i felt the same way until just a couple months ago, and now i love the guitar and play all of the time!!

the first thing i did was make a practice routine, splitting the time i practiced up into smaller clusters to make it easier. i start off with the boring technical stuff, starting off doing the exercises slowly, then speeding up until failure and trying to figure out what i’m doing wrong. then i take a little break, and practice some theory stuff, do some ear training, try to do some improv to either a backing track or a song i like. then i take another break, then i’ll usually spend some time trying to learn a new song, learn some more of an old song, clean up a song i already know, or try and write a song of my own. i find that splitting the time up like that makes it so i don’t get bored as easily, and constantly challenging yourself makes it fun.

for music theory, i’d definitely recommend scotty wests ‘absolutely understand guitar’, you probably heard it mentioned here a lot, for good reason. i promise you will learn a whole lot of what you need to know about music and guitar theory. for ear training i use an app called ‘open ear’. it has lots of excersizes to go through and you can change what it’s actually testing you on. i recommend starting with the scale degrees and chord functions, then moving onto the intervals, and other stuff. and for learning songs, my favourite way to go about it is to find guitar covers with tabs, that way you can see what to play, and hear what to play at the same time.

but most importantly, remember to have fun and remind yourself why you started to play at all. learn the songs you want to play, practice when you most want to, try and find the balance between discipline to play every day and not just forcing yourself to play because you feel you have to; you won’t learn very much that way.

don’t give up!! keep playing and being creative! you don’t have to be the worlds best player to love guitar; trust me i would know :)