This is a great thread, as others have said. I bought my 19 year old son a Les Paul for Christmas and realized that I might be more hooked than he is. So I went out and bought a beautiful cherry Epiphone Dot for me! I'm 53 and never played guitar. Had a little musical training with piano and clarinet while in grade school, but that was it.

Now my wife says she's a "guitar widow" because I've been playing a few hours every day when I get home from work. This site has been a great experience because I can take lessons at any hour, and for me that's usually 9pm to midnight. I can play along now on the Jam tracks for blues in E and A, I can make chord changes for the pretty basic open chords, can manage a blues shuffle, a few transitions, etc. It's really addicting now that I can do a few things that are possibly recognizable and don't scare away all of the pets and local wildlife.

Have got a lot of work to do on the barre chords, and as several have mentioned, the fingers just don't seem to speak that language, yet. I've just got to dedicate the time to it. Also continuing to work on the pentatonic scales in all the positions. Slow but steady growth on that.

One thing that really drives me nuts is when I'm traveling for several days and can't play. At least there's still the forum!

Bruce