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Hi Peter I felt the exact same way when I started in October. Here’s my newbie take on thing, someone else correct me if I’m wrong. The first 30 day challenge is to get you to come in for 30 straight days. Or as close to it as you can. I don’t believe it is designed to get you to play. It’s designed to get you into the habit of wanting to pick up the guitar. I think of it as the honeymoon stage. You date your guitar for thirty days each day that you spend 10 minutes stepping towards what Tony presents is a Win. Collect wins. It’s about learning how to learn. Then the 5 daily challenges is the grace period. Tony shows you something and I try, best as I can to duplicate what he’s saying. (Usually on the slowest speed.) But that’s okay it’s not a race and it’s not my day job. (Thank God). Here’s the thing, my fingers are getting the desired callouses, my time playing the challenges of the day is getting longer. And as a bonus, If I’m not frustrating the crap out of myself I may actually start to see that I’m making progress. So if I can you can too. Stay with us. He’s a madman but I really like Tony’s process. My biggest difficulty is slowing down what I thing I should be learning and just enjoying the process. (That’s my story anyway, but I never wanted to play Cargnegie Hall anyway.) Good Luck.