This fellow says, "Decided I was fed up with bass guitar, and warr guitar for that matter, and packed them away under the bed. I have this niggling feeling that the Warr guitar isn’t worth the practise. It is a somewhat confused and odd instrument (same goes for the Chapman Stick of course). Sure, you can do some truly epic basslines, but hmmm.

"On the other hand, my 'I’m fed up of playing music' mood only lasted a day, and then I decided to try and relearn the ‘cello again."

Well, gee, Riadsala, while I absolutely love the sound of cello ... here's a suggestion about the Warr Guitar ...

If you’re not having good progress, it might mean that the way you’re proceeding is not giving you adequate reward. Maybe.

So I’d ask two questions –

(1) Do you have it with the bass strings tuned in fifths, fat string in the middle, like the Stick folk do?

(2) Do you have a copy of the free fast-learning method book that Mobius Megatar gives away with the free newsletter subscription?

If your answers are “yes” and “no,” then I would suggest that you consider a two-part suggestion –

(a) Go to http://megatar.us/NEWSLETTER and get the free newsletter and free method book; and

(b) Retune your Warr Guitar bass strings into fourths as shown in the book. (The book actually works with either tuning, but fourths is way easier to make fast progress due to mental clarity; you’ll see what I mean.)

If you do this, and then engage in modest but regular practice, I predict you’ll make way more rapid progress … confusion will vanish … and you’ll have way more fun.

-- Traktor

However, at any age, the practice of music is really fun, and with application and a smart approach, your progress can be rapid. (If you are learning two-handed touchstyle technique, you can get a free book that reveals the method simply by signing up for the free tapping newsletter here: MegaTapper News.

If you're working on your own, one of the approaches that can help a lot is to focus on the "key essentials."

A very interesting and simplified approach is described on the How To Play Music website. He says:

"I started to place things into groups and finding common occurrences between different things. I eventually came up with a few (not a thousand) groups. Each group however contained hundreds of different variations to various things. I soon figured out that these things are organized into several subjects, each subject containing a certain formula. I now know, that most of music theory, consists, of four basic subjects. These subjects are:

1. 1. Scales
2. 2. Chords
3. 3. Arpeggios
4. 4. Approaches"

"Everything else is less important, or can be classified under these four subjects."

The purpose in learning music is to play songs or to compose musical pieces. Breaking it down in this way can make the subject easier to approach, and this leads to greater mastery in a shorter time.