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Old April 7th, 2008
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From your description of your recent progress I'd say you're at the point where the majority of learners give up. Good thing you're prepared to stick at it.
I think your goal is too general.
From what you've written I'm not sure what sort of music you want to play. Try to expand on that for us if you can because it makes a difference when you choose what to learn next.
In the meantime I'd suggest you write down all the songs, riffs scales or whatever that you've tried to learn and then play them one by one making sure you can play them well. Then congratulate yourself on how much you have achieved. If these tunes don't interest you any more, then I think you may have to redefine your goals, and really spell out exactly what you want to achieve with the guitar. Many learners keep changing direction because they're not really sure what their goal is. Wastes heaps of time and leaves them depressed about the whole deal.
Teachers tend to quiz learners about where they want to go, and then keep them on track.
I don't pretend to give you all the answers in one post, but if you keep examining your goal, and sharing it with this forum, then sooner or later you're going to be heading exactly where you want.
You will learn heaps of chords, but as you need them for the song you want to play. Scales will come too, in time. Probably when you think you need some sort of mindless warm up exercise. When you do learn them you'll be surprised at how much extra understanding you have of the fretboard.
And by the way, don't put the rest of us to shame by learning too fast. If you know what I mean!!

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