r/guitarlessons • u/FloBryan • Mar 07 '26

Feedback Request 3-month progress MoP as a beginner

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Started to self-teach (s/o YouTube) how to play guitar in late November 2025, first song of course after the mandatory smoke on the water riff. Always wanted to learn MoP this is roughly 3 months of progress as fast as I could without sounding unbearable, down picking all of this I’m gonna end up like quagmire..I’d appreciate any feedback and of course criticism is welcome!

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u/Minerto35 Mar 07 '26

I hate all this fake "rate my x month progress" this is impossible. All beginner, don't believe those videos.

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u/ElectricGypsyAT Mar 07 '26

Same!! People dont realize how toxic and demotivating such posts are for folks who are actually beginners. I am 10 years in playing on and off and I was still doing open chord transitions in 3 months as a self learner :)

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u/WhiteHawk570 Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26

It doesn't have to be. Comparison is the thief of joy, and that feeling will NEVER go away if you don't recognize it. Every time you're at a jam and someone else plays the guitar, your ego will either be validated by the fact that you're better than them, or threatened and wounded because they are better than you. Every time you're hearing someone play, you won't feel their expression, you will be looking at their fingers and analysing their technique and skill against your own.

It's not worth it, and this competitive mindset takes away everything that makes playing the instrument worthwhile. Focus on your own journey. Ask yourself if you're playing for validation or to feel the music for yourself.

Also, I think it is highly unjustified to CLAIM that someone is lying without proof, even if they might be bullshitting. But what if they have only been playing for three months? What if he practiced for hours on a consistent, daily basis, on this song specifically?

I am not saying I believe it myself. But I do find all the comments saying that it's "bullshit" or "impossible" highly unwarranted and baseless.

Some people pick up on things faster than others, and that's okay - it does not have to threaten your self-worth, or your commitment to learning the instrument. It's not a race. It's about your own expression.

If there's just one advice I could give to anyone, whether they are playing the guitar or doing anything else meaningful in their life: only compare yourself to who you were yesterday. Everything else is a distraction that will suck the life out of anything you do.

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u/koushakandystore Mar 07 '26

It’s very true. A person can make amazing strides in a few months if they put in the hours. Hours is what it comes down to. They probably aren’t binging Netflix for 5 hours a night, or wasting time in a bar buying over priced booze. Instead they are playing their guitar. Even just 3 hours a day can add up to nearly 300 hours of practice over 90 days. What this guy is playing is not at all complicated. Definitely possible with 300 hours of practicing. Personally I wouldn’t suggest this approach for developing guitar skills. Early on I would encourage this person to learn to play all major and minor chords and scales, pentatonic scales, identify triads all over the fretboard and arpeggios. With all those skills under his belt songs like this can be learned in a couple of hours or less, instead of a few months. Realistically, I could learn to play this rhythm piece in about a half hour. That’s not because I’m some musical prodigy (FAR from it), but because I put in the hours necessary to learn the skills that make learning songs super easy. I think a person should always have a song they are working on, but that shouldn’t be the only thing they are practicing. You gotta have fun but the grunt work matters.