Originally Posted by: snojones

I would strongly encourage you to find that practice partner. You can learn on your own and GT can really help with this. But unless you are content to practice alone in your closet, having friends to jam with is SOLID GOLD FOR LEARNING GUITAR.

Friends can make, running over the same damn song again and again, great fun. It also, in my opinion, the direct route to competence. Leaning in private can seem a lot like work. Leaning by jamming can make that same work into FUN. You mind learns by listening and learning, your body learns by physical practice. Everone leans by physical practice and I see no way I would be able to play at the level I am at, without all those years getting together with my friends and making noise by banging on guitars with each other.

@blajacl85, welcome to you.

I just can't describe better the benefits of jamming with other musicians better than snojones did. But......

Until the pandemic hit I jammed with a couple friends every Wednesday night and it was the greatest thing to happen to my playing/learning since I started to learn guitar. I fully realize it isn't the same as the jamming remotely that you are talking about, but I think there are some similarities.

Beyond the fact it was an incredible amount of fun, there were some factors that forced me to learn. I had to get the music and study the songs we were playing. It forced me to keep up and get the timing, especially the chord changes. And I actually played lead on a couple of the simpler songs! And I was especially fortunate in that the two other guys are way better than I am and they were really patient and helped me a lot.

I don't know anything about the Jam Station here that @JeffS65 mentioned. I have heard very mixed reviews ofJamkazam but it might be something else to look into.

Good luck to you in your learning. And btw, I'm a rural guy also. And will be for a couple more months. We have lived in the same house we built, on a farm, since 1980. On July 1 there will be a few tears shed. But it's that time for the next chapter.