en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/306314 Comments by DanGross http://sixstringlounge.com/guitar-for-the-absolute-beginner-jerks-in-music-stores-and-why-i-suck-at-golf/#IDComment14214304 Heh, I get your drift Mark. Since college, whenever I had access to a guitar (roommate one year, then my wife had one lying around that she hadn't played for years) I'd follow the same formula: 1.) Pick up guitar 2.) Quickly build my capabilities up to the last time I picked up guitar. 3.) Hit "the wall" (learning new stuff above and beyond what was I had learned last time) and get discouraged 4.) Put guitar down for a couple years. I think the frustration was compounded by the fact that, being a drummer since 5th grade, I somehow in my mind expected to be able to get as good at guitar as I was at drums in no time flat, even though one does not relate at all to the other. But it, in effect, took until I was playing with some regularity (at church) that I started practicing with some regularity. My abilities have developed slowly, but I still don't push myself enough, as is evident by the calluses that disappear as soon as they develop... Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:18:54 +0000 http://sixstringlounge.com/guitar-for-the-absolute-beginner-jerks-in-music-stores-and-why-i-suck-at-golf/#IDComment14214304