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Originally Posted by StrangerNY
The best advice I can give you is keep trying. You might feel like you 'hit the wall' at points and your playing isn't progressing as much as it should.
But keep in mind that when you hit the wall, a breakthrough is just around the corner. Keep at it.
- D
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Weird thing is that I went through a period where I didn't play guitar for a good 6 months. Before that, I was trying to learn the beginning harmony part in Avenged Sevenfold's Burn it Down. I got the notes and everything, I just couldn't get it up to speed. Well, after that 6 month period, a friend told me to play the coolest thing I could think of (he's a metal head, so playing that seemed good). I wasn't expecting it, but I picked up the guitar, went through the notes quickly and went for it. To my amazement, I played it perfectly, and up to speed. I would have never thought that after 6 months of not playing that 1)I'd be able to remember the notes and 2) play it better than I ever had before.
Needless to say, that alone got me started playing guitar again, and I have learned more in the year and a half since, then I ever thought.
My thinking is that I already know enough of what I want to do to start, I've just played it in a song and not realized I was applying theory. For instance, I started messing around trying my own solos, and since I started playing again, I realized I had figured out the blues pentatonic without realizing it. Backing tracks have helped a lot since they usually say the chord progression.