(OK, I searched there were 194 threads with guitar in the title). Now there's 195.
I have been playing on and off for some 20 years. I learned just before the internet became easy to use. I would pull tabs off of Usenet and the UNLV archive using FTP. It was a pain in the ass. Kids have it too easy these days. Anyway...since my kids aren't babies any more and I'm afraid to wake them up, I have been playing a little more.
I play both acoustic and electric. I wouldn't ever consider myself good. In fact, I would say now, that while I'm "better" I'm less confident. So, I don't really have any desire to play out. I don't have time to find a garage band and I don't have time to get out for lessons. I also probably have a ton of bad habits that I don't want to reveal.
Acoustically, I'm all rhythm and chords and what not. I'm OK with what I can do there....no finger picking.
I play such that I can sing (poorly) along and have an all right time with it.
Electric, I like to go down the basement and thrash (not actual "thrash") around and make some noise. I can do a some riffs, but I like just monkeying around. Lately I have been pulling up "more difficult" songs and trying to play with some of the tabs I find online and the record. Just a little at a time to see if I can get it to sound similar.
When I started playing, I would mess with CDs and figure out the songs so that I could have some fun with it and occasionally type them in for the tab archives. I never had one of those "A to B" CD players where you could loop a section and really learn it. I have heard they existed.
Anyway, with I tunes and ipads and a real job with money, I can put the computer near the guitar stuff and afford new toys. I was thinking of getting some software or new toys to generate backing tracks or something so I could play riffs on top.
Mentally, I'm still stuck in 1992... the thought of paying for it well....
In actuality, I don't know what's out there. What kind of trainers or toys are available? I know there was a lot of stuff way back when, it has to be overwhelming now.