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Guitar lessons of life

I have loved music for as long as I can remember.  I only learned to make music much later in life, though.  I started playing guitar when I was 13 years old.  I remember clearly how I didn't make progress quickly enough (to my liking) and stopped playing after only a month's worth of lessons.  I started playing again after a couple of years. I also remember how there were some exercises I didn't like doing.  These were usually the menial, low-excitement exercises that didn't sound like my favourite songs, or any other music, at all.  I just wanted to play the songs that sounded nice, the exercises that would leave people in awe of my skill, the things I was most comfortable with or the things I deemed necessary. Thankfully I learned, through teaching others, that we all need to have the basics down to grow in playing guitar, or to become better musicians.  Without a solid foundation of theory, being learnt through tedious (at times) exercises that...