I've been watching this go by for about a month now. All I can say is stay in there and continue to play as much as you can. I'm 59. I picked up my first guitar (a used Seagull Cedar Maritime 6 string) about three years ago. I have 4 kinds of arthritis and my hands hurt like a 4x4 with chains went over them and then backed up to make sure the job was done, just about most of the time. In the past three years, I've yet to learn ONE freakin' song, beginning to end. Maybe I'm stoopid. Maybe I'm not. I need to keep my joints moving since if I don't I'm told they'll fuse together. F that. So I work on chords, scales and even songs, then any given morning, I can't use one hand or the other for a week to a month, setting me back to ground ZERO. Know what? I still want to play guitar! In the words of Chumbawamba " I get knocked down, but I get up again, and they're never gonna keep me down!" I've got three used guitars now, love trying to learn on them and making them the best used guitars they can be - I love to tinker. The mags I subscribe to (print and digital) plus the catalogs I get, my wife and I have come to call guitar porn. It IS discouraging at times, but WTF, I've gotta do something. Mark my words, a year from now I'll have at least 4 songs under my belt. I hope. :D