Learning the guitar and/or keyboard
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Any of you longtime guitar players ever see a question like this and take all the hundreds of hours you've spent playing for granted for just a split second? I've been playing for 20 years now and I wish every single person who wanted to do it could just do it instantly. But I guess most of the fun is the year after year after year that you work at it and devote so much time to figuring it out. I'm glad I was 14 or 15 when I started. Was lucky to be in a band in high school a couple years after I started. I mostly taught myself, being in band in junior high really helped with understanding music in general. Spent 5 years in college without a band finally learning to sing and play at the same time. At the most I have only known maybe four cover songs in this whole time.
Anyhow, here's your best resource: free time. The things that VectorMasked mentioned - practicing scales, learning techniques, trying to make things your own: do them as frequently as you can and don't stop. I don't play guitar at 34 now as much as I did when my band here in Chicago in my mid - late 20s and it was really in full swing, but it's funny how engrained everything still is - old songs, styles, etc. Playing guitar is still probably the one thing I spent the most time doing for my entire 20s. I can't wait for winter to get here; that's usually the one part of the year where I write songs the most.