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Carl King
GuitarTricks Video Director
Joined: 10/08/07
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Carl King
GuitarTricks Video Director
Joined: 10/08/07
Posts: 466
06/16/2020 8:07 pm

Hey Jeroen,

Sorry to hear you're feeling stuck. It happens to all of us!

It can often help to change your focus to a different idea and come back to your em / C / D / G chords. You might find after changing gears you'll make some unexpected progress, and it also helps refresh your enjoyment of the process.

This happens to me all the time with everything, to be honest -- and changing things up always seems to solve it. Burnout is no fun!

I don't know where you are in the Fundamentals courses, but maybe try switching to simple scales or something else for a little while? It might be that the em progression you're focusing on is too big of a challenge right now, with so many finger changes and big chords. It's hard to tell without seeing an example of your playing.

Because of that, you might want to take a one-on-one lesson with one of our instructors to help get you out of that rut, see things from a different perspective, and get you excited again. Every time I take a one-on-one video lesson I feel better. Hope that helps and message any time.

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-Carl.


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