this is a great website. Well, I've only got myself a guitar 3 weeks ago and I am 23 years old. I've bought an acoustic Ibanez, I think I will buy an electric guitar but only after I've learned to play better.
Anyway, I have a question for the veteran guitarists... I am now mostly learning chords and having fun with the guitar (as I've once been to music school for a couple of months as a kid and it was torture and if anything it made me loose interest, so I've decided that I won't repeat that mistake, I will only do what I want and when I want to, but most of all I will enjoy doing it). So, the question; my speed is terrible. I can play the chords but the tricks here, even the easy ones seem hard. Everything seems easy enough, but the speed is just dreadful. What I'd like to know is did everybody have these problems and does practice improve the speed in every case or is my guitar playing a lost cause and I am too old to have started in the first place? Anyway, can anyone tell me how to build up speed?
Best wishes to you all,
Andrej Petelin