This might be a silly question, but it’s something I have been thinking about as part of my own “journey”. As my limited post history shows, I am struggling to actually learn songs. I would say I can decently play along to a track, but if I had to play on my own… it would sound terrible and would be barely recognizable as the song. It definitely does not help that I get bored / frustrated / annoyed with a song so then I just move on to some other song. But it also got me thinking about mindset and maybe the overall reason why you play. For me, the desire to play guitar came almost from an “intellectual” point of view. I like getting to learn how things work and guitar provides an interesting challenge there. Combine that with the actual need to learn a physical skill for the first time since learning to ride a bike and you got a nice challenge on your hands (pun intended). But I never did this with the desire to perform, be a musician or be creative. Don’t get me wrong, I love music, love seeing live performances and I thoroughly enjoy seeing the videos of the community here. It’s really stupid, but it seems like I just lack the desire to make music, I just want to be really good at guitar. Part of this might be some subconscious stage fright or maybe I am just in denial of my desire to be John Mayer (or Luan 😉), but I just cannot seem to get over that hurdle. I even ask myself “why be good at guitar if you don’t want to really play it” and I just do not have an actual answer. I cannot help but think it does seem kinda dumb to go through all this effort for no real reason. Any advice or ideas there? I do thoroughly enjoy playing around with my guitars, but it seems like the lack of any “real” motivation is just keeping me stuck in a perpetual cycle of trying to find the next song that might make it click. Thanks for listening to my TED talk 😅

I'm starting first! Travelling Solider - The Chicks, Going to learn it but more importantly I want to get into my lyric practice routine of a morning session and afternoon session to memorise them.

But man it is soo helpful. Recorded using Ableton while I was playing along to a song and it is obvious where I missed the mark (pun intended) I was feeling like it was spot on, but guess not!

Let's get hyped for our 4th Feedback Friday which is me giving feedback to our community's posts live on stream! TO GET FEEDBACK: - If you don’t have a video you can ask a question in your comment. - Post a link to your video in a comment on this thread - If you don't know to share a video CLICK THIS LINK (You upload your video as unlisted video on youtube and share the link) - In your comment please state what area of help you're after, the more specific the better. - Do not make your videos longer than 2 mins. - Do not explain in your video I'll skip it and go straight to the playing. - I will watch videos by levels starting from highest to lowest: All level 4 students first, all level 3, etc. - To gain levels engage in the community with posts and comments, every like on your comments/posts gets you a point and points get you levels, it's a video game. - Refrain from offering feedback to others, only show support and encouragement. We will iterate on this as we learn more each week. The feedback will be shared on my youtube channel and timestamped for y'all to watch replays or catch it if you are unable to live. Can't wait to see your questions and performances if I can’t do this tomorrow I’ll do a stream asap and do it so please post your content :)

I’m curious how others learn new songs. For me I try to force myself to learn as much of it by ear as possible. It’s not the fastest way but it is good for ear training. I find that I can get most of a song this way but then there always seems to be one or two small sections, or even just one chord, in many songs that I can’t get and so for those parts I’ll use the internet (generally ultimate guitar app, sometimes YouTube).