joesef, I am going to give you an early Christmas gift, practice is a learning art, A few minutes of non-stop practice is all it takes to completely annihilate the muscles you use to play guitar. Once that happens, you lose the ability to effectively coordinate your fingers.[br]Any practicing you do after that will be a total waste, because you won't have any accuracy. And if you practice without accuracy, you're just asking for bad habits, and awful sounding playing.[br]Bottom line: Long non-stop practice sessions will probably SLOW DOWN your progress more than help.[br]You see, it's easy to forget that half the battle with learning guitar is PHYSICAL.[br]Yet those strings each have 15-20 POUNDS of tension in them (for steel strings). That's over 100 pounds of tension, your little fingers have to compete with.[br]What's worse... if you have a junk guitar, or a badly setup one...[br]It'll be so hard to press down on the strings, you'll probably NEVER be able to learn on it.[br]At least not properly, or quickly, or effectively, or without developing tons of bad habits.Here is how to do it: 1.[br]Practice for 30, 60, or even 120 minutes[br]2.[br]In ONE long, daily session[br]But most importantly…[br]3.[br]Make "pit-stops" every 5-10 minutes to rest for 1-5 minutes, minimum[br]And always remember, if your hands feel rigid and stiff, stop playing immediately. They are destroyed and need to recover. You won't practice accurately with tired tense fingers, I guarantee it. And that is all there is to practice correctly, do this and you Will see results like you never have before. I suggest you start your practice routine with 30 minutes and over time you can build up to those higher minutes as your fingers adjust and get stronger. Stay motivated, practice everyday, and above all have fun doing it. Let me know how you are doing