When I recorded my first guitar tutorial for release on Youtube, I was already a seasoned free-lance guitar player, mostly playing the electric guitar. However, while the electric guitar would pay the bills, the acoustic guitar was where the heart was, practicing long hours just to be able to play a certain tune for myself..
It took the Covid pandemic of 2020 to wipe out the whole freelance workspace before I would make a first dedicated move into making long form tutorial videos , focusing mostly on technically demanding and intricate fingerstyle arrangements . Despite the niche nature of the content, I passed 30k subscribers on Youtube and 1k paying followers on Patreon only two years later. And I couldn’t be happier about it! This website is the next step in the journey..
Please meet my wife, Sielke! She recently joined the business, combining it with her job as foster care counselor. She will take most of the admin work out of my hands, leaving me with more time to focus on transcribing songs and making videos… if that time isn’t spent chasing our two toddlers around the house, that is..
She will be your first line of contact when dealing with general issues, like payments, access problems or anything else along those lines. Aside from the website she also takes care of the accounting, and she is the in-house “chief social media manager”. She made that title up and there is little I can do about it, since she can post whatever she wants on all my socials..
To Gennadii Armashula, for giving me the push and guidance I needed to start my own website.
To Anna Ovchynnikova, for having the patience and skills to turn my vague and inexperienced desciptions into a proper and functional design.
To Joachim, Luc and everyone at Ozalith for breathing life into that first design.
