Just to add to my other comment, rocksmith is awesome if you have the reflexes for it. Otherwise, songsterr is great too. For learning strumming patterns I’d say relax your wrist and make sure your strap height is comfortable. I keep mine raised quite a bit to be able to hit high frets with ease. A lot of guitarists will disagree with me but use a thin pick and light strings.

Also, as I said in my other post adjust string action and practice everyday. I’ve been playing since I was a teenager and I play all styles of music. My forte is advanced lead stuff but my advice works for rhythm guitar as well. I’d say if your goal is rhythm you may be drawn to thicker picks, thicker strings, and lower strap height, but it’s really about what feels comfortable to you.

Also, if you have any interest learning fingerstyle you may want to start on a nylon string guitar. I used a guitalele at the beginning and the difference in comfort blew my mind. Now I only play steel string acoustic when I need to record fingerstyle acoustic stuff, but there’s a reason nylon strings are great for beginners.

If you need more advice about anything else guitar related just hit me up. I love passing down my knowledge.

No problem dude! Have fun and if you need more advice feel free to hit me up.

The E B E section is the most common chord shape you’ll see as you learn. It’s the equivalent of a power chord on a guitar. If you want to get fast with one hand get used to keeping your thumb and pinky about an octave away from each other. In this instance that means the low E and high E.

Your instinct as you hit each note might be to use your thumb pointer and middle and move you hand but it will help you down the road if you get used to looking at the individual notes as a chord keep you hand in place as you hit eat note in the chord. In this section I would think about it like A B E is one chord. Then E B E is one chord going up then back down with the same fingers then move you hand into a B E B shape to hit the last 2 notes. Does that make sense?

Oh yea that’s a tricky one. You want to keep your right hand in the chord shape as you hit each note. There are different ways to do it and it’s entirely possible to do with one hand however if you use a sustain pedal you can hold the low note using the pedal and use both hands for the rest.

Maybe you’d like these more:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=49e7gZ13-oA

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vpCwRryy0kk

You can find simple arrangements of almost anything.

Otherwise just keep at it man. You’ll get there if you keep practicing.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QY5SWHMPwI8

This is the easiest version of One Final Effort I’ve found. Not super hard, but not beginner level. Keep it and try to play it slowly at first.

As for other video game songs, look into Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger, older zelda stuff, older pokemon songs. Things like that would be better to start with. Really anything slow that you’re already familiar with.

A few of the VG songs I used to learn were

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOOkfDXw0jM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1lKGxoAlNhc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kkUryy_DRSI

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2gaAEiq2vgQ

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OJnhg3QNe_M

Try to think of stuff like that to start. You can find tons of these easy sheets for free if you look around too. Although I did pay for musescore until they started charging me extra with no warning.

For me it really helped finding arrangements of rock/metal, punk, and pop stuff. Some video game music too. I’d say try to find simple arrangements of your favorite songs. I’m no expert, but I’ve been playing almost daily for 5 years with no lessons.

I got a computer science degree because I got into computers as a kid and I was good with them. When I apply for a job it feels like like I’m competing with half the planet. It took 2 years to get the current job I have at an MSP and I’ve been applying for new jobs for a year now. I can count the times I’ve been contacted by recruiters over the past year on one hand. There’s plenty more in my boat. If we’d known we probably would have had a different major.

I did labor before landing a job with an MSP by the way. I’m in my early 30s with back, neck, and hand problems now and pain that radiates into my hips and legs. You don’t get out of labor jobs unscathed.

Unfortunately, I’ve worked with a lot of republicans in my lifetime. Hating overpaid CEOs and thinking insurance is a scam are 2 of the only things I’ve seen republicans and democrats agree on. Good fucking luck convicting him.

No this only proves the misogyny ingrained in the US. We will never allow a woman to be president.

I’m just speaking from experience growing up in churches. The people who would go to church and only behave because they think God is watching are the people trying to get their reward from it. I’ve known some really decent people, but they were very rare. The majority were there for themselves.

The thing is I’ve seen many of those same people keep the rhetoric, but leave the churches for the most part.

I think they’re thinking that people like them are in the majority and they’re trying to incite the most desperate or violent racists to start attacking minorities under the cloak of darkness. I’ve worked and spoken with crazy right wing assholes my whole life. They’re the type of people who would easily murder or rape if they think no one is watching and they can get away with it.

The funny thing is religion used to reign a lot of them in. The true believers actually felt like God watched their every move, but most church goers don’t even really act like they believe the shit they spew anymore.