I would like to add my testimony to the board since I've blessed it with enough questions thus far.
My story goes back to 1998 when a friend actually gave me a right handed american standard fender strat. To this day I'll never know why as Ive lost touch with them. I'm left handed so I had to restring and change the intonation at the local shop. For a few years I got better and better with intuition and drive to rock out. It wasn't until 2000 that I started to play with other people and realized I was missing a LOT of the whole picture as for playing music. 
I don't remember the whole process but I did see you guys in the back of guitar world. Next thing I know I'm begging my parents to get the course on then VHS for me as a xmas gift. Sure enough it was mine and I was the happiest 18yr old in town!
Jumping ahead to the future years passed and I lost touch with the guitar a bit as friends moved on, had kids, got jobs. I never did finish the course and achieve the maximum playing ability I had dreamed of. Instead I joined the army in 2003 and wouldn't you know I found myself in Iraq.
Few years later I yet again found myself over in Iraq again...this time I knew what I was getting into. I bought the cheapest guitar online and had it sent out there. Getting my chops again was a great fill for time. Upon returning home this past summer in '09 I wiped the dust off the les paul and marshal half stack I got after the first tour in Iraq with saved money from my stint in hell. This time however my return home brought me with an injury to the back from being a gunner on a humvee. Many missions on the road and a few conflicts left me with a herniated disc. Surgery was needed so recovery time has left me with LOTS of time to ponder life.
Dealing with the transition of life from a torn world left me battling with depression to say the least. I knew that music was the best healer. I needed structure and guiding light. I looked no further than the old metal method course that did me so well before. Sure enough you guys were still around and with the access of dvd to make it that much better.
A few months into the course for a second time and I'm light years ahead of where I was. Its flowing through me naturally as I always knew it would. I owe my ultimate gratitude for your guys course and ability to lay it down for some one in my state to unfold the power within. After battling depression and pain this has been the best therapy all around!
Thank you for your visions lighting my dark world,
Josh
