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bigtankhappy
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bigtankhappy
Registered User
Joined: 01/13/20
Posts: 9
01/20/2022 5:16 am

Hello everyone!

First and foremost, I would like to thank the Guitar Tricks instructors and community for allowing me to persist and keep playing guitar for over two years now. I've been a subscriber since march of 2020 and I've absolutely enjoyed almost everything.

I've got a slight issue though, that I need help with:

I struggle to focus my learning as a guitar player, and I'm dissapointed with my progress. I listen to A LOT of music from many different artists, and I would love to be able to l learn absolutely everything, but I struggle to find myself an actual path to follow that can help me grow as a player. Below is what I've been working on for the past few months:

November 2019 - September 2021 - Chords/Barre Chords/A few songs

September 2021 - Day Tripper - The Beatles (1.5 years of playing)

October 2021- November 2021 - Good Times Bad Times (the rhythm parts)

November 2021 - Barracuda - Heart (still need to work on the riff for this :/)

December - January 2021 - Shook me All Night Long (rhythm parts are easy, took a while to get that solo down though)

Present day - Into the Void - Black Sabbath

I could use help figuring out an actual path for myself. I want to go places on this instrument but I am struggling to find a line of focus to follow. I'm sure im not the only guitarist with this issue, please feel free to post your own stories/problems below.

Thank you, and happy belated new year!

- Sam