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It is indeed all part of the learning process - you'll get the momentum back.
I remember being frustrated because I couldn’t nail barré chords. Now I can’t imagine how I ever couldn’t do it. I can’t even force myself to play them as badly as I used to.
But I don't think that's typical. There are lots of people here who'll be able to tell you something positive. And (so I'm told) there are far more useful learning tools nowadays than there used to be.
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For me it became meditation. I played to silence the voices in my head and instead only heard music. Guess that's what kept me practicing all those hours. 30 yrs on its the same effect today.
I find new and exciting ways to play them badly - It sometimes feels like a golfer's swing, subject to continual finessing and news ways to screw up the bleedin obvious
By the time YouTube really took off I realised there’s always going to be someone better than you. I decided I was good enough and it was more important to write my own stuff and have my own style. I doubt I could play some of the stuff I used to now, but I’m not bothered cos I just enjoy playing.
"There's a million people better than you, why bother trying?".
You run the risk otherwise of burning out on the intro, getting bored of it and walking away not having completed the song. Years later someone asks you to play something on guitar - you start the intro to Tears and get as far as the first verse and ...stop!
Tears is fingerpicked (thumb and 3 fingers?) and there's a bit of thumb over the neck action going on as well as some barring. Quite advanced for a beginner.
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Everyone learns different in absolutely everything, If we didn't, we would all be the same.
you could turn each small bit into a daily exercise to warm up before working on something with a faster return . I’m sure if you list some players you like people on here can give you examples of songs that are a bit quicker to get under your fingers so that you have a party piece you can pull out of your hat when you tell people you play guitar