Around 10 years ago I gave the 13 year old son of a friend a go on my cheap acoustic....... showed him  about 3 chords ( every thing I knew basically lol) and he sat there quite happily for an hour bashing away at it...... jump to present day he's just released this....

Why he looks like that man from The pirates of Caribean?? :D Will listen to this tomorrow, 18 minutes is rather long song.

its 4 songs......war cry is pretty good.

You should ask him to repay the favour and give you a lesson :D

This doesn't sound bad at all - ask for the tabs and create a rocksmith custom of it ;)

great 'origin story' for a great musician, thanks to you!

 

first thought when i saw his picture:   mascara running down the cheeks of a sobbing college sorority girl after getting dumped by guitar-playing boyfriend

Nice, this is an example of what self conviction can achieve. Playing guitar is an art that few can really understand.It´s an art that´s very difficult but not impossible. It´s about effort and visualization.You can have the best rated guitar,one of the best guitar players as a teacher and one of the best learning tools if there´s any out there, but if you aren´t convinced at all of the sacrifice and will you have to put in it, then you are nothing but fooling yourself.Hail the gods of music for music and human sake!