Originally Posted by: jadaldouglas

Okay everyone. I just want you to know that I woke up today with a whole new outlook because of all of you. I pushed through tried different things and am still at it now. I can switch between Em and Am and it's getting easier by the minute. PHEW. I'm not going to give up.

Excellent!

And yeah, plateaus suck. I've been working on a fingerpicking pattern for over a month and was so frustrated, and then tonight, I picked up the guitar and the pattern just rolled off my fingers.

Sometimes it comes all at once and the key is just to wait for it -- Billy Joel said every piano has X number of hit songs in it and his job was just to sit there and play crap for long enough to allow them to come out. (I'm not sure that's directly relevant, but it came up, so I thought I'd share it, LOL)