Hello,
Eric in Minnesota. 54.
Signed up for GT in 2015, but finally became a full member about 2.5 years ago. I do have a music background. Played trombone in high school and college. Played piano for many years and worked as a professional musician in top 40/rock/punk bands for several years when I was younger. I learned a few chords in college just from picking up the guitars that were laying around. Eventually learned a few basic songs, and that's as far as I got for 30 years.
In the last two years decided to revisit guitar. And I'm completely amazed at the progress I made once I just focused on one lesson at a time. Lisa's fundamentals courses were amazingly effective at developing my skills in year 1. It is so easy to fixate on all the things you can't do and should work on, when really the most important thing is to keep working. In year 2 I completed Level 1 Blues, Level 1 Acoustic, and about 1/2 of Level 1 Rock.
After 2 years of working through tutorials I now think of myself as a functional guitar player. Good enough to provide myself accompaniment on a fairly wide range of songs - though the learning curve on any given song can still be pretty long.
But, I do have a question. Have you, or should I pick a path? For example, focus on acoustic and do level 1/level 2? Or do all the level 1s and then move to level 2? Seems like there is some overlap across the styles. So curious if it was designed with a particular path in mind.
Thanks!
