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psour33
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psour33
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08/08/2019 6:23 am

Hi there .

I'm 63 now and started playing guitar 2 years ago.

So I purchased an electric guitar.

The last time I touched this sort of instrument I was 16 !

I started looking at some videos on YT then I suscribed to GT.

That was great at first and helped me a lot especialy learning with Lisa's beginner's course.

But as I'm french I had some trouble to understand everything explained.

After 2 years of "sterile internet wandering", I was not able to fix on a precise goal, so I tried blues, rock, soloing, and so on, total mess.

At the end I went with a french guitar teacher, and restart all from scratch.

Back to the basic, I learned a few chords well and I'm now learning only rhythm wich I think is the foundation of playing guitar.

I've read your posts and I find that we most all share same troubles at start.

I think the most difficult thing in playing an instrument is to find a goal to acheive before going any further.

I wish you all the success you diserve in your learning.

Regards form France

Patrick

(sorry for my strange english).