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I'd have to have friends and the ability to socialise to do that also frustratingly I can't drive which limits my location options a bit. This is something that makes me want to find people I can play with, support, encouragement, and some accountability to keep practising when I want to give up. I think that is something that would really help me. This gives me pause for thought. I do have a few physical restrictions that I've taken into account, but keep thinking I might be able to overcome to a degree. I've never really thought about not trying to play in every style. I kinda felt that in order to be good and happy with what I can do, I'd have to be good at every style and know all techniques, etc and not just a few. @Dad3353 I'm having weekly lessons and he is a good tutor, teaches in schools, which probably helps him deal with me as I have the intelligence of a small child. He has played professionally in the past. The last two lessons I've bought up that I'm getting worse and struggling more and he had noticed so we went through some different bands that I like to find songs that I may enjoy learning and I was given the tab for them to practice. I've also download yousician in the hope it will give me a bit more structure to my practice. Thank you for the help and for taking the time to read through my post. I really do appreciate it.

Thank you. I started lessons just over a year ago and feel like I've just had to begin all over again. This is hard! I'm getting so frustrated with myself! What would you see as an achievable goal for a beginner, and what sort of time scale to do it in? Please don't say wonderwall. Even with simple slow songs I can't keep up and it all sounds so fragmented and disjointed. I'm practicing little and often but I'm definitely loosing motivation again. I know the worst thing to do is compare yourself to others but every beginners guitar group on fb I see posts like 'oh I've been playing for 3 months now and here's a little song I've been practicing', and then they proceed to play the piece perfectly. I can't find any in person or online live practice groups for beginners that are completely shite like me, which is a shame as I think that would help me. Noooo I can't wait that long!! I just want to be good at something!

Lately, despite practicing more, I've gotten much worse at playing. I'm getting finger placements wrong, missing strings, can't keep time etc. It feels like I'm starting from the beginning again. I'm still having regular lessons and I've downloaded an app which has only highlighted the little to no progress I've been making. Does anyone have any ideas as to where I've gone wrong? Any advice or links to resources I could try to get me back on track would be really appreciated.

Thank you. I think my expectations were a little unrealistic, it just feels like the people I watch on fb pages and YouTube are progressing so much faster than me and that's knocked my confidence a lot. Tempted to find someone I can pay to stand behind me and hit me around the back of the head whenever I start losing concentration and motivation!

I definitely think practicing in smaller chunks is a good idea. I tend to do an hour a day and then feel bored and frustrated when I still sounds crap and all I've done is end up with sore fingers. This is really helpful, I'm focused a lot on being able to play a song that I'm not really working at getting clean sounding chords so practice will never make perfect if I'm practicing so poorly. I need to slow down to baby steps. Thank you for the help

Hello, thanks for responding 1: I do have a tutor, 1 hour a week but I'm also using YouTube. 2: Age 37, my memory isn't great but I don't think I'm quite at the point of age related memory loss. At least I hope I'm not. 3: Not sure how fast I thought it would be. I'm not the quickest learner with anything but I was hoping to remember more than a few basic chords by now. Playing like Hendrix by the end of the year might be asking too much, but I was hoping to have learnt a few songs that I can play clearly and in time and without needing to keep stopping to look at tab. I'm forgetting all chords after the major and minor ones (I'm ignoring barre chords for the time being) misplacing finger placement, hitting strings that should be missed and if I can badly strum my way through a song on one day, the next I haven't a clue and I'm back to relearning it.

Hello all, I'm pretty new to learning the guitar, about 6 months in, but I did have a previous attempt a few years back which stopped because my progress was so very very slow that I became disheartened and I lost all motivation to continue. Slightly worried the same thing is happening again as I’m just not retaining the information. I remember something one day and by the next its gone, which is really frustrating, so I'm here looking for any and all suggestions and advice as to how to make some steps forward