I am a total beginner... I am learning in mid-life, but played piano and violin. Have also mixed sound for live shows, and had an old arena sound dude tell me I was too picky. So I have a good ear. The guitar is so fun and so complicated, that I am enjoying my shittiness and every dumb little accomplishment thoroughly! I bought a Gretsch resonator because it was beautiful, and I had the shop guy strum it a bit, and it had a warm full tone to it. I don't do it justice.