I got my guitar when I was, 16, and to be honest, I probably should've gotten one earlier. I played Saxophone in the High School band, and I was good at that. and now I'm going on nine years since that purchase. And when I think of it, I just get sad, and angry. At myself, and at others, but a lot at myself, specifically my stupid left hand. I still struggle to move some fingers independently of each other. I thought I needed a finger exerciser, turned out that was the opposite of what I needed, more muscle made them slower, what I needed to do was stretch them, and that's not exactly an exact science besides pull on them back, until they hurt a little bit because then you stretched the muscle. So when it heals, in theory it has more reach? So now I'm in an attrition fight against my fingers to get them to stretch. I've learned like 2 songs since buying rocksmith which was like, 2 years ago, Rebel Rouser, and Let's Go by the Ramones, and I find out the thing my uncle told me about learning C was crap because no songs are in C, and the only songs in 2 chords are AC/DC songs, and I don't want to play AC/DC I wanted to play the Who, and prog rock, and metal, then I learn Brandon Small apparently hates sloppy guitar players, and what am I EXCEPT that? I want to quit but at the same time, I don't. I want to shred it.
Any advice? Should I buy some materials, chord books? Go to some lessons, stretch my fingers more, maybe work out a little bit? Come back to it. I remember that when I get sick of Saxophone, I would play the guitar a bit, and then when I'd go back to Sax, I loved it, and vice versa. Maybe I just need to go back to that for a while. Or maybe, I should buy that grestch I was thinking of getting, or an acoustic. I'm at an impasse. I feel like I was better, back when I didn't even know how to play those two songs. Has anyone else gone through something like this?