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As a keen guitar player and tutor I cannot imagine my life without music. It is my own personal world through which I can immerse myself in a way only someone having a similar appreciation of music would understand. There is very little I do without some kind of music playing and the ability to recognise chord progressions, harmonies along with the different styles enhance the listening experience beyond words. For me it is sometimes amazing that when I comment on a particularly clever or brilliantly played instrument buried within an orchestra many people look at me with a blank face and ask "what flute" or "What French horn"? To me it is like walking into a mountain and then asking "What Mountain"?

From a young age I grew up with music by the masters such as Chopin, Beethoven and Mozart. These musical geniuses formed a solid foundation upon which the world began to open up before my ears, and of course being lucky enough to be a child of the sixties I have the benefits of so many other legends in the industry. Supergroups, the likes of which the world rarely encounters today seemed to roar onto the stage every other week. One by one they evolved through original sounds and unique compositions and the world was treated to The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, T-Rex and onwards forever.

During the 1970's music exploited the electronic age where many of the experimental instruments involving manipulation of sound frequency became commonplace. Synthesisers began to join the standard line up of band instrumentation and arrangements; again the world trembled beneath the roaring sounds of space age music. Nothing in human history could have predicted the ease at which sound can be now manipulated into coherent and structured instrumental music. This literally drove me into wanting to create for myself and with little money and no piano the only solution was to learn guitar.

By the eighties I was playing socially and enjoying the fact that my dreams of playing what I want precisely how I want had come to fruition but then marriage, a young family and career took over. I never stopped enjoying music and did nothing without having my favourites on-hand at all times but the guitar sadly gathered dust in a forgotten corner. It was not looking good until one day out of the blue my wife turned up with a brand new guitar as a gift. This one gesture turned my entire life around as I revised my old songs and fast came back up to speed. Then my daughter became

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