Nearly 4 years into this journey and I am happy to say that I aim to play every single day.   I truly dislike not being able to play.

Guitar Tricks has been instrumental, pun intended, in providing me with the foundation on which to build.  I have been playing constantly since I posted this and have gotten significantly better than I was.  I feel I am beyond "ok" now and working on "good" lol.

In my opinion, I have earned my Les Paul.  I have built up a solid collection over the last few years and love them all.  

If there are any other folks on the fence about signing up with GT, just do it.  Put real time and effort in and it will pay off.  Practice is the key. :-)  Who knew lol....lots of people that's who. Every single person who can play guitar or any instrument has to put in some practice time.  

Best of luck.  Time to go play.