If I can pass along one thing I have learned...when you first learn to play, learn especially the basics ...the right way. I've learned the hard way, its easy to learn to do things the right way in the beginning ...rather than to try and UNLEARN bad habits later.
A perfect example .... I could play just well enough to get by playing for myself or family...but I could never get any speed when trying to do like runs and riffs.
One day I found the internet and found out why. I never knew that when you wrap your fingering hand around the neck of the guitar to play...you don't try to grip the neck like you are holding a baseball bat.
I didn't know that your thumb and fingers are to just float on the neck and barely touch it. So once I found that out ...now I am working on breaking the bad habit that I learned wrong ..by putting a death squeeze on the neck.
WOW...now I have opened a whole new world of playing...and my speed has increased greatly ...
So....best to learn things the right way...right from the start from those who know.
Bill