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@That_Guy What an awesome thread. I’m not sure I have a good answer as to what I wished I’d been told at the beginning. I guess I’m surprised after all this time, and I still feel like such a beginner, albeit an advanced beginner. So, I guess I would have liked to have known that I would just be moving into more intermediate music at 3 years of playing, and that would be okay. I would have liked permission from the beginning to be just subpar and a very slow learner. I felt there was a need to be much further along or with more skills than I had at the time; Instead of feeling like a failure because I wasn’t able to play music right away, or learn the lessons and meet the speeds posted, or where others that started TAC around the same time or after me blew right past me. Overall, I wish I had been told (& believed) that I was always right where I was supposed to be, and that if I was doing the lessons and trying, then I was a musician and guitarist. Today I can say that overall, I’m happy where I am in my journey. The guitar is a difficult instrument to learn that does not come easily to me, but it brings such joy to me when I can play something, and that is what this is all about.
I’m not sure I’ve answered the question sufficiently, but I’ll think a little more on this and get back with you