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Hi Stilltrying,

First, welcome to this amazing community and I see you’ve received the advice from of the most knowledgeable TAC members here. I will say “heed their wisdom”.

Second, I equate playing guitar to earning a “black belt” and I will say that seven weeks is not enough time and you will be doing yourself a disservice if you quit now. It does get frustrating and you will get bored. But right now you are in the process for creating the necessary brain neural networks, calluses in your fingers, and the hand/eye/finger muscle memory required to move forward. That takes time.

In other words, you’re going to suck at this for awhile. And that is okay….honor it – you are a “White belt”. White belts will not play like Neil Young, George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix or any of the great guitar artists out there. And reading their stories, you’ll find that they sucked at it too in the beginning. But eventually one day as Lorraine mentioned, “a miracle” will happen. It will be subtle like playing the chords cleanly, or you get the rhythm right with the tempo, or you memorized the TAB and can play it. Whatever, then you know you moved up to maybe a “yellow” belt”. And the process will repeat itself again to move up to the next rank.

So, become the “Black Belt” and I do hope you do stick with it. This is a great program and can open up so many guitar playing doors for you. All the best!

• This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by  TerriG.