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devilchild  
30 Oct 2011 14:46 | Quote
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I've been teaching myself now for 10 months, I understand different people learn at different speeds, but I was just wondering if im making good enough progress, what was the best thing you could play after about 10 months?
DanielM  
30 Oct 2011 14:55 | Quote
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I honestly can't remember back that far.

But some people learn faster than others it's the way of the world as long as you put the most effort into guitar that you feel you want to give it/can give it it doesn't matter.
matt8675  
30 Oct 2011 15:52 | Quote
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After 10 months I had gotten pretty good. Ive only played electric for like 15 months, and the hardest song i fully know is probably crazy train, and everyone learns that sometime.
V3N0M3333  
30 Oct 2011 17:39 | Quote
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btimm  
30 Oct 2011 18:05 | Quote
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meh, don't worry about howfar you are progressing. If you are having fun and learning at all, then that is all that counts. Different people progress at different rates. And different people have different time allowances as well.
gshredder2112  
30 Oct 2011 18:44 | Quote
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At 15 months I sucked,@40....I still suck.
Domigan_Lefty  
30 Oct 2011 20:54 | Quote
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After ten months? Hmm.....
No idea. But I think that was right after the end of freshman year of HS, When I was mostly making punk songs.
JustJeff  
30 Oct 2011 22:43 | Quote
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This is where youtube is **ing awesome. This is a video I made about a year after I started playing guitar. It's a good indicator of where I was after a year.

V3N0M3333  
31 Oct 2011 06:02 | Quote
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btimm says:
meh, don't worry about howfar you are progressing. If you are having fun and learning at all, then that is all that counts.


+1
Empirism  
31 Oct 2011 08:56 | Quote
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I probably knew barely parts of couple scales and didnt make it to stay on beat...

10 months... it might depend do you try to learn with teacher or by self... how long you practise in a day, what you practise and what is your real "knowhow"... how good you really are? practising one song that you can play good or do you have wide area you master, minor and major scales and their variations, lead or rhythm or both, shredding or shuffle... how you can improvise what you are able to into different style of music and chord progressions... how you ever can describe how good you get in months or in years? Answer is probably "not good enough".

Emp
btimm  
31 Oct 2011 11:39 | Quote
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Empirism says:
Answer is probably "not good enough".


Couldn't have said it better myself. Nice to see you back posting Emp!!
telecrater  
1 Nov 2011 00:19 | Quote
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gshredder2112 says:
At 15 months I sucked,@40....I still suck.


+1 to this one and what Empirism said
Afro_Raven  
1 Nov 2011 12:34 | Quote
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As a teacher, this is a question I get asked a lot, and the truth is I can't remember how good I was at the 10 month mark. However, I do remember that I loved the skill level I was at and felt hugely motivated to keep playing and improving.

Honestly, it really doesn't matter how much progress you've made. Really. At all. If you are enjoying it, that's great. If you're finding there are things you can't do yet, that's even better.

Like the old saying: it's not the destination that counts, it's the journey travelled to get there.

Keep travelling.

Afro
case211  
1 Nov 2011 19:40 | Quote
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How good was I after 10 months?

...Not very.
nullnaught  
1 Nov 2011 20:40 | Quote
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Shouldn't that depend on a lot of things?
case211  
2 Nov 2011 13:02 | Quote
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Not really, I mean, I could make a few chords and play somewhat of a couple of songs, but I wasn't very good until about mid way through my Senior year(some 5 years after picking up the guitar)--that's when I started to actually make leaps and bounds in my abilities.
MoshZilla1016  
2 Nov 2011 16:28 | Quote
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I sucked but back then I could say "I've only been playing for ten months" now I have no excuses for sucking.
V3N0M3333  
3 Nov 2011 05:33 | Quote
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gshredder2112 says:
At 15 months I sucked,@40....I still suck.


LMAO I just noticed you put this.....dude you definitely dont suck!!!:)

I remember around 10 months of playing, I had just kinda got the major and minor sweep patterns and i thought i was the sh1t lol.....so i went to sam ash to play in front of a "crowd".....one of the most fun times ever 'cuz I sounded soooo bad. The crazy part is that I turned my amp up LOUD back then at sam ash, but since i got better and can actually play, i had become more of a punk and started keeping my amp so low that i could barely hear it.

........good times that i'll never forget....ever
JointChiefOfFunk  
3 Nov 2011 18:10 | Quote
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I was complete ***e
thatguitarguy  
4 Nov 2011 13:53 | Quote
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I've been playing for 5 and 1/2 years and I still suck.
RA  
5 Nov 2011 08:45 | Quote
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I was bad then and I'm bad now, as long as Coltrane, Bach, and Monk, exists I'll be horrible forever so I don't even bother thinking about.

It's better just to set goals and get them done, really it is the only thing one can do; that or sit around all being depressed or haughty, both being a bottomless pit for the soul.
luthier  
5 Nov 2011 09:34 | Quote
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I wasn't very good and I really don't consider myself good now. I'll never stop learning new stuff.


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