Originally Posted by
Sam Sherry
BT, here's an alternative viewpoint FWIW.
Efficiency is vastly overrated. A gigantic portion of your development as a musician is derived from your development as a person. That would be the part that moves you toward being an artist who 'has something to say,' rather then a mere guitarist whose only message is, "Look at me!!!" There is nothing you can do to hurry that.
You can and should put in the hours and years of work to improve as a guitarist which folks have covered so well above. While you do, keep touching the joy of playing -- the joy of making that noise, of making it with people and making it for people. That joy is part of your artistic nugget. Some night you will up there, lost and befuddled as everything sounds wrong and people glare at you. The joy can help get you back from there.
Finally, with respect to the innumerable examples on YouTube and TV and radio and school and sessions and everywhere you turn: Every single one of them was a beginner. They've all been where you are now. Let them inspire you, let them inform your quest to be . . . you.
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