Been playing for 2 years, 1st time taking lessons

Whatsup guys!

I must admit I've never joined something like this and I could use some general direction.

I've been playing guitar for about 2 years now, with a small 4-5 month break after the first year due to life's demanding my attention elsewhere at the time. I've never had a formal lesson before and am mostly self taught. For lack of a better term I play mostly intuitively, as in whatever I play is usually different yet similar and coincides with my inner state at the time as to how it comes out. I know a decent amount of chords but only two scales, the names of which I don't know.

There's been times in the last few years that I was definitely devoting significantly more time to it than others, though regardless I thoroughly enjoy jamming out on it and can do some pretty nice stuff even with my limited knowledge. Most of what I know outside of the things I initially looked up have come from pure exploration and messing around, I don't even know what they are.

Now that this whole quarantine thing is going on and I've been home for so long I figured I'd go and make the best of it by signing up for classes and taking it more seriously as I've wanted to be an excellent guitar player for most of my life that I can remember.

Does anyone have any recommendations as to where I should first start out? Any tips on warm up exercises, finger positioning, etc.

I suspect what you're looking for is structure to bind what you know together so you can fill in the missing parts of the jigsaw to move on unencumbered to more advanced levels and skills.

You've taken the first step with recognition of a problem or obstacle and determining a remedy and objective, whether the latter is vague or specific.

[br]With that in mind, the beginning would seem a logically sound place to start. That way you'll discover what you don't know and should, and will fly through it in no time with what you do.

Will aspects of it be irrelevent and tedious? Undeniably yes. I suppose it depends upon how thorough you want to be? You'll analyse which lessons you can literally review and afford to bypass.

That's how I'd approach it were I in your position, or gaps will remain to possibly hamper you later. It won't take you long from where you are. Cheers.

P.S. If that is where you choose to start here, in doing so you might want to use [u]Christopher Schlegel's since superseded original Guitar Tricks Fundamentals[/u] Level 1 & Level 2 from where you currently are. Whilst only available in a lower 540p vid res, they're more [u]to the point direct[/u] than I found the softer, Dick and Dora, Nip and Fluff-esque hand holding tenor of the current Fundamentals 1 & 2 courses. Either will take you to where you need to be. As always, the disclaimer OMMV.