Hello. I am new to all of this, but not new to guitars. I have decided that after roughly fifty years of trying to play, it's time to actually learn something about guitars. At age seven or eight, I made a deal with a friend to buy an electric guitar. His dad wasn't happy when he found out his kid had stolen his guitar and sold it for $5! I gave the guitar back, but I'm pretty sure I never got my five bucks back. As a teenager, I took group lessons and individual lesson, but it's safe to say I was not a successful student. Currently, I have an old Applause acoustic that I bought about 1978. Every few years I have gone through a phase where I pick the guitar up again. I still can't really play much except a few chords and two finger picking patterns.
It looks like there are other oldsters here who are trying to do what I'm trying to do. Is there anyone on staff who is especially adept at working with old, easily frustrated, non-plastic brains? My goal is to be able to play some John Denver, maybe some James Taylor, but I realize I will probably never be able to play like Michael Hedges.