Great article edbird, thanks for sharing. Finally, at 41 I've decided to pick up my dusty acoustic ( that became part of my furniture grouping after years of sitting & staring at me!) and put some real effort in learning to play it. Got pretty inspired by my 16 year old nephew. Kid has only been playing guitar for 2 years & was jamming out 3 different Train songs in my sisters garage like he had been playing forever. Ukulele came next; bam... He's playing it like Don Ho! Now he's attempting Banjo. Very proud of him. While I am 2 weeks into learning and wish I had started earlier in life, here I am ready to take it on. FM is right...have to think like I'm in grade school again & try and soak everything in. It may take me years, but I will learn to play this thing!
