I feel discouraged when I play guitar

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LOL. Everything that you can play has already been played. All you can do is add your own swagger to it. Good Luck.

Normal. Guitar is nice of course, but has become a pretty cliche instrument nowadays. You could try some alternative tunings & see if that gets you beyond the musical ruts.

For me, I can't sit down and write a song. I get inspiration at random times and go with that, but forcing it doesn't work for me. Everyone has a different process, just find what works for you. Besides, not everyone is a great composer, but you can still enjoy playing.

dude thats good that you dont think your good it makes you hungry and when your hungry you hunt. and feed. and the whole frustation thing is that you just started writing your own stuff you get beter as time goes on , and about the sounding like other songs thing thats just your sound man its an influebce ittle change and even if it sounds alot like another band fuckum its still your own music right , no one can take that fromyou man keep on rockn man

Don't take it so seriously. Just have fun with it. I understand how you feel. I used to try to make up my own songs on piano and would feel the same frustration...well that and I thought I just sucked. Don't be so hard on yourself, everyone is influenced by each other. Don't give up playing just because you think you aren't original.

You are focusing on what comes from music and not what it is to you, The love for guitar is to me like the love for a soulmate. You over look the flaws and work at the relationship between you two at your own pace together, learn what guitar is, understand it and ask yourself if you truly love it and music enough to want to spend your time on it. Don't worry about anybody else and how good that make it look. Just know that working at something you love will only make it stronger.

I love music and playing my guitar, I occasionally like everyone does eventually fall into a rut where it feels like you're getting nowhere but all you need to do is keep at it. If it gets too frustrating try to learn something else on or about the guitar and rest your mind so you can come back to it later. Try to set a schedule for 1 hr of practice a day if you can.

Practice Chords, Notes, Learn music theory, Strumming technique, observe your favorite guitar player on youtube watch what they do and feel the music. Its always good to start working on that ear by transcribing simple songs and only check tab sites if you're stuck

Yeah that's normal.

its normal, i feel it all the time when i animate: nothing feels original. I think of it as getting older/more mature and losing my imagination.