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

It will get better!

When I first put my fingers in the shape of a C-chord, I told myself there's no way in hell that I will ever do that correctly. Now, just 6 or 7 weeks into the game, my fingers move relatively fluidly between the 5 major open chords (C-A-G-E-D), and the three minor chords I've learned so far. At this point, Lisa showed us the B-chord and the F-chord, and I just a few days ago told myself that there's no way in hell that I will ever be able to do that correctly.

I'm sure I'll laugh about this statement in a few weeks, and so will you. Muscle memory in something really amazing, as I learned from tennis. Once you trained your wrist, hand, and fingers to get into a certain shape, over and over and over again, they'll do that automatically.

The one and only challenge for us is to stick it out. We may never become guitar superstars, but I'm sure a few years from now we can sit around the campfire and entertain a whole group of people without looking silly.