my favorites. You know, the seven level is the one that most people start with, but if you're a little bit beyond that beginner level, you're like, lauren, I know my chords already. I've got some strumming down But I feel like I'm just playing that same strumming pattern over and over again. That's the strumming course. Laurenbateman.com Strumming. I can throw that in the chat over here for those of you who are interested in improving your strumming. And I just added, I think I just added about a dozen new lessons to that course. So I think that course is about 50 lessons now. It's a very, very substantial course. It's not a mini course, it's a really full blown course. And it goes through teaching you lots of different strumming patterns and rhythms from the absolute beginner level more to an intermediate level. We're doing percussive rhythms, we're doing, you know, multi measure rhythms, lots of upstroms, lots of syncopated rhythms, rock rhythms. What did you say? Carolyn, I love you. What do you got? And I'm kind of old and I love all your courses so much that I stopped private lessons at your music school. You did, Carolyn. Love how the lessons are organized. Yes, I work with you, but it's still true. So Carolyn, let me tell you a story about Carolyn because Carolyn, you know, our good old Carolyn here. And Carolyn is now 70 and she started with me in her 60s and she worked at my music school and she took lessons at the music school and now she, uh. Oh, hey, Rachel, nice to see you live. I recognize your profile picture. Nice to see you. But yeah, so she worked for me and I said, you know, Carolyn, I was like, you can work for me as long. I said, you're gonna have to come here in a walker. Well, you know, now we're doing the online stuff so Carolyn doesn't have to come to the school in the walker. She can just. You can stay home in the walker, Carolyn. Okay, but for now you're good, you're walking around, she's at the events, she's helping us out. She's doing a great job. And you know, I love having Carolyn with me because she can speak your language, she knows what it's like to learn guitar older. She knows what it's like, the frustrations. And you know, she's, she's taken my courses, she's gone through them all right? I know she, she got 71 years old, Carolyn.

You, you know what? But the thing is, Carolyn's 71 and she like runs circles around the 20 year olds that work for me, even the 30 year old. So that's why, Carolyn, I like each other. We keep each other young. So I'll be like Carolyn, go to bed. It'll be 10 o' clock at night and Carolyn will be messaging me, telling me, I just made another sale, someone else signed up. And I'm like, that's great, Carolyn. We need to go to bed now. But Carolyn, I love you. You're the best. Thank you for working with me. You know, if you send an email to info@lauren bateman.com if you have a question about any of the courses, you'll most likely get a response from Carolyn. And she does rock. She does rock. Harold from Pennsylvania. Hello. First guitar teacher. Oh, that's so, that's so awesome. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. Paul Kelly is a legend here in Australia. It'd be great to see you do a song. Oh, I don't. You know, Peter, I don't know who Paul Kelly is. I'm gonna have to look him up. See, this is what I love about this. You all teach me new things all the time. All the time. So it's great. Lauren's energy is off the chart. I try not to drink coffee. I like espresso. I like espresso with sambuca because I'm Italian, so I do espresso with sambuca usually in the afternoon. I drink coffee in the morning just because Megan makes it. I don't particularly like coffee. I have enough energy. I actually did have coffee this morning. I did have a cup of coffee and a cup of coffee for me is like half a cup of almond milk and half a cup of coffee. So it's like half a cup. It's funny when I would drink real coffee, like a regular cup of coffee with very little milk in it. If I went to like a diner or something, my team always knew when I had coffee I'd be bouncing off the wall. I do not need caffeine to hype me up anymore. I've got. I flew in at 4 o'clock in the morning and this is how much energy I have. It's just if you met my mother, you know, people who've got the. Carolyn's met my mother, you. That's where I get my energy from is my mother. My mother's 70 years old and she is like a little jackrabbit bouncing all over the place. And that's where I get my energy from. Paul says thanks for updating your website. I really appreciate your efforts to help make it easier to find songs at eye level. You are so welcome. And I'm going through, I have to go through because I'm sure there's More songs that have GE minor, C and D. I was thinking of adding another category for C, F, G, and A minor, because there's a lot of songs that can be played at the beginner level, but we avoid them because they have the F chord. But you all know that I teach you the easy fix for the F chord, it's the F major 7. So I was going to add that as another category for people to search, because if you're a beginner and you don't know bar chords, but you do know that F major 7, you could get away with playing a lot more songs on my website. So we will be adding a new category for that. So, Paul, you are so welcome. John Earl. Lauren. I'm 84 years old from Australia. Another Australian in the house. Love it. And six months into your seven level and having a great time with it. Love your videos, John. Thank you so much. I really appreciate that. 84, God bless you. That is awesome. You're never too old to fulfill your dreams. All right, See, John's here doing it. Everyone is here going through the course, or they're here on YouTube, learning. All right? It's never too late. It's never too late to start. Start. And I've had many students come to me who have told me, you know, I had a guitar teacher, and they told me I was too old or they told me I wasn't good enough. You know, there's a lot of guitar teachers out there who are great guitar players, but they're not great teachers, unfortunately. And. And that's the sad part of it, is there's a lot of really great players, but they have a really hard time getting themselves back into the beginner mindset and remembering how hard it is to just get a single note to ring through, never mind doing a C chord with three fingers or a bar chord. I used to feel so sad for students. I would have students come in. You know, I live in Boston, so obviously there's a lot of Berkeley teachers in my area. And students would come in with their notebooks from the teacher that they worked with before me, and it'd be full of bar chords and music theory. And I was like, I'm so sorry. Can I just rip this up on you right now? And they'd be like, please. I'm like, we're going to take a different approach. I was like, I would never teach you a bar chord in your first week of lessons. I go, that's just torture. That's mean. That's just mean. Honestly, when I worked at my students in person, they had a work. They had to prove to me that they could do bar chords. We had all of our open chords. It takes strength, it takes flexibility, it takes dexterity, and they're awesome. Learning bar chords is great because it really opens up the entire fretboard for you. But until then, you know, it becomes tricky. And if you're looking for a step by step system, I always have a system for doing things. I have my Power and Bar Chord Mastery course. That's a great course. That's a good little mini course. I feel like it's 20 lessons and it's basically my system for getting your hand comfortable for playing power chords first and then developing into bar chords. Because we want to develop the strength. There's a huge strength component to bar chords that a lot of people skip over. And I also have some great stretching exercise to get your hand stretched stretches. So that's the power in mass power. And Bar Chord Mastery course that's also on sale. Lauren bateman.com forward/courses Big Black Friday sale week. So if you've been waiting to grab one of my courses, you know, if you live in Australia or you live in Canada or one of these other places where the conversion doesn't work out for you, this is a great week to jump on some courses and grab them. Absolutely. Your live workshops look great. Oh, thank you, Sean. They're a lot of fun. And. And we have another one. We actually are doing another one. It's going to be in Woburn, August 16th, 17th and 18th. So if you were on this at the beginning, it played a trailer from our event this, this past September. We had so much fun. I think we have 47 people in the room and we played music together, we had some bands, we had a jam room. It was, it was a lot of fun. I love meeting students in person. We will be updating the website. There'll be information we've already sold. I think we've already sold most of the tickets. I think we've sold like 80% of the tickets for next year. So we will be opening it up to the public. So if you're interested in going, it's in Woburn, which is just north of Boston. But if you're on my email list, then you'll get the information. We're just trying to do all the Black Friday stuff this month and then we'll tell you more about the event that's coming up. Your new site certificate is invalid. Is it interesting? Let me go over there and if it is I will, I will check that out. It might be because I didn't use the HTTPs version. It's coming up fine on mine. I'm not sure where you are, Nick. If you could let me know because I just typed in the website and I didn't get any warnings or anything about the SSL certificate. So definitely let me know and I can have the web person check out on that. So thank you. I always appreciate that. You know, I don't find all of the. The fixes, but you might if you, you know, maybe try the TS version. So I'll put it in the, in the chat here. So it's gonna be lauren bateman.com backslash courses. That's the HTTPs version. So try that one. That one might be the safer. The safer site with the certificate. The real half and half. Hi, Lauren. I've learned a lot from you. I watch your videos as much as possible. Years old. I practice nearly every day. Keep up the good work. Oh, from Sutton Codfield, uk. I'm gonna try and get to the UK in May. I've been so busy doing other things. You are so true in what you say, Lauren. Thanks, Rachel. I'm gonna try and maybe do an event in London in May. It's in the works. We're trying to find a space to have. To have the event. It will be a very small, intimate event. I did this in some Scotland. We had like 16 people in the room. I can't do much bigger than that because it's only me and Megan and we don't have our staff. Like the event in Boston, you know, we had like 50 people, but I had, you know, extra staff. Carolyn's there, other teachers are there to help me. So you have a little bit more support on the staff side. So if I go overseas to Europe and do an event, it's just a much more smaller and intimate event. Come back to the uk, Alex, I couldn't make it when you're in Scotland. Well, there you go. I'm gonna be. I'm gonna be in Spain early May. So I'm looking at the calendar. I'm gonna try and get to the uk. I just have to find a venue. I'm looking for a venue right now. So I'm probably gonna fly until London May 1, which means that gives me a day to kind of re acclimate, you know, because the time zone difference. And we'll probably do like a meet and greet on Friday, which would be May 3rd, and then Saturday, May 4th, I do the event. And then on the 5th, I have to fly out. I have to go to Spain. So if we do it, it would be the first weekend in May. So keep that on your calendar. Save the date. You know, like I said, we're just looking for a venue. I'm trying to make it. I'm going to be there no matter what. I'm going to be in London on May 1. I'm just looking for a venue to make this happen. So. So keep your eyes posted. Make sure you're on the mailing list because that's what we'll give you all the information first. Hi, Lauren. I've been in your seven level since November and I've learned a lot. Thank you so much. And I also see a lot of your YouTube. Well, Madeline, thank you so much for supporting and buying the course. Really appreciate that. And thank you for giving a shout out. Just got back from Spain. It was beautiful. I haven't been to Spain. Last time I was in Spain was in high school. I think I was. It might have been my senior year. So I think I was 18. So it's been how old am I now? I have to do the math. It was 22 years ago. The last time I was in Spain was 22 years ago. I do remember really liking Spain. I loved it a lot and reminds me a lot of Italy in ways and I love Italy. So I'm excited to go back to Spain. Love drinking some wine and Spanish wine is very great. I actually think I was drinking a Spanish wine earlier before I came on. But yeah, I'm really excited to go back to Spain. I'm going with a friend of mine who is a sommelier. I don't know if I, I never say that word right, but they're like the wine connoisseurs, the sommelier. And so she's doing a little wine tour in Spain and I told her when she did a wine tour that I, we would go with her. So that's why. That's why we're going to Spain to drink wine. I mean, we're going to see things in Spain too. I don't even know where we're going to Basque bass Spain. B, A, S, Q, U, E. I don't even know if I'm saying that correctly. So I apologize. But if anyone's ever been there, that's. That's where we're going to be going. And that's going to be in. In the first week of early part of May. So that's where I'll be. And I'm going to Try and make an event happen in London. I'll let you know. But right now I wanted to come live, let you know. Website is live. New website, so go check it out. The new song section is awesome. 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