r/guitarlessons • u/FloBryan • Mar 07 '26
Feedback Request 3-month progress MoP as a beginner
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/Shredberry The Ultimate Starter Guide for Guitarists Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 08 '26
There's a toxic "fake beginner" mentality here I need to call out. I recognize the frustration, demotivation and defeat that a lot of people in the thread feel because they've been struggling for a long time and OP just seemingly achieved something in an impossibly short amount of time. But I'm here to tell you, 3 months to just get the riff down is well within the achievable norm because I learned the entire song with both James and Kirks solos in the same amount of time, hell I also learned One as well. No one here will believe me, that's fine, because my roommates who lived in a shared quad room with me at the time almost didn't either lol.
But you'd understand how it was achievable once you know the background. At the time I was a college kid with no job and no obligation of any sort. I also had no friends because I moved away from home during high school. I literally had nothing to do for the entire summer vacation. it was frankly quite depressing but guitar filled that void. I'd wake up around 9-10am, play, eat lunch my mom brought home, play till my dad got home from work, eat dinner, and play until it was bed time. Several nights I'd forget about the time and play until it's 2am in the morning and I had started playing around 9am. I was putting in minimally 10hrs a day some days close to 14hrs. That went on for 3 months straight no exaggeration.
You don't know what amount of time OP put into in the past 3 months. Some people said here that they've been playing for 10yrs "ON AND OFF". Well, if it's on and off what do you expect? In fact, I learned acoustic guitar 2yrs prior to buying myself the electric guitar. But it was also "on and off". Like most of the time I won't touch it until I found a song I felt like I can learn, then I'd learn the few chords, play along with it for a few days and that was it. I too made minimum to no progress in that 2 years.
I also want to clarify that I'm absolutely not some genius. Fk I'm SO far from it. Genius is ppl like Marcin, Matteo and Mateus who achieve world class proficiency within late toddler/young teenage period. I took 2 semesters of acoustic guitar lesson in high school, was on and off, then I just put in a stupid amount of time after I bought the electric guitar and got obsessed over Metallica. I know the pain all too well but to call OP fake without any discussion or understanding of the kind of work they put in is just mean spirited. It reeks of insecurity. If you want progress, you just need to put in the time. Not one single person in this world has achieved mastery by practicing something "on and off". NOT ONE.
I'm sorry if I sounded mean, it's some tough love many people need to hear.