[Rick Lee]

Play music you enjoy. I got stuck playing Mary Had a Little Lamb and Love Me Tender when I started and it made me not care about practicing. Nowadays you can go to songsterr.com, enter any song you can think of and the TAB is right there. It's not always right, but it points you in the right direction. Youtube is invaluable too. Also lots of junk there, but again, points you in the right direction. Once I got back into it after a few years of not playing, I was 13 and made Stairway to Heaven my first goal song. Yeah, it's cliche, but you don't see too many people playing it all the way to the end, note for note perfect. I got it down by the old "play, pause, rewind, play, pause" routine and can probably still bang it out. And that was long before the Internet. That exposed me to the rest of the songs on LZ IV, then I worked my way back to I and II, learned most of those songs and I was off to the races.