Like I said earlier in this thread, do what you can do well at least some of the time as a reward for pushing yourself to imprint the new stuff...

BTW, I've played many a private party in my day and you wouldn't believe how many people come up to me and say, "Gee, I tried to learn guitar but I never got anywhere with it..." to which I say...

"Well, if you can half-way sing I can have you doing a song in 5 minutes..."

I've had a few of them take me up on it and I find a quiet spot with them and show them how to make a 1st position Em chord which everyone with two fingers can do and then I show them how to just strum down the strings (no back picking or struming, just simple down, down, down over the strings with their fingernail... Then I give them a couple verses of Bob Dylan's "Ballad of Hollis Brown" and...

...WALAA!!!

They are doing a song and accompanying themselves on geetar...

The lesson here is that "even a caveman" can do it...lol...

But really... Just imprint a few songs that you find easy and add to them... No one was born knowing how to play these things...

Good luck and if it ain't fun, don't do so...

...make it fun!!!

B~