Originally Posted by: bschuhmaThanks, maggior, but you made my point for me - Hotel California takes something like *9* guitars to make work! I started in on it, learned a few licks and got discouraged knowing I'd never be able to play it from start to finish and have people recognize it.

I'll look into your other suggestions, though. Thanks.

Bret

You missed my point - you don't need 9 guitars to make it work. It can work with one acoustic guitar strumming Bm, F#, A, E, G, D, Em, F# (I think that's the progression). After you advance further, you can go back and revisit it and learn the more intricate parts of the song.

As Jon pointed out, doing just that in time through the entire song can be quite satisfying.

In fact, I'll be doing that myself. I learned the basic chords and the 2nd solo back in the day. It was news to me that a capo was used for the intro part. One of these days I'll be tackling that.