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@Rob503 I completely understand your frustration. I didn’t have any play it skills whatsoever when I started on this journey. I became frustrated about the same time as you. I almost gave up. I began simply admitting that guitar is a difficult instrument to play, but it’s possible. I had to quit comparing myself to others. I was further along than when I began, and I started small by posting my small wins, and I said I was going to post my journey online – the good, the bad, and the ugly.

In the beginning, everything seems difficult and impossible, but if you do th minim of 10 minutes daily, you will progress – happens sometimes quickly and other times slow. Think back to when to began until now. Have you gotten better?

Learning an instrument takes time and perseverance but it is possible. Keep trying. Don’t stress about effecting a skill. You’ll be introduced to them multiple times, and you’ll notice each time you’re a little better and better.

Consider supplementing with guitar lessons,. I did this after a year of TAC, and I was lucky I found a teacher that wasn’t threatened by me doing the lessons on TAC, and he said I was further along than some of his,students with a few years of lessons. If you’d like a reference to him, let me know. He does virtual lessons.

The biggest thing is to be kind to yourself, try and still have some fun. Find a song with 2 chords that is easy and begin with them. Just google easy 2 chord songs. Take the skills/scale learned during the week and based on the key of the scale (Tony typically tells you this, search for the letter of the key and type in major or minor backing track in that key. Then just goof around playing different parts of the scale to different backing tracks. Take the Gretboard Wizard course. It opens up the fretboard to you.

I was one of the slowest learners ever, and the guitar has not come easy to me, but I had wanted to play since I was young. I’m not great even today, but I can play upwards of a hundred songs. I hit a period where all of a sudden things just clicked, and I started playing and playing and playing and having so much fun. I still hit,plateaus,and rough spells, but I know they’re temporary. Don’t leave before the miracle happensr.