Originally Posted by: graemehakin

Hey all,[br]I'm new to guitar (bar a small dabble many years ago while in my teens), and everything about it feels awkward. I'm guessing it's just because it's new and it will get better over time, but 2 weeks in and it's hard despite practiing just about every day. Tell me it'll get better, guys.

thanks,

G

NZ

I do think people sometimes expect more of themselves at the outset of guitar. Few people feel comfortable when they first started playing. Think of it less like learning guitar and how it should feel. It's like you have no point of reference of how long that will take.

Think about it in these terms. Let's say you're currently not in great shape but you decide you have the goal of running a marathon (full 26.2). The first day out, how far do you think you would go? I'm sure you'd say to yourself that you can't even get to a 5k walk much less a full run 26k. But you have to start with the understanding that the long term goal take may steps and short term goals and growth to get there. It may take a year or two years to get to the 26k but with good planning of growing from shorter walks to a end goal of running the full deal, you could get there (I'm not a runner, so what do I know.....).

Same thing with guitar, it's something that you build upon. Some days you'll feel awesome and other days you'll want to toss it down the stairs because your fingers just won't cooperate (anf for the record, most days you'll love the instrumwent). Make small goals and achieve them. The long term part of playing is that you're always learning and to the world, you could be an amaziong player but as a student of the instrument, you'll always know there is something you want to play but can't yet do.

Right now it just seems more pronounced because there isn't much you can play yet. Two weeks is nothing in time. I took to guitar pretty naturally when I picked it up but even at two weeks, I couldn't play jack squat.

Don't worry about how good you are right, just enjoy the process of getting there and watching the little acheivements. I've been playing for 35 years and lately I've been learning a lot of songs outside of my wheelhouse, Like I said, always something to learn....