I asked my wife of 10+ years of she could go get some strings for my wife’s classical guitar today, because I wanted to start paying again after a long depression. I’ve finally got some of my artistic side back.
Set the new strings and started playing. I couldn’t remember much from 25 years, but after a little while, my wife asked “How long did you play?”, because I was better than she thought I would be. Maybe because she’s never heard me play. Don’t get me wrong, I fucking suck balls, but I do remember some tabs. Hopefully, I’ll get better and not give up.
I started learning about a month ago having never played any instrument. There is no way around practicing. Luckily even with this little time I already see improvements. It’s far from great but I can see getting there of I keep at it. I’d say take it down from the wall and do a little bit each day. You’ll be surprised how far you can get in only a few weeks time.
Edit: for me it helped going straight to practising whole songs. I’ll probably get to the technical basics some time in the future but right now I stay with songs that come to my mind and sound like they should not be too hard to learn.