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“I just don’t know what to do I want to get better but it doesn’t seem
like I am getting better. My timing is off my cord changing it sucks.”In my opinion, you won’t get much better until you change your mental messaging. You’re at the critical point where most people give up. The best single piece of advice any of my teachers gave me was, you need to be OK sucking and still have fun. Even Tommy Emmanuel espouses this. You’re new to this. Your timing will suck, your chord changes will be slow and cluncky and so on. Really try to be OK with this and accept it. Have fun with it, laugh at it when you screw up instead of beating yourself up. THIS single piece of advice will help more than anything. It will make you want to pick up your guitar and learn with vigor instead of not wanting to pick up your guitar because you may be off on your timing, or miss a chord change etc.
I know this sounds easy put in words, it is more difficult to put into practice, especially if you’re like me, and have the need to be perfect at everything. Most activities in life have come pretty natural and easy for me. Not this dang guitar. But I keep plugging away everyday, and having an absolute blast. And I totally suck.