Haha Tod. That was a typo since I’m old and half blind anymore. “Fender Play” gives you a free trial when you buy a fender guitar but I never used it.
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The guitar or the freebie ? … 
Blimey, that was a marathon read … 
… all helpful comments 
Listened to Fleetwood Mac, “Go Your Own Way”, on my TGIF drive home … just a thought 
Keep having fun … 
Hi Nick & Welcome to the Community!
There are a ton of backing tracks to be found on YouTube but I’ve never searched for “guitarless” ones per se…
What I use (& I know some others here as well) is Moises. It’s a paid subscription with varying levels that you can use to remove different parts of a song track. I remove the vocals & guitar to play along with songs & it works pretty well… I’ve only had it for a few weeks so probably have barely scratched the surface of the built-in capabilities.
Keep it FUN!!!
Tod
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you can create you own schedule if you want but often , justin tells you how much time you can spend on an exercice
for example in module 4 :
or module 10
its in the last video in each module 
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The freebie. I play the fender all the time and love my strat lol I just did “Basket Case” not too long ago with it and posted here. Basket case Summarizes my life lately haha.
Ohh right. I think I misunderstood you, then, haha. Yeah that stuff is in the app as well at the end of the modules, by “schedule” I was meaning at a higher level along the lines of “You should do these exercises x times per week, and after y weeks you should be good to move on.”
Though this also goes back to my initial post where I’d been doing that and then suddenly ended up at the end of module 2 with this laundry list of stuff that I apparently didn’t actually know as well as I thought I did. 
Oh man, I just watched this and it’s absolute gold. Thanks so much!
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Okay, I went through the “SWOT” process, and have my mind map/goals set up, let’s see how this goes. 
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It’s an admirable plan, but I think music (including theory) does not necessarily have to be that mechanical or like a military drill. I mean, “Be able to fill in the blank major scale worksheet within two minutes” - does it matter if it’s 2 minutes or 2 minutes and 36 seconds? You’ll find that since each “letter” can be used only once and - provided that you list the scales in the order of the circle of fifths/fourths - that once a note is sharpened/flattened it remains the same, the filling of the table will become a mere physical exercise in writing out the alphabet. I think understanding how the major scale theory and formula are intertwined with triads and more complex chords and chord progressions, and putting that into practice are more valuable in the long run.
Also, as it seems to me to be a plan for a whole year, I’m sure you’ll learn to play much more than the C major scale, for example; there are major scale patterns with no open strings, i.e. they are movable up and down the fretboard, and “the” open position of the C major scale taught by Justin is an extreme but very user-friendly example of pattern 3. Move each note up a fret and you’ll be playing the C# major scale. And then there are the minor pentatonic scales which can be used in so many circumstances.
Anyway, I don’t mean to be negative. It’s all about having fun and learning at the same time. I wish you good luck with achieving your goals.
That looks like a SMART chart with goals to me.
don’t forget to review your progress each x months to see if something isn’t going how you thought it was going to go and figure out why that is.
Nothing wrong with adding details later on as well. Upgrading the goals as you progress is no crime either but try to place enough “checks” first, to confirm your improvements.
Remember that this is a guide for yourself.
As @Jozsef pointed out; don’t read it as a law but as a plan.
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Nick, for your first song book, especially if you want digital, I would recommend The JustinGuitar Easy Guitar Songbook: 101 Awesome Easy Songs You Can Play with Up to 8 Open Chords available on Amazon as a Kindle Edition, that I read on my tablet via the Kindle App. It is just Grade 1 songs and is arranged by modules to match the current JG lessons and has chords and lyrics and multiple suggested strumming patterns.
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Sure, but I need to start somewhere and with something concrete to aim for at least to begin with. This is definitely going to get revisited as I go to see how things are coming along.
Yep, undoubtedly! The way it’s like this is entirely from @LievenDV’s video he linked above, about making sure the goals are achievable and realistic, but also that as you learn more you’ll realise how much you don’t know. A whole lot of that stuff you’ve mentioned are things I don’t know anything about, so I need to get the stepping stones to get there in the first place.
Cheers! I’m feeling more optimistic about things now.
Yep, that’s the plan! 
Haha absolutely. For those worksheet ones, I put a number down just so I’d have something to aim for, and I can build from there.
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