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You seem to be progressing faster than I in these early stages. I love the recognition of being capable of playing the first ling or the first measure. There were days for me when I joined when the best I could do was that 10min. struggle session with the daily of the day (10 min) and then I would go back and play the Monday warm up challenge until somebody would throw something at me….(lots of repetition for me to learn).
I will also say that it took me a long time before I was confident that Tony’s program would work for me. I continued to practice self instruction to my own detriment. I had a light bulb moment when I realized I am paying for this teacher I may want to do it the way he is suggesting. It was then that I put my head down and just did the lessons as they came, that was my first priority. After that I would usually work on songs I wanted to learn. Once I figured out how scales and chords where the same thing just different intervals and the nature of how music is built around tonic centers followed by triads followed by pentatonic scales followed by octave scales followed by subdivisions of tonal half’s and thirds and that a fretboard is circular not linear my world changed. It took me longer than most. My long learning times were related to stubbornness, I am sure of it. If I were to do it again, I would really drill the daily challenges and work less on learning how to play songs. The learning of songs may have been also what slowed my progress. Truley the songs I wanted to play…I was not physically capable of playing. There is a benefit though, I did remain engaged and connected and strung together 400 days and change on my longest streak. That benefit is noteworthy and must be acknowledged. I put that description of when my playing world began to change to illustrate a point. When I started I had no idea at all the points of information that I needed to know were so many in order to play the way that I wanted. Now that I know them, I am glad there are so many as it makes the experience all the richer. Also when I started I would not have been able to understand what that was talking about. If you don’t, no worries, keep hanging around and you will. I will make sure you do if that is where you want to go on this journey, as long as you are around (and I am too).
Learning guitar is harder than eating an elephant. Where do you want to start eating. Does it really matter or is it important to just eat because the whole thing needs to be digested. That is my after the fact macro view. I would have hated hearing that at the start though, even if it was true for me. I had many many people lend their knowledge and experience because they loved music. I would not have made it without them. Found them here on TAC!