Nice , not nice to read your post.
I'm at a similar point in time
Except I'm happy to just take any progress as it comes.
I'm doing finger picking patterns . I can follow single note melodies
I can only do the chord changes to about 85-90 with a metronome and can play along in the lessons when Anders or Lisa is doing the slower demo's but rarely fast enough for most songs in real time
However it is my general strumming I am not happy with . My single strums can sound very clear and chimey but as soon as I play chords and changes in multiples, even in a simple 4/4 time my chords soon get very clunky , bicycle wheel clicky. Even worse on up strums. I think I need to go for a drive in the car and do what Caren advised. Just repeat that 20,000 times and it will be fine. Your family and neighbours will love you for it.
It does seem that we get frustrated when others appear to be flying and the utubers are supposedly playing songs after a week but I feel from my position, your post and from what William says , we are where we are , doing the best we can and accepting that improvements do come just very very slowly in the real life situation.
Dave
Sorry Dave to post such a long winded frustrated concern., i posted not good timing to where i was at, just wanted to know it's ok to still struggle at times even at this time in my journey. in the light of day i, we have lots to be proud of even attempting and taking the 20,000 times to do it. i see rapid progress everywhere, but just wondered from ones longer in their journey if i would ever get to where chords would be smooth and clean and easy which is our goal right? should have simpified and asked one of the teachers and been specific and not emotional. we took this journey for a reason and need to remember that and focus on proper practice, and internally celebrate each win and they will eventually get us where we want to be., i'll be deleting post and hopefully you still get the message. keep up your good work. i pick songs i love, choose ones from your childhood that moved you, and feel the rhythm. i also enjoyed doing Keith Urban's 30 songs in 30 days, he picks fairly easy songs and teaches you something new each song and you can slow down youtube playback and also you eventually play along with a professional and then the band and then you as the guitar player as the ultimate goal of each song. youtube song teachers really go slow teaching each song, i have my fav youtube song teachers, you'll find them., bc when you learn a song, best you can play, you feel on top of the world. but remember to learn only parts of the song, get them right, slowly and that could take awhile, i take 2-3 weeks getting right the first line of Blackbirds, but i'm tenacious that way and that's what we have to do. i have since realized and looked back at this new frustration and see i took TOO much on at once, and overpracticed chord changes to the point of tiredness. i'm going to scale that down and add 'beats loop' or something to make it fun to do those drills. you have to do chord drills daily, i read once the slower you go the faster you'll get there.
