Hey there, LikinRefers! Thank you very much for watching this video. I'm making this video because it's a very special occasion. LikinRef turned 8 this week. Yep, it's been 8 full years of LikinRef and we're starting the 9th year so I decided I'm gonna open up about a subject that is a little bit difficult for me to talk about. But first, I just want to mention that next week as a celebration lesson, I'm gonna upload a full arrangement lesson for November Rain. I've been busting my hump for that lesson and I wanted to have it ready in time for LikinRefers birthday so 8 years celebration, anniversary lesson November Rain next week. So, enough for a question, I'm gonna talk about the subject that I... it's just uncomfortable for me to talk about. LikinRefers is called LikinRef Free Guitar Education for a reason. I've made you a promise all the way through that everything is gonna be free and remain free on LikinRef. And you keep writing me emails telling me how much you appreciate the fact that I'm not putting up a paywall and that I'm still giving the tabs for free. That's because I made you a promise, I'm not gonna put up a paywall, I'm not gonna make exclusive content only for people who support LikinRef. But, I do want to double the lessons, I want to double the amount of lessons, I want to make two or even three lessons per week, it's possible. I have the material there's a lot more material where LikinRef lessons come from. Every lesson I make pops up three more ideas in my head, but I don't have the time and the mental energy to do it and I'm gonna explain why in a second. And all I can do is ask for your support and Patreon to enable me to free up my mental energy and time to make more lessons. And I don't know if you've noticed, but this year I have doubled the arrangement lessons. I wanted to make more arrangement lessons and I was able to free up time to double the arrangement lessons from one arrangement lesson per month to one every couple of weeks. So we have succeeded in doing that thanks to the course sales and private commissions and the little Patreon support that I have. But the problem with course sales and private arrangement orders is that I have no way of doing it, of knowing when those will come up. I have no way of knowing when someone will purchase a course or commission a private lesson for inscription arrangement. And that's the mental energy thing because it's a little bit of a stressful life this way because you don't know where your income is gonna come from. And I'm trying to keep LikinRef ethical. I refuse a lot of sponsorship offers and a lot of affiliate marketing offers because that's not who I am, that's not what I wanna do. And I only only promote stuff that I do truly believe in. So I don't know, I might be naive, but I don't wanna think about LikinRef as a business. I wanna think about LikinRef as a creative endeavor, a mutual endeavor for creative living and maximizing everyone's potential for guitar creativity. I don't know, call me naive, but that's just the way I wanna see things. I don't wanna be called, I don't wanna think of myself as a businessman, I wanna think of myself as a source of inspiration. That's the whole truth. So I'm asking for your help to support me on Patreon, to go and support, give whatever you're able to give. And then grateful for any donation you choose to make. You can go to LikinRef and make a one time donation. Everything will go to that goal, towards that goal of doubling the LikinRef weekly lessons. And we can do it, we can do it because I have the material, we have the technology, and hopefully I have your support. So I love you all, and I'll see you next week with the November Rain arrangement lesson. Thank you very, very much for eight wonderful years, and I can guarantee on my end of our bargain that I'm gonna continue doing my absolute best to teach you guitar, also in its ninth year. Thank you very much for watching, bye for now, enjoy.