I'd disagree with everyone here. If you can afford to buy yourself another guitar I'd go for it. For about £200 you should be able to get yourself a nice guitar that's easy to play and stays in tune. You can easily sell your squire on e-bay or try trading it in at the shop you buy yer next guitar from. Don't upgrade your squire. It ain't gonna ever cut it as a main axe once you've got better. I started playing on a real piece of crap Aria ProII strat shape. I'm pretty sure it was made of chipboard and it played and sounded terrible. Once I got my new guitar ( a Les Paul copy) my playing got much better as a> Iwas in tune and B> it had a much better action.