Originally Posted by: haghj500Learn your basics before you move on. I use to have a 1 hour lesion every Saturday morning. As I remember D and C was my first two chords. That's all I had to practice so that was my week, making and letting go so those chords. Next Saturday I got another chord because I had D down. It was boring!!!! But in about 2 months I could make the shapes, not so they rang right when my fingers landed on them, but my fingers knew where they were going. F and Bm took longer.

While all that " " <-- insert you own word(s) .................. It's worse not being able to. This is truly one of those things that the longer you put it off, the longer you hinder yourself.

I use to play a lot of songs I really didn't enjoy playing, but watching the crowd react and enjoy it was cool. So I started to enjoy them, kind of surprised me.

I have to agree with Rich... Playing something, anything really, to get the crowd moving would be awesome. But even so, I just know I will never be satisfied with just playing covers. Then again, lots of successful bands have played covers. In fact, I can't even count how many bands I know that started out with playing lots of covers, so I suppose I should just settle for playing covers to begin with. I'm going to try and find a few songs that give a good over-all idea of what kind of music I want to play, and then learn to play those songs, and find someone who wants to play the same kind of music and take it from there. On that note, I'm still in the process of exploring my style, but since my tastes in music are pretty wide (from Blues to Hair Metal is a pretty wide array of genres, I'd say). I think the list of songs that define the kind of music I want to play is going to look pretty awesome :) Let's just hope I'm not the only one who wants to play the kind of music that's going to end up on that list :)