Thank you for your responses. I'll keep what you said in mind. I too do not care for finger exercises and the only reason I do them is: a) I'm 42 and my fingers need a little warm up and b) I noticed that on the days I do them I have better practices b/c my fingers are looser. So, I'll continue as long as they appear to be helping me. As for setting up my guitar, I did have it checked out and repaired...and now it's much better.
As for songs, yes I'd love to play some, but I can never figure out which songs are supposed to be easy and what the strumming patterns should be. Any suggestions as to sites where I can find songs, etc. I would really like to learn finger style since I don't have a terrific sense of rhythm (naturally) and I can't sing worth a lick. I need songs that will stand on their own. I like country, folk, anything that sounds very acoustic.
Oh, not sure if I mentioned (probably in my introduction), but I took guitar lessons for a year ten years ago. My teacher had me work pretty much on songs only and it was so discouraging. It was a new song every week (thus new chords every week...not reinforcing the old and adding new) I couldn't keep up and was very frustrated b/c I had to learn the chords, the transitions, the strum pattern, timing, etc. It was just too much at once, so now I'm breaking things apart a little more and will then try to put what i've taught myself together. I'm at a point now where I'd like to work on some tunes as part of my practice routine.
Thanks again for all of your help.
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