PRS Surprise + I Met Dave Grohl & What He Said SHOCKED Me!

Hey, guitar enthusiasts. Lauren here. Making sure you got my microphone. Picking up here. So nice to see everyone. I saw that we have some people here from Indiana. I'll be checking in with my chat. My chat's over here. My camera's over there. But we're gonna be going live. I have some cool stories to share with you. Lots going on. I've been very, very busy. I have my live event coming up in Boston in next week, so.

So I've been a little bit busy, so I wanted to go live and just say hello to everyone and share some cool stuff. Because actually it was last month I had a student. Hi, Clayton, how are you doing? And Clay, Nice to see you all. I had a student last month who reached out to me. Apparently, believe it or not, he is best friend. Friends with the bass player from the Foo Fighters. It is like, do you want to go see the Foo Fighters and get, like a VIP experience now? I did not know what this VIP experience was. I figured, you know, like, maybe some front row seats or something. No, we actually watched the show from the stage. I was on the side of the stage watching the show. But we did go back to backstage, and who walks in but Dave Grohl, who is the lead singer of the Foo Fighters. He also, you know, people are like, oh, it's the drummer from Nirvana. So he was the drummer for Nirvana as well. Hello, Ohio. Tiffany, Alex, Nice to see all on here. Robert. Hello. Hello. Hello. So we go backstage and Dave walks back and. And my student Jim was like, okay, I didn't plan this. He's like, I wasn't. I didn't know Dave was going to come back here. So Jim starts telling Dave about how he. He started learning guitar about six months ago. And yeah, Dave is a really good guy. I mean, super, like, super down to earth nice guy. Really awesome. And I love the conversation we had because Dave was telling him how he had just started learning to play guitar about six months ago. And, you know, Dave's like, oh, that's great. That's awesome. And he's like, you know, I have so much respect for people who can, like, read music, because he's like, I can't read a lick of music. And I said to Jim, I said, did you just hear what he said? Did you just hear what he said? And Jim's like, yes, I know. Because I know Even here on YouTube, you know, sometimes I'll post things and I'll be like, you don't need. You don't need music theory. You don't need A bunch of stuff. You don't need a sight read music to enjoy the instrument. And, and Dave obviously is enjoying the instrument on a professional level and he can't read a lick of music. And you're like, Lauren, how does he do that? So the interesting thing, you know, with Dave, I've seen interviews and he talked about it a little bit when, when we were there. He sees the guitar as like, almost like a drum because he's, he's a drummer, he's a drum player. So he sees the bass notes, the thick strings of the guitar, almost like a kick drum. And then he sees the treble notes as kind of like symbols or the snare of the, of the drum. So it's cool. So when you hear some of his rhythms after hearing that, you can see, you know, when you listen to a song like Everlong or something, you can hear how that rhythm is reminiscent of a drum beat in a drum track. And I've been taking some drum lessons recently and I'm like, yep, I can totally, totally hear that. Tiffany says thank you for all your videos. I always wanted to play guitar. Your videos taught me the basic four chords and I'm still learning. Well, you know what, Tiffany, that's awesome. Good for you. Great job. And that's all you need is four chords. You just need those four chords and you literally can play thousands of songs. You can beginner. Ish here. Bar notes suck. Yeah, bar chords do. But practice makes perfect. Keep posting. You're welcome. I will. Um, yeah. And a note on bar chords, you know, because that always comes up. A note on bar chords is, you know, if you're just starting with the guitar, I usually don't recommend you jump into bar chords right away. I know some guitar teachers, they teach bar chords in their beginner courses. Um, I don't because they are very hard, they're frustrating, and they do require. They require a strength component. There is a strength component to it. And flexibility. You need to have more flexibility. And when you're a beginner, you don't quite have the dexterity, the flexibility, or the strength to play those chords. It's much easier on an electric guitar than an acoustic guitar. But, you know, it is a much more difficult skill. So I usually don't teach that. So if you're, if you're a student in my 7 level guitar system, if you're a student of mine in the guitar course, say hello or put a 1 in the chat so I can see you there. But if you're in my seven level system, I, I show you the easy fixes to play bar chords just to get you to play more songs. Because really the whole goal of the seven level system is to just get you having fun, get those mechanics down. Like the first three levels we're learning strumming and chords and stuff. But a lot of it is the finger dexterity, getting those hands moving. Because I would say one of the biggest difficulties my students tell me, and I hear it, I see it here on YouTube, I see it in my private community, I see it in the emails is like how to get my chords to be faster, how to get my fingers faster, faster fingers. So we do a lot of work. Thanks Jack. Thank you. You've helped me so much. Number one, he's in the course.

We do a lot on, on dexterity because I think that's something people, people don't focus a lot on, especially if you get a teacher. I was reading something from a student today who posted, she just joined the seven level and she's like, I had a teacher, she was doing one on one lessons with the teacher and she was like, he was just, he was more obsessed with like his ability to play the guitar and his musicianship. He was probably an amazing guitar player. And you know, when I first started teaching I didn't think I was going to be a good guitar teacher because I didn't have the skills that a lot of good guitar players do. Like, hands down, you take someone like Rick Beato, he is a much better guitar player than I am, phenomenal guitar player. And I, I probably would, would bet money, you know, that, that Justin and Andy and Marty, all those guys are much better guitar players than me. But over the years I've learned that guitar teaching is a separate skill set. And some of those guys are great, great teachers too. Amazing people. I have so much respect for all the guitar teachers here. Ciao from Roma. Hello Lori. I'm trying, I'm still working on getting my dual citizenship, you know, to Italy. I'm waiting. They're still trying to find my great grandfather's gift certificate. So my great grandfather is from Gaeta, which I never knew. I knew I knew my grandfather's history because my grandfather, who's my mother's father was born in Italy, Naples, a little area called Castell Baronia. I stayed a summer there when I was little, but I didn't know much about my, my, my grandmother's side because they were all American. So my grandmother was born in America and my great aunt who's still alive, I think she's 96 or 97. She was born in America, so they were Americans. So I never thought to look at their side of the family. So it turns out my great grandfather born in Italy in Gaieta, and his wife was also born in Gaeta. They got married there. So I'm trying to get my dual citizenship. So we're working on it. Karen says you helped me a lot with your Hotel California lesson. You're welcome. Yeah, see, something like that. Hotel California is a song that has a lot of bar chords. But if you know how to use a capo, right here, you know, if you have a teacher who's willing to use a capo and make it easier for you so you don't have to use bar chords. I mean, eventually, yes, you might want to work up to that, but now you don't have to. You can play Hotel California, have it sound exactly like the song, and use a capo. So if you're interested, go check that out. It's Lauren Bateman, Hotel California. You can. You can go check that out there. And it's just an easier way. Easier. It's not beginner, but it's an easier way to play Hotel California without all of those bar chords. I would suggest to learn power chords first, then bar chords. Exactly. Joseph and I have a power and bar chord mastery course. So if you go to lauren bateman.com forward/courses. All my courses are there. But I do have a power and bar chord mastery course, and that's exactly what I do, because power chords help you get comfortable with the feel of bar chords. It's very, very similar shape. So I start that, too. And you can start developing the strength in. In the fretting hand, too. Oh, Sri Lanka's in the house here. Awesome. She goes. Sean says, I remember back in the early days, there were a lot of teachers online. Lauren, you made it sound simple. It gave me a great love that. And that's what it is. It all comes down to a wonderful, wonderful foundation. Do you have pixie songs on your side? I don't have any pixie signs. I do know who the Pixies are. I haven't done any of their music. I'll have to look into that. Great, great suggestion. You know, I've been trying to do some more modern music recently because I, you know, I'm a big fan of the 90s. I know most of the music on my channel is like, you know, the 60s and 70s and some of the 50s, but I've been trying to throw some 90s stuff. In the mix because I really like that stuff like the goo goo dolls, REM Guns N Roses, cool stuff from. From the 90s that are very guitar heavy. So maybe some pixie stuff will come into the mix. So. Yeah, will you do Morning Has Broken Soon? Morning has Broken. Who does that? I'm not sure. I don't know if I know the title of the song off the top of my head, but I probably know the song, have heard the song. So you're probably noticing if you're someone who follows my channel quite frequently, you'll notice I have a different guitar in the background today. And this was something I wanted to share with you. Now, I haven't spent a lot of time playing with it yet, but we'll take it off the wall for you guys. So this is a brand new guitar. Brand new. Cat Stevens did Morning. Okay, good. I love Cat Stevens stuff. I. I probably know the song and you can see I haven't even taken the tag off. I literally. They mailed this to me last week, so PRs Paul Reed Smith. I've never played one of their guitars. And they reached out to me and said, hey, Lauren, we really, we really like the tailor in your. In your YouTube videos. Would you consider playing a PRS? And I said, well, sure. It is so shiny. It's brand new. I know. I love PRS guitars. I. I have tons of students who have them. I asked that they have this in peacock blue. I asked them if I could have the peacock blue, but they didn't have any in stock. And I said, whatever you send me, I'm sure will be absolutely fine. I'd be honored to play it. But I always. Whenever I see PRS guitars, I think of them as works of art. I think they're absolutely beautiful guitars. So this one is the SE Hollow Body two, the piezo model. So it has. It actually has two pickups or two inputs. So you can see here. So one's a magnetic input and the other is the piezo input. And it's supposed to give you more acoustic guitar sound so you can plug it into an acoustic guitar amp. And I told them because I said, you know, on the channel, I don't usually play electric to too much, so I wanted something that stayed true to the acoustic nature of the channel. But also I really did want a hollow body guitar. I don't. I have the Gretsch, which is. Which is a chambered guitar. But it's, it's. It's not my favorite guitar to play because it's, it's a floating bridge. So the bridge can. If you hit that bridge, it easily goes out of tune. So I'm excited about this, that I actually have a really nice hollow body now. But this is the piezo model. So it's got, you know, a couple pickups. I haven't played too much with it yet, so I'll probably do a video on this guitar. I just haven't had time to sit with it myself. Yeah, you have the peacock blue one. Sheila. Oh, that. Absolutely beautiful. And the birds. I know. I love the bird inlays. I have a teacher at my music school and that's all he plays is prs. That's like his thing. Thing. And I. I told him, I was like, oh. I was like, what do you know about PRS guitars? And he was just like, what? So he was. He was all excited. So you'll probably see this again because I'd like to play around with it, get to know it a bit more. But I love, you know, it's just. It's a beautiful guitar. I love that it's nice and thin. I don't pick particularly like very thick electric guitars. And it's a hollow body, which means it's nice and light. Because the solid body electrics, like say a Les Paul, would they dig into my shoulder? They're too heavy. So I don't. I don't like really thick, solid body guitars. That's why my Ibanez is really, really thin. So I like the size of this. It's a little bit thicker than my Ibanez, but it's very, very comfortable to hold. And I'm sure, like I said, I'll be doing another video on it. I want to learn more about the guitar and the parts and the pickups. You know, I know this is like the master volume here. I think this is the P volume, so. Or maybe I mixed it up. But see, I want to make sure I know about the guitar before I bring it to you guys so that I can share it. But I just wanted to. To make note of this and I wanted to thank Paul Reed Smith for. For sending this my way. So I'm sure you'll be seeing more of it on the channel as I do some more stuff. Because it's, it's. It's a. It's a beautiful guitar. It's absolutely beautiful. I. I played through it once. It sounds lovely. I played it through a nice acoustic amp. So I want to get to know it more before I introduce her to you. So maybe you guys can come up with some names. I don't usually name my guitars, but maybe, maybe I'll allow you guys. Maybe we'll do a poll and I'll allow you guys to name the, the PRS guitar here. So there she is. Nice. Nice and beautiful. So thank you, Paul Reed Smith. Love it. We'll be doing another video with that very soon. Thank you, Sean. No, it was really nice to have a guitar company reach out to me and say, hey, we, we'd be interested in working with you. You know, I like that. That's really nice. I never ever thought that a guitar company would, would consider me. I mean, I get, I get a lot of things from like, you know, China where they're like, will you, will you promote our cheapo guitar? And I, I never, you know, it has to, it has to match me and my brand as a person. And, and prs. I have so many students who have PRS guitars and absolutely love them. They're absolutely beautiful. So I was excited when, when they offered to allow me to play one of their guitars. Awesome. Can I suggest a good beginner amp? Rick says.

So I have. For electric, I use a champion amp. I don't know if they make the champions anymore, but I'm sure there's something else that has taken the place of a champion amp. You don't need like a 60 watt amp. You could do like a 20 watt amp. Is nice. The Mustang amps, I don't know if they still make those, but a nice Fender practice amp is really good. This one, you don't need this. This is a dual channel Fender. I just got this, but they have, this is the acoustic Sonic. But they do have a single channel acoustic Sonic, which is for acoustic guitars. So that's a good kind of beginner amp too. The Fender Acoustic Sonic. If you're playing acoustic, that one's two channels. So I could plug in a microphone and a guitar. So. But you, you might not need that. I think I paid. I think Those are like 200 bucks for that type of amp. The amps that I really, really love, I love the Fishman loud boxes, which are really, really great amps. I use those when I performed live in bars. And again, the one I have is. It's a two channel amp, so you can plug a microphone and an acoustic guitar into it. So. So it's very nice, beautiful sounding amps. But those are the ones I, I would recommend. You know, with Fender, you can't, you can't go wrong. All right? And. And they're decently, decently priced Someone else says the Vox 20 watt is a great, the positive grid is a nice amp. Yeah, I have one of those positive grids. I don't particularly like it for electric. I think for acoustic, it's, it's really nice, but it's not my favorite for, for electric. I just felt like I couldn't get the sound and the tone out of it that I wanted to, but I know it's, it's cool. I, you know, I didn't use the app and stuff. I know there's an app so you can dial in with, with the music and get the sounds and the tones. Maybe I didn't just, maybe I didn't play around with it. Yeah. The Katana is also another one that I've heard a lot. I know Charlie Long, who's my friend who also YouTube channel here helps me out with electric guitar stuff. He uses the Katana and, and likes it a lot, so. Sounds great. Yeah. You named your guitar Black Sunshine? I love it. Yes. That is an S.C. peers. You do? Yeah. So this is, so this is the piezo model. So I know there's, there's a regular model, but this is the one with the piezo pickup, and I chose that one because it's supposed to mimic acoustic guitar a little bit better, which I wanted for this channel. If I'm going to play something that is an electric guitar, I want it to have as much of an acoustic sound as, as possible. My father has the regular one. I have the piezo. Okay, cool. Yeah. I know another student who has this same exact one. I actually messaged them because I was like, hey, I know you have this guitar. Do you like it? And she was like, I absolutely love it. Great guitar. So, so I can't wait to explore it more and share more of it with you all too. Yeah, I, I outputs is, is super cool. I didn't even know that there were two outputs when I first got it. I will admit. You know, one of my weaknesses is I'm not big on guitar tech, mainly because I play acoustic guitar. So it's cool. I, I, and that's why I said, I want to sit down. I want to learn about the guitar a bit before I tell you more about it and what I love about it and, but we'll get there when we get there. Hi, Lauren. Love your channel. From Liverpool. Oh, I was in Liverpool in May. I visited Liverpool when I went to England and I did my Beatles tour. So I got all the, all the Beetle stuff. That was like one of the big things I wanted to do in England was to go. To go to Liverpool. So. So, hello, Hello. Kevin has the Spark 40. So that's, you know, again, the spark is a. Is a great option. Those positive grid amps are great. The Fenders. So lots of good stuff. Again, if you stick with kind of the main brands, you can't. You can't really go. You can't really go wrong. So did you go to Abbey Road? I actually did not get to go to Abbey Road. That was one thing. Yeah, I did. I didn't get. But we'll be back. We'll be back. I didn't get to go to Abbey Road, but I saw Eleanor Rigby's grave. We did Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields, all that fun stuff. So really, really cool. They actually. The woman at the music hall. So where John and Paul met, there's a music hall, apparently, or a recreation hall across from, you know, where Eleanor Rigby's grave is. And. And the cleaning woman was outside, and she allowed us to go in because I guess usually during the day it's. The door is locked. But she was like, do you want to come in? And so we got to go in, and it was cool. So we got to see where. Where John and Paul met for the first time. You know, they had signage and stuff, so it was really cool. You know, I. I enjoyed it. I thought it was fun and exciting. Almost as fun and exciting as meeting Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. That was pretty cool. I like that. That was a huge surprise. And like I said, he was super, super nice guy. But I also want to emphasize what he said. If you just hopped on now emphasizing that he said he can't read music, and he does phenomenal stuff with the guitar. He's a phenomenal musician. And you might be like, well, Lauren, maybe he's just, you know, maybe he's just naturally talented. Maybe he is. But he just sounds like someone. And I've seen lots of interviews with Dave, and he's just like, just play it. Just play the guitar. Okay? Just. Just pick an instrument up and have fun with it. Because that's. That's the key. If you don't pick it up and you don't play it and you don't have fun with it and you don't explore it, then, you know, what are you gonna do with it? You just gotta have fun. You just gotta have fun. And he's like, you know, I'll just be playing on the guitar and I'll be tinkering, tinkering around, and you Know I'll play something and then that becomes monkey wrench and then I'll play something else and that becomes everlong. And so he's admitting too, he just kind of goofs around on the guitar and see what comes out. And I think that's an important thing. I know a lot of us, we get stuck on that perfectionism and trying to get everything to sound good and it's just not in the beginning. It's not gonna sound good in the beginning, but that's okay because I started that way too. I promise you. I am not naturally talented. No one in my family plays music. And that's why my seven level guitar system, that's why it's structured the way it is, because it's how I learned to play guitar and, and how I developed, you know, when I started teaching privately, it's what worked best for my students. You know, all this technical stuff, it's great, you know, and down the road you got to get into that technical stuff. But in the beginning you just gotta, you just gotta have fun and appreciate the instrument. I saw someone here made a comment about an old Mustang and I have to find it because I have the Camaro somewhere. Oh, right there. I have an old Mustang and a Marshall amp I use. Oh, nice. Very, very good. Yeah, I have, I have a 1968 Camaro in my garage. Actually, if you watch the intro video on my YouTube channel, if you watch the, the introductory video for this channel, you will see my Camaro in that video. We used it, we used it when we were at the music school. So that was, that was pretty cool. Ever hear of the Swedish band called First Aid Kit? I have not. I have not. Oh, you changed your strings for the first time few months ago. Stressful, but got it done. Hey, when you change those strings the first time, you just get to get through it. Understand that you're probably going to break a string. It's probably going to be the high E string or the B string. But don't worry, I still break strings. Sometimes if I'm not paying attention, I'll snap a string. And it's one of those things. It's very nerve wracking because you could poke yourself in there. I've actually poked the strings through my fingers. I've poked myself so many times in the fingers. And then you're bleeding, changing your guitar strings. But it's one of those things. It's nerve wracking, probably the first two or three times, but then you get into a groove and you kind of figure out a method for how you're going to do it and it just gets easier as you go. But those first few times are going to be a bit hairy. I remember the first time I changed the strings of my acoustic. I didn't know I didn't have anything to cut the strings with, so I wrapped them up and I had all this extra string at the top of my guitar. It looked. It looked ridiculous, but. And then I found out later you can use a wire cutter to cut the strings. So the first few times I changed my guitar strings was. Was pretty hairy as well. So if you're gonna do it, I recommend having one extra set of guitar strings just in case you break one. And this way if you do, you won't have to go back to the store and buy another set. So congratulations on that and selling and changing the strings of her send. That's awesome. Yes, guitar stores do sell single strings. So the ones I would recommend getting doubles of, G string, B string, E string, those are the three that are most likely to break. I don't know if I've ever broke the G string on tuning a guitar or, or changing strings, but I've definitely broke the B and E strings. But if you want to be safe, those three strings are the ones that break most likely when you are changing your guitar. So just a little tip on that one. On that one. So Richard says, I've learned loads of stuff on your free videos. Best I've seen. Thank you so much. Need to start the course now. Where do I start from? Newcastle. Yeah, Richard. So if you go to laurenbateman.com forward slash course. Laurenbatement.com forward slash course. That's going to be the seven level guitar system. So that's my beginner guitar system. And it starts, it's. It's for like absolute beginners all the way through. Kind of like the late beginner stage. Early intermediate. Probably more like late beginner. So because I get a lot of students are like Lauren, you know, I know my basic chords is the seven level for me. And you know, I say listen, go through it. If it's too easy, we can always upgrade you to the next level program. So I have a, a series of five courses that's centered around strumming, finger picking, some music theory. What else is it? Lead guitar. So learning your first scales and then there's one more. Did I say strumming already? Finger picking. Oh, Power and bar chord mastery. That's the other one. So it's five courses that I would consider not for Beginners not for absolute beginners. More people. Late beginner into the intermediate stage. Especially in that strumming course we go into some, some more intermediate stuff. So that is a good starting place. So if you're someone who's in that beginner stage, you can't really change your chords that quickly. You're still really frustrated and struggling. Seven level systems what I would recommend and that's laurenbateman.com forward slash course. And then if you're someone who's been at this a little bit while you feel like you get the basics of strumming, you've got the basics of chords. Then I would go for the next level and I think that's laurenbateman.com forward/next level. So you can either do forward slash course. Forward slash next level. But I did pin to the chat the courses page. So if you ever want to go check those out. I really love the strumming course. That's a good one as well that you can pick up. So that's really, really good. Someone said. Lori says I just changed mine too for the first time. Nervous. Took over an hour. Hey, but you got it done. There's no rush. There's no rush the first time that you, that you change your strings. Take your time because it can be a dangerous project. It really is. It's very nerve wracking the first time. So Sean says my bridge broke on my acoustic. No. So you carved a new one. And it's good as new. Is so much fun. Wow, that's so. That's impressive. I. I am not that handy. My dad is a carpenter so he can, he can do pretty much anything. I'm. I'm really not that handy. I got the music gene and I got like the sports gene. You know, I played soccer, I played basketball, softball. I even did rugby. I did rugby in college. Not a lot of people know that. I did rugby, I did boxing, I did martial arts. So I got like the athletic gene. I didn't really get the handy dandy. I mean I can, I can hang a picture on a wall. But like my dad could build a house. I can't do that stuff. So I always have a lot of appreciation and respect for people who, who are very handy and good with handiwork. So. So that's awesome. Super cool that you made your own bridge or. I have students all the time who they build their own guitars. They get those electric guitar. Build your own guitar kits. That's really cool too. So that's. I think that's impressive. I'VE never done that. I've never built a guitar before. If you've built a guitar before, put it in the chat because I, I love those things. I've had a few students in our private community, people, we have like a guitar and gear section where people talk about stuff they've done and we see people post pictures of these guitars that they built and it's, it's super, super cool. And if you get the seven level guitar system, you do get access to that community. I think it's, I think it's three months access to the community and we do live Q&As and other stuff. I'm popping in there. Like I said, I'm a little busy this month. I haven't been as active because I have the live event. My live event is next weekend. So next weekend I'm going to be at the Hilton in Woburn and we have a ballroom rented out and we're going to be rocking and rolling, playing guitar, sold out guitar events. I'm super excited for that. But I wanted to pop on and say hello because I haven't been posting a lot of lesson content because we're kind of taking some time off this month so I can really focus on the live event because I don't want to get myself too exhausted because if I get too exhausted then I get sick and then I, I can't make any content. But we have some good stuff lined up towards the end of the month and into September we're going to be getting some new songs out there for you. So we'll definitely keep working on that. So definitely go to the website laurenbateman.com you can check out all the songs we have there. And if you want to submit a request for a song, when you go to the contact form, I think there's a link that you can go and put a request in for a song. If we don't have it on the channel yet, I just let people know we took it. I get a lot of requests so I obviously can't get to all of them, but I do look at them and if it's a song that intrigues me, like someone mentioned a Cat Stevens song and I'm like, oh, I might. I like Cat Stevens. So it's something that like gets me excited too. It's, it's more likely that I will do it. Or if it's a song that I think is really great for beginners and would be a great addition to my beginner song guitar since I mostly work with, you know, Beginner, late beginner, early intermediate. That's kind of what. That's kind of what I focus on. So if you have some great stuff, you can feel free to recommend that over on the website. And again, you know, if you want to support the channel, support what I'm doing here. Definitely go. Laurenbatement.com forward/courses. Go grab a course. It could be the finger picking course. It could be the power and bar chord course. My favorite, just so you know, I always tell people my favorite is the strumming course, but I'm a rhythm guitar person, so I'm slightly biased. And I do have a singing course now. I didn't really promote it too much, but I. I do have a singing course out now that teaches you a little bit about. About singing so that you can get your voice into shape. Because that's a lot of people. A lot of my students, they want to strum the guitar and sing. So I now have a singing 101 course. It's just the basics of getting your voice into shape so that you can sing and play your guitar at the same time. Always stuff, fun stuff. The Red Clay strays have not heard of that. Who's my favorite Ninja Turtle? This one right down here. So this is Michelangelo. Michelangelo is always my favorite turtle. And I can tell you a funny story about when I was a kid, when the Ninja Turtles first started. Yes, Tiffany, definitely go check out the singing course. It's. It's a really good one. I liked it. I had fun making it. So when I was a kid, I had these. These little stickers, and you could color the stickers in. You had, like, little markers. And I think I was like 5 or 6 years old. I was only in kindergarten or first grade because that's, you know, when the Ninja Turtles were big and like, kind of like the late 80s. And I'm sitting there, and I'm sitting at the kitchen table and I'm coloring. My mom's making dinner. And I said, oh, I'm gonna make this one look like Michelangelo. And my mom was like, oh, my God. She was so impressed. She's like, oh, my God, I can't believe in kindergarten that they're teaching you about the Renaissance painters. And my sister. So my sister's three and a half years older than me. She goes, no, mom. She's coloring it like the Ninja Turtles. My mom was like, what is a ninja Turtle?

So, yes, Michelangelo is my favorite ninja Turtle. I don't know why. I think because he was just the fun one. And I like to have fun. But when you play the video game, when you used to play the video game in the arcade, you wanted to play Donatello because his weapon had the furthest reach. So, yeah, isn't that a funny story? When you think of my mom, and my mom's going to be at the event next weekend, and my students love that because they always get these funny stories out of my mom. She likes to. She likes to embarrass me and share all my fun stories from me. Growing up, like the time I thought I was Wonder Woman when I was young, for trick or treat one year, I was Wonder Woman. I love Wonder Woman. And I had, you know, the suit. It was like a jumpsuit, and I had the cape and everything. And my mom was in the kitchen, and we lived on a two. You know, we had a second story with a. With a banister. And I thought I could fly. So you could imagine where this story is going to be going. So my mom is on the phone in the kitchen. So the kitchen's at the bottom of the stairs, so there's like a hallway. And then the kitchen's connected. So my mom's on the phone, and all of a sudden she just sees me just land on the floor, on the tile floor outside the kitchen. And my mom's like, I have to go. I think my daughter just fell from the second story. And I come out there, and of course I'm crying. And my mom goes, what are you doing? And I said, I thought I could fly because I was Wonder Woman. I thought I could fly. And she goes, you could have asked me. I would have told you you couldn't fly. So fortunately, I didn't get hurt. I didn't break any bones. But that was me growing up. So that's why, I guess I like Michelangelo. I was very carefree, energetic, like to have fun. And that resonated with me. So, yes, it was. It was. Ouch. I don't remember much because I was very young. I think I was like four. So I don't remember much about it. But yeah, I've done some. Some stupid things growing up and. But I still love my superheroes. I don't think I can fly anymore. So that's great. But if you're coming to the event next week, I'm looking forward to seeing you. Go support the channel 7 level guitar system. Go check out the courses on laurenbateman.com. appreciate you all. I'll see you in a lesson video real soon. Have a lovely evening. Morning, wherever you are. Thank you so much for your support. Appreciate you all.

You have a guitar named Wonder Woman. Love it. Awesome.