Looking for a Guitar Teacher?

Can't play guitar for my life?

• So a few years my grade 8 class was offering a free guitar lesson class so my parents bought me a little acoustic guitar for that class. We never really learned anything that year mostly because the teacher was a first year playing guitar as well. Now grade 10 I wanted to learn the guitar so I started looking up some songs and can pretty much only play Wonderwall. I thought I wanted to completely pursue it so I bought myself an electric guitar. I learned a few little things on it but pretty much nothing. Last Christmas that passed I could tell my parents were really pushing me to learn it by giving me stuff like guitar straps, picks, books and a video game called Rocksmith. I started playing the game and thought it was alright but now I got to the point where I just rage quit the game because I can't play guitar for ****. Every time I play the guitar and try learning something new or whatever I just get really angry because I can't do anything on it. I think I've just given up on guitar. It is something I would love to learn but I just can't do it. Answers, suggestions please? D:

• Answer:

  On top of what "a guy" said (he basically covered everything), if you plan on getting far in guitar now, do all of the boring stuff now. I made the mistake of skipping out on my scales and mastering the fretboard and it slowed my progress down. So, with what a guy said. Memorize the fretboard and most basic major and minor scales, plus some chord positions. It will help you out a ton later. But you really don't NEED to learn any solos, and i wouldn't recommend trying a song way above your skill level, as it will only hurt your confidence in your playing. But i would reccomend taking 2 months worth of lessons