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Any recommendations? Also seems like Page used drop D tuning in a lot of his stuff, is that true for most of their material.

Any beginners out there attempt a song that they thought would be difficult and ended up realizing that it was more a matter of sounding difficult to the beginner's ear than actually being difficult to play. I'm curious to see what others have found and been "surprised" by when attempting new songs...

This may not be news to everyone but if any of the beginners out there who are Pink Floyd (David Gilmour) fans, I've been working on "Wish You Were Here" and it's been an amazing confidence booster. It's surprisingly straightforward and I even went down the solo rabbit hole as well and that's been challenging but achievable. I'm just sharing a song that some might think is outside their capability but after a couple of weeks, I've been making some really good progress that's been huge for my confidence. Marty Schwartz's YouTube channel was my starting point and he does a great job breaking it down.

I've been taking electric lessons for about 8 months now (weekly) and I'm pretty pleased with my progress other than things that I think a lot of newbies probably get frustrated with (speed, etc). My question is: I'm a person with a regular full time job, kids, grandkids and lots of things that keep me busy but I do try to find at least 30 mins a day to practice...sometimes more, sometimes less. What is a good practice "routine" that at a minimum I should be doing when I do practice. Right now, it consists of tuning, some warm up "spider" exercises on fret board to warm up and then it kind of devolves or evolves into whatever I feel like. Sometimes it's a song other times it's more theory based stuff (I guess the not so fun stuff but still important like fretboard memorization exercises). Should I have a consistent, go to couple of things that I do EVERY time I pick up the guitar? What worked for you guys or should I just keep it informal?