I think most people learning to play guitar have trouble with timing, how to stay on a consistent beat and how to properly phrase things to make music interesting and appealing.
I learned to play by playing with records so I could figure out how they were getting their sounds. I found that interesting players use all kinds of chord variations. By playing with records from my early days on the guitar, I learned to keep a beat when playing by myself because I was already playing with professional level players on these records.
The thing that I learned later in life that can make guitar playing even more interesting is that you don't have to play all the strings. You can play triads, you can play pieces of chords all over the fretboard and these approaches can really set a person free to do fascinating things on the guitar. A person does not have to be a prisoner of first-position chords, nor does a person have to play all barre chords when you are playing chords up the fretboard.
- Glenn
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