re: Resolved to learning to play guitar: advice wanted

A lot of good advice but the one thing that I don't see here is to find someone or a group of someone's to jam with once you have the basics down. After a year or so of taking private lessons and practicing alone every day you will hit a ceiling and feel like you're not going any further. That is, until you start playing with other musicians. Once I did that, my very basic guitar playing skyrocketed to another level as I learned so much so fast and eventually was able to hold my own and even played in a small band for a while.