Every forum I go on there seems to be one of these threads, I though why not here? It helps everyone to feel familliar with each other.
Don't feel pressured into it though.

Anyway, I'm Ty, (pronounced, "tie". Some people think it's "Tee Why" because of the net lingo for "Thank-You" - it's not.) I use the hyphens 'cause the system wouldn't recognise a two-character name.
My real name however is Peter. I'm a 20 year-old New Zealander and do Law and Political Science at Victoria University of Wellington. I've been playing guitar for six years and mainly play my Maton Em325c and love it.

I frequent a couple of other forums, one of which is my friend's one, another is Bf2s.com where I am a staff member and the last I frequent is the Shihad, (my favourite bogan rock band,) forum. I'm Ty there too.

(Counting down to when someone writes "I'm X and I'm an alcoholic...")

This post was last modified: 04-01-2008 01:08 AM by -Ty-.

Hey,

I'm Riley.. and I'm 15 years old.

I have played guitar for a little over 2 yaers

I play instrumental acoustic.

My main influences are Andy McKee, Antoine Dufour, and Craig D'Andrea.

This post was last modified: 01-05-2009 11:03 AM by Riley.

Howdy!

My name is Stevie Bell, I'm 24 years old and hail from Glasgow, Scotland!

I've been playing guitar for almost eleven years now and currently blast out some chunky riffs and bluesy solos with old school metal titans Attica Rage.

Metal may be my passion, but classic rock was my first love and for the past few years all I've listened to is acoustic and instrumental stuff.

That's about it

I'm Jeff Titus. I have a bio on my site harpsympitar.com that can fill you in on the details of my life, but a summary related to guitar would be 30+ years playing. I am very fortunate to play on stage and record with Michael Manring (we are playing a few shows this summer and he appears on Just A Position on Wood Dragon). I sometimes "TA" at Alex de Grassi's Summer Guitar Workshop (highly recommended for intermediate players!) where I tend to show students how to play tap notes on acoustic and some other percussive techniques... plus I eat all the good food that Alex's wife Alison makes.

I am a huge fan of Michael Hedges and have worked very hard to establish my own "style", mostly through composition, although extended techniques are an important part of that palette. When Michael died in a car crash in '97 it inspired me to have Fred Carlson (beyondthetrees.com) create the Oracle Harp Sympitar you see in my profile pic in dedication to Michael's memory.

Andy and I met at the annual Harp Guitar Gathering where I was a speaker/performer. He's pretty much one of the nicest people around, as you all can see from his responses here on the forum.

I like to help others in any way I can and I have found that there is ALWAYS something new to learn about guitar playing. Music is the most obvious example that magic is possible for us all.

Thanks to everyone that participates on Andy's forum! Thanks to Andy for creating this and for promoting acoustic guitar in general.

This post was last modified: 03-30-2008 10:08 AM by jefftitus.

hi, im alex and im 21 years old. I am currently a student at the university of toronto. I've been playing guitar for 6 years now, and have been listening to don ross, and andy mckee for about 3 years now, good to see that they have gained a lot of internet success recently.

Hey guys, I'm Mike, and I'm a 16 year old student from Burlington, Ontario. I've been playing piano since I was a wee lad of 6, but in January '06 I heard Don Ross play his tune "Wave From your Window" on "Gzowski in Conversation" and my musical horizons completely changed. I've been playing guitar for about a year and a half now, having launched myself into the realm of fingerstyle guitar. I'm certified in Grade II theory rudiments with the royal conservatory system, but I recently realized that I've got to have this stuff down so cold, I've got to speak it like English, so I'm pushing my face right into the grindstone regarding music theory. Compositionally, I'm in a rut. I can't seem to produce anything that I'm happy with at all, so I've chalked it all up to not being technically proficient, theoretically well versed, and not sitting and straight up listening to different musical genres. So I'm on hiatus as far as songwriting goes, until I know what I'm doing.

Other things I enjoy include Theatre, Video Games, The Colbert Report, Hand Whistling, Wikipedia and Improvisational comedy.

This one seems to be the only forum I frequent, really. I guess it's nice to just be a part of a community where everyone is intelligent, helpful and respectful.

This post was last modified: 03-30-2008 04:56 PM by KDMAnderson.

Hi I'm Daniel and I'm an alcohol (You got to 6 TY...(I didn't even write out alcoholic, I really am an alcoholic))

I enjoy longs walks on the beach and cracking really lame jokes as often as possible.

Anywho, I am Daniel, been playing guitar since I was 13, now 16. Basically fell in love with acoustic music when my grandparents took me to a tommy emmanuel gig many years ago. Unfortunately I didn't really understand what was going on and I havn't seen him since

I am trying to start writing some pieces but, you all know how ludicrously hard it is to write something your happy with. Unless your an alien like Andy (Because he has a hovercar) or a robot like Don Ross... (Topical humour YES!)

Peace and good playing.
P.S. I would love to see you play some time Jeff, harp guitars are always really enjoyable. Hurry up and come to Australia! Then message me!!

This post was last modified: 03-30-2008 05:14 PM by Dedey.

Hi,

I'm Omer. I'm living in Turkey. My guitar career began when I was 12 and now I'm 23. I have a Takamine, Ovation acoustics and also a Gibson Les Paul and Epiphone Les Paul.

When I was in high school I had been playing guitar 6 or more hours in a day but after enter university unfortunately it decreased a lot. Now I'm looking for something to motivate myself to began playing guitar again. By the way, I found Andy on Youtube while I was searching for a finger style guitarist and when I heard Andy, I realized that he is the best.

Best wishes to all

Hi all,

Im Mark,Im 27 years old, Im from Plymouth, Devon, UK.

Ive been playing guitar now for nearly 12 years, Guitar wise i own a martin custom auditorium, baby taylor, musicman super axis sport, Clapton signature, epiphone firebird, Epihone custom shop Les Paul, Tele '72 reissue Deluxe, Cort 5 string bass, Cuenco Electro-Classical guitar.

I love guitars and ive worked and saved very hard to own the guitars i have, all for the love of music.

I play and produce in a few bands around the city of plymouth, and have the pleasure of working with lots of talented people and have my own make shift studio in my flat where i record, have a myspace where i put some of music check it out if you have time and my top friends too

Ive been listening to andys music since around the end of summer 07, and saw him in november and had the chance to meet him. What a lovely guy, a true pleasure to meet and chat. His music has totally changed the way i look at music and guitar playing in general. Words cant express....

Looking forward to watching him in May in bristol, Anyone else going to the show on the 10th?

Peace

This post was last modified: 03-31-2008 08:44 AM by LowC.

Hi, I'm Chad and I am an Andy-o-holic.

I am 32 and just started learning how to play and I suck.

I live in West Virginia.

Thats me in a nutshell.