Starting again.

Hi, ive tried to learn guitar a couple of times before. Once by myself about 10 years ago and once a couple of years ago with a teacher. Took lessons for a few months and everything seemed to be progressing fine and he moved out of town. I thought I would try and have a go myself but all i ended up doing was printing out a bunch of tabs and jumping all over the place trying to play songs instead of learing. I tried to look around in the beginner lessons last night to see where I needed to start and couldnt find a good spot. I guess I really need to start from the beginning all over again. Thats where I always have faltered before when trying to learn on my own. Trying to go too fast. I hope that this course will give me the boost I need with the correct learning path. Im 34 years old so im definatly late to the party but not too late!

Any tips for me would greatly be appreciated.

The learning paths are the way to go I reckon. As for 34 being late to the party, you might want to check out this:

https://www.guitartricks.com/forum/thread.php?f=8&t=35199

There are folk in their 70s on here!

I'm 47 :-)

maldr427, Start here with the Guitar Fundementals courses. When I joined this site a number of years ago, even though I was a pretty knowedgable player and had, I think, a solid amount of skill...I still went through them. Sure, for me as a former 80's shredder, chunks of it were not needed. It was still a useful excercize. Why? To grab that thing you might not have thought of.

I was almost totally self taught. This means I learned very little as far as rules and good base knowledge. Now, I think I had an instinct for playing so I was able to get to a pretty advanced playing level at one point without really learning a good base level knowledge.

Sounds like I am telling you you don't really need to start from the beginning; wrong! I regret skipping all that stuff. I realize there are/were spectacular gaps in what I know and what I should know. Working through that base stuff will serve you well. You may have several instances where you go 'Oh, I got that. I know it.' but there will be things that you will go 'Oh, that's useful' or, later 'Man, I'm glad I took the time to learned that basic stuff'.

Further up the road, that baseline stuff will matter.

Hi young man.

I'm 72 with a musical background but hadn't touched a guitar for years.

I started this course from the beginning a few weeks ago and haven't regretted it at all.

When I come across stuff I know, I have been tempted to skip a bit forward but I'm glad I didn't.

I stuck with it, taking it slowly one step at a time.

The course is excellent and I'm improving all the time.

I would suggest you start from the beginning to get your fingers and playing muscles back in shape. You won't regret it.

Joe

Looks like I will start from lesson one and go from there. Counting my wife and kids I have 4 girls in the house. Daily practice in my shop sounds like a grand idea!