Beginner Guitarist - Seasoned Overthinker
I'm brand new to guitar- I've had one sitting in my room for awhile, but it's only just recently that I moved it off its beautiful shelf and down to where I'm practically tripping over it to help myself remember it's more than a prop. Today was day 6 of picking it up and spending 20-30 minutes strumming on it.
Only,, I feel lost. There's so much I can learn. There's so much I need to, but in what order? How do I know I'm doing it right? At what point does strumming turn into music? None of these questions are essential to learning to play, I think, but I can't stop them from taking up so much headspace.
I've currently got a schedule that gives me 5 minutes of warmups, 10 minutes of chord practice (currently A and E, switching between those two, and Em and Am. Is it unreasonable to expect to memorize A, E, C, D, and G by the end of 30 days?), 5 minutes for a technique skill (currently alternative picking, and my next goal is palm muting,, maybe?), and then 10 minutes to just noodle.
Please help, even if that's just to validate that I am, in fact, overthinking.