Need some advice...

I am a 20 year old aspiring guitarist. I have some basic knowledge of guitar, I can strum some open chords, I am comgortable playing E and A shaped barre chords, I can some basic fingerstyle patterns and basic renditions of popular fingerstye songs such as Blackbird, Here comes the sun etc. I am doing my Engineering currently and cannot attend classes. I am completely self taught. I wish to continue learning and improving but I am unsure what to do next. I am not interested in playing solo lead guitar or blues and stuff, I want to learn to play purely acoustic renditions of songs, kind of like Sungha Jung does. Any advice on what I should work on would be appreciated.

[br]Thanks in advance

To me, it just seems you should go the standard route of the basic two programs and then the acoustic advanced program. If you already have your open chords mastered and, especially if you can play barre chords, you have an advantage over most people starting completely new. Definitely there will be lessons that you will breeze through.

but this will make sure that you have all the basic concepts covered and then you can go on to your acoustic specialization.

Here is the "flow chart". Best of luck to you in your studies.

[u]Always[/u] start at the beginning. If you know the stuff already, you'll breeze through it. If you don't know the stuff it's parmount to learn it before you can move on.

matonanjin2 above, wise he is.

Welcome to GT and the Forum. Good luck, have [u]fun[/u].

I had not heard of Sungha Jung prior to your post so looked him up on Google. He has a very solid foundation behind him thanks to his father and his own initiative to search out knowledge. So it would be my guess that Sungha Jung has a very solid understanding of the foundations of music - foundations being another way of describing theory.

For me, things made more sense once I began studying theory. It helped me understand why music is put together the way it is.

It makes no difference if you want to be a lead guitarist or rhythm or just make stuff up on the fly. Knowing the structure is important.

I understand you are a student and perhaps the cost of gaining full access to GT is not in the cards. However, there are many other ways to get the information thanks to the web. I would begin a study of music theory.

If you are as you say, you are accustomed to high levels of study. Music theory should be a cake walk.

Good luck