Originally Posted by: bennettring

Hey guys

I played guitar as a teen for a few years, but decided to pick it up again as a 44 year old adult stuck in Melbourne, Australia lockdown. So I bought me a Cort acoustic guitar, a pack of picks, and started trying various online classes. First was yousician, but couldn't progress through the course as I got to a stage that required an electric guitar for hammering. Then I tried Fender Play, and did the Folk streamline - after about 4 weeks of playing daily, I hit the end of that stream and had learnt not a lot! So now I'm here - I want to focus on acoustic, with some blues, folk, country and whatever else I can play with my gear.

Where do I start?

Reiterate the others. Start at Fundementals 1.

Back when I first joined in 2008, and have played in a band and had some 'shredder' playing ability, I figured that I would still start from the very beginning with Fundementals 1. If you played a bit there are some things that you will skip and that's just fine. I mean, I didn't need to know the ergonomics of guitar or cowboy chords but I also realized that since I had been self taught, there's a whole lot of baseline knowledge I did not know. I mean, I could play it but I didn't understand it from how what I played connected to theories and such. It's still my weakness.

So that being said, take time to start more or less from the beginning. The structure will build your knowledge and beef up your abilities.

If you have some skills in playing, you can learn songs in the library too as a means to keep it interesting.