Originally Posted by: markm0926I hear what you are saying and use to feel that way sometimes . But now I just see music as all fun and not as a competition.
Heck I'm 50 and learned some songs from 8 year olds on YouTube that could play circles around me! lol and I think it's great that they are that good.

+1

And once my attitude changed I started feeling better. It use to bother me to the point of depression -- "I'll never be that good." But now I've learned to let that go, to appreciate what others can do (that appreciation opened or reopened me to more genres) and to be mindful that it's 'the journey, not the destination.'

For a great read (and re-reads as us fans have learned) see, [U]zen guitar[/U] by Philip Toshio Sudo. It's short, it's cheap and it's really, really good.