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Well, only mildly ashamed.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
I spent a couple of years just trying to play songs on an acoustic and really didnt study the guitar at all, I just learned the chords I needed to play songs that I liked. I suppose that now after a bit of a warm up (or about 6 beers) I can probably knock something out, with a bit of style, that sounds ok to the uninitiated, if I can remember the chords.
I think this period helped me develop some strength and dexterity, and realise that actually you can learn things that initially seem almost impossible. I'm sure though that if you naturally have quite good coordination, then you can get to my level much, much quicker.
There's a bloke at work who has literally just started, and when I talk to him, I realise.... the thing with playing the guitar is that you forget how far you have actually come. To a genuine beginner, even fretting a C chord is difficult, and then there's muting the bottom E.... I suppose the fact that I just do all this automatically now, means I'm not a beginner.
I'm still not good though.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
If you ever find anyone who claims to have mastered the guitar (or any other musical instrument for that matter), you'll have found someone with an excess of self-confidence.
If no-one can really be finished, the most we can claim is that we're beginners who have made more or less progress in any one of an infinite number of directions depending on why we play, what we play, what we play for, etc.
I think it's more important to enjoy playing, rather than to beat yourself up because you don't think you've achieved some arbitrary (and quite probably irrelevant) "standard".
That's my excuse anyway. I'm a beginner, and I enjoy it.
At home in the French backwaters
In my - albeit limited - experience, the person most likely to be shouting out "that guy's crap!" is the person who least knows their own level of accomplishment
You mean, pro gig reviewers don't actually know anything about musicianship???
Shocker :-O
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)