[Chaotic Kittie]

Too true... I'm going back to ultimate basics myself right now, working on stuff much like the very basic beginner stuff on this forum, and I've played for 1,5 years or so. Technically, I've grown a lot, I can do a s**tload of stuff... and yet I can't do them, because I didn't learn the basics properly.

For some things I guess I could blame my last guitar teacher, for not telling me I was doing wrong when taking chords. He was one of those never to criticize, always just said "that's very good" even though it obviously wasn't. Now I have to do those simple chord progressions that are the very first things you learn... I have to relearn to do them, and to do them RELAXED, which I never did at first.

So I can play a lot of technically hard stuff, but at the same I can't, because I can't play them relaxed. I get tense throughout my entire body.

Well, I don't really complain, I don't mind how good I am, as long as I CAN play.
Strumming chords with 1 strum/beat might not be so fun to practice at my "stage", but at least it's a lot better than not being able to play at all!