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Thank you, Claudia, and thank you to everyone who has responded. I’m also taking a loooong time to work through the 30 Days to Play. I’ve also gotten discouraged — I had to laugh at the “hide behind the blues shuffle” — Ha! Me too!
One thing that has been helping me is to not focus on completely, totally, fully nailing a lesson. Obviously, I’d like to do that, but in reality, when I keep pushing myself to really nail it, I tend to take a loooooong time and many, many sessions working on it, which then leads to me feeling discouraged and feeling like I’m making zero progress.
For example, that dang Blues Boogie has been totally confounding me! I finally moved on to chords , which have been making a lot more sense to me right now. I do go back and give it a go each session (and often will practice other prior lessons that I feel I need review on ), but then I move on to a new lesson. I know I really do want and need to learn the skills that I’m having trouble with, but getting bogged down on NOT figuring something out is so discouraging.
I’m also searching for some EASY strumming songs just to keep myself motivated. Please do share what you play & I will with you. 🙂