🙃 Hi, my Name is Darren and I am returning to the site after a three or four year break.  I am determined to conquer the guitar, if it kills me, and it probably will 😬.  I am just progressing from that beginner stage but I am being held back by the strumming pattern and chord speed changing issue.  As I live alone there is no-one to ask for advice, so, I am hoping that there is someone out there that can throw a little advice in my general direction.  Maybe my practice routine is totally upside down and I need to start again.  I am practicing every day as time is something that I have plenty of  so................... I have even given myself the incentive of purchasing a Gibson SG Standard '61 Maestro Vibrola' Vintage Cherry with Nickel Hardware & a PRS Myles Kennedy Signature 'Hunters Green', but I am not allowing myself to play them until I get myself to a worthwhile standard.  Yes you have worked it out, I am crazy 😜, but a little craziness helps.  So, time to hang upside down for half an hour before I practice again.  Take Care & Keep up the hard but great work.

Darren J