Well..... when i first picked up the the guitar i was 14....and I loved it! I would print out tabs i couldnt play and study them....the hardest tab i got was cliffs of dover...but i loved this guitar so much that my family would alway see me on this couch playing monday through friday 6 hours and saturdays 12 hours straight(sunday is Church time:) with of course little breaks like bathroom or lucnhen.. but for those 12 hours i would try to at least play the tabs i got.. it got to the point when in the first 8 months of playing i finally learned cliffs of dover..but soon I've noticed my relationship with my guitar was deterioting. i was spending less time with it. heck.... there some days were i dont pick it up...does anyone do that? were they spend so much time with it when you first get it, but then you lose intrest in it because theres not much elese to do with it but write your own songs?