Daddyrabbit here. I just turned 55 on Thursday. I received my first guitar this past Christmas and was taking lessons for two months from an instructor. He didn't know how to read music and hence could not teach me that part of things. When I found this site last week and went through the free material, I joined right away. It is by far the finest instruction I have experienced to date and would highly recommend the site to anyone I knew who wanted to learn to play guitar.

I am struggling to learn to move between the chords. My instructor told me it takes 10,000 repititions to gain "muscle memory". Does anybody know if that is true? I am not sure whether age has any bearing on my learning right now. When I was a lad, I learned to play the sax quite well. It took me a year to feel comfortable playing and to read music. Even though that was more than 40 years ago, reading the music is coming back to me with the help I am getting from this site.

My main problem seems to be the large size of my hands and fingers. I wear a 15 ring size on my third finger, just to give you an idea of how big my fingers are. I have found that the Ibanez guitars (Artcore) seem to have the widest necks and larger spacing between strings. With some of the chords, there is just no way I can find to get three finger tips between the frets. Does anyone know which electric guitars have the largest necks and spacing between the strings?

Hats off to the oldest members on this list who are learning guitar. I really admire you for that.

Regards
Daddyrabbit