Seven years ago when I was 51 I bought a road bike and a guitar. I don't have any music backround but it's something I've always wanted and I'm finding that's exactly what this decade is about. I did self guided lessons so that I wouldn't feel totally inept when I signed up for weekly lessons with an instructor (many instructors said they wouldn't teach adults). Then I reverted back to self teaching. I never quite give it up but I feel like I learn fragmented things and can't put it together or be confident enough to play... I don't think what I'm playing sounds like a real player. I'm here because I'm seeking that lesson that brings me past that point of always stopping.. the zen of it. I love one thing I read here posted as a reply to another member that said.. "If you're too focused on results you'll fall away, love the process". How true, I'm heeding that good advise of enjoying the process. I already sense one small difference and that is that I can play at the same time the instructor is playing and that helps me keep up and so what I hear sounds like it should... This is going to be a good thing, I hope.
Evelyn.