Hi all,

I'm 45 and started with an acoustic guitar in 2005 after years of guitar hero.  I've been off and on and off again have a fender starcaster with an authentic stratocaster neck.

I can play songs and read guitar tab, mostly.  But I have several serious shortcomings I want to address.

Timing

Strumming - specifically alternatating up, down up up up down etc,  

Learning the notes

Basically I want to smoothly play in time and advanced strumming.  I also want to progress to soloing over looping chord tracks.  I'd love to just play a back track and hit notes that sound good.

I enjoy being able to dive into a tab and make it sound like the song.  I just want to get better and am trying to maximize the little bit of practice time I'm putting in.

FYI mostly self taught from videos and books.  I did take one set of lessons years ago.