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Learning any new skill can be frustrating. I am working my way through the 30 days to play myself, and about 20 days in, and I can say with certainty I won’t finish it in 30 days in spite of probably playing/practicing 1- 2 hours a day every day (not all at one sitting, 10-20 minutes generally several times a day, and occasionally will just lose myself and have a 30 minute to hour long session.
Right now I am frustrated with my chord transition speed, particularly into and out of C, weeks now of work and I see small improvements but my transitions are still far too slow to play anything and have it actually sound like what I hear in my mind. around 30-35BPM to get a consistently good chord when into or out of C… Using a metronome, doing the 1 minute drills, etc.. but still slow and frustrating at times… especially once you mess up… get a good rhythm, and then FWANG… fingers go down in complete wrong positions, then start thinking way too much about everything, and everything falls apart because I then overthink every move and slow down even further and make even more mistakes, rather than trusting myself.
I am old enough to know, I just have to put in the time, though I have certainly put in more time for this, than anything else I have tried in a long long time, and progress is slow. I tend to want to run before I can walk, so have to fight my instincts on this constantly… Want to play something and have it sound reasonably correct… but just not there yet.
Don’t give up, you’ll get there.