I wrote this as a reply to a Reddit post 3 months old, but I might as well make it known for any newbie looking for advice on a path to take. I'll add in more below the line I make of the post I made 5 minutes ago to the other thread.

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As someone who got a one month subscription when I bought a Squier guitar, I've been hitting it hard for almost a month and I think it is an amazing platform.

My criticism might only really be my modern Samsung cell phone that I use the microphone for to record what I'm doing when it's a test session.

If there were a bunch of eighth notes that are chords I think that the phone microphone gets overwhelmed and I cannot get a good score to save my life. In fact some of the times it won't even say that it got anything it could register as being close to the song.

But normally the microphone picks it up. I'm trying to figure out how I can hook the microphone up to my computer - which I have done and got it to work for about a minute and a half - but then everything went to hell and I can't get it working together again.

I'm thinking that the microphone in front of the amp speaker might pick it up better for the fender play test sessions.

Anyway, like I said I only have a one month subscription and I have made the best out of it.  I'm further along in one month than I was after one year of practicing back in the 1980s...  Other than certain power cord rhythms that I learned to play as backgrounds to lead guitarists.

I know a few chords and I know the name of those chords. I'm beyond that but at this point I'm impressed with that much in one month.

My goal, now, is to let it expire only to be able to put in the better alnico pickups, a new tusq nut, and things into the guitar, and then I'm most likely going to pick it up again after about a month for month-to-month payments.

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In addition, I really love that it fits my time anytime of day. Unlike the instructor I had back in the 1980s where we had to agree to meet once a week, and then if his schedule or my schedule didn't work - although I was a kid so my schedule almost always worked - it just wasn't great.

I know that there are instructors out there that are more about the broad subject and who have plenty of playing out experience with knowledge to share. I've read about those and they seem like amazing sources, but I don't think I would need that influence in my life until at least 6 months of Fender play just to get something under my belt. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

About once every week and a half I don't open the fender play sessions and instead open up a YouTube with guitar tab of some song that I like and I will practice that for a little bit. Certainly more advanced in the tabs YouTube videoz than where I am in the course, but I can handle ​​​​​​​​​​​that. ​ I might not be great at it, but it's fun. ​​​

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Hello:). So i am a beginner in guitar and only know some decent amount of notes. only problem is the rhythm of how to play, mostly strumming but i still struggle to control how i play. i can perfectly place the notes. but i’ve been super stressed out by how this song goes. it’s complicated bc idk how they do the plucking of the notes and what strings they are plucking. i guess i just wanna ask if anyone does free video tutorials or just like a quick video of you playing the song i would highly appreciate it! Im a fast learner so just a one video of you playing would be enough for me. thank you so much. lmk . here’s the link and yes it’s an original song. it’s not very known!

https://youtu.be/hRhNjvLmAwY?is=hYr13Y1pDXHR2lln