For many years I wanted to learn to play the guitar and this summer I had my first lesson at a former musician at almost 58 years young. He asked what I wanted to play and it was Lyin’ Eyes with Eagles and Phantom 308 with Tom Waits from an interview, At The Scene '73, just before he became famous. So my first chords were C, Am, F and G. The easy F where first finger is on string 1 and 2, second on string 3 and third on string 4.
Took my daughters guitar with nylon-strings, swapped the strings since I am lefthanded. Looked at the drawings of chord C, strum, Am, strum and so forth. After a while I was able to put it into a sequence. But trying to immitate TW’s strumming is not easy, so I made up my own strumming. When I learned these chords I also realised Lyin’ Eyes was further down the road. And also began to listen to my favourite-music differently. Then looked for tutorials online where Justin Guitar was the third I visited. I owe much of my skills to these lessons being free. Later bought a subscription for iOS.
Francis Cabrel have the beautiful Je t’aimais, je t’aime, je t’aimerai which I then aspired to learn, but strumming is hard. Then I heard Peaceful Easy Feeling with Eagles, and that have an easier strumming. So I slowly but surely progressed. In the meantime I bought a lefthanded accoustic guitar with a much better sound.
The iOS-app is very suited to how I like to learn, first I played Peacefull Easy Feeling at normal speed, but that was way to fast for me. So I slowed it down to half speed and was somewhat able to follow along. After a while I increased the speed, struggled a bit with the chords. But lately I have rehearsed at normal speed and this is quite enjoyable even though the joy is still greater than the precision. 
Then Justin released the Wish You Were Here video, and man, that was awesome. I watched the video, learned the basics in level 1, and it took a while before I was able to move to level 2. I haven’t gone beyond this but is playing the intro until the rest of the song begin, and this is very rewarding.
The more I learn the better I get at knowing what is within my reach and Have You Ever Seen The Rain with Credence Clearwater Revival is a dear favourite at the moment.
I finished the first beginner module and did most of the practice but at the moment I mostly play WYWH, then CCR and finally Eagles, each 3-5 times. Just bought a PRS SE electric guitar and have an ambition to learn some songs from Eric Claptons Just One Night live-album from Japan.
I still go to my local tutor every 3’rd week since he is able to give some immediate feedback, very nice hints, why scales are the way they are etc.
Pardon for this lengthy introduction. And thank you for all the free videos that is a great way to empower us. Take care.
