Originally Posted by: mjgodin

I would suggest however, if you get to that point and ready to put those instruments on craigslist go back to some of the earlier lessons you were taught in Fundamentals 1 &2.

When your now able to play the songs and melodies with so much more ease then when you first learned them it might rekindle some of that fun again. It's worth a shot.

I do this when I start to feel frustrated and start questioning whether I am ever going to get better at this. I go back to something I worked on weeks ago and see if I can do some things better than before. Usually I can do quite a bit better and things that seemed really hard before now feel a lot easier. That gives me a little spark of enthusiasm again.

It sounds like you are being pretty tough on yourself, Keith. You seem to be putting pressure on yourself as if there was a deadline by which you have to achieve some level of proficiency. If you're feeling like you have hit a plateau and are not getting better, that is actually a normal part of learning a complex skill - especially something like guitar that requires very high precision and dexterity both physically and mentally. It's not unusual to get stuck at a certain level or even to regress a bit and then one day you make a big step forward. Your brain is working to assimilate and consolidate a whole bunch of stuff. Sometimes while that is happening you really will regress until the pieces suddenly fall into place.

I agree with these guys though - if it's not fun for a prolonged period of time, take a break. [br][br]

Good luck, I hope this works out for you and you find your way back to enjoying yourself with the guitar.