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So after all my yammering in this (great) thread- (my apologies BTW)- I guess it’s time I actually threw in my answer to Brandon’s original question- “When did you finally feel like you could play guitar?“…. (took me a while to actually think this out)….
For me, I think it was when I had completed Fretboard Wizard- (three times thru now)- and then also went thru two (separate/annual) “Fretboard Fluency” courses in a different-but-closely-related-website-group from TAC.
Right around that time, I felt I had enough knowledge to learn the art of tinkering with the music itself. Counter to what I had always thought……. I had to go the “knowledge-first/ then playing-second” route, rather than the other way around. I didn’t have the advantage of “growing-up around it” and being the 8-year-old kid on the front porch (who could play anything just about anything….. naturally).
Funny– “finally feeling like I could play guitar” may actually have involved more learning than actually playing! But, the two work hand in hand…. they need each other…
I’ll leave you all alone now in this (again, great) thread.