Motivated by a recent comment on one of my older posts, I decided to share a burden that I've been struggling with for some time now.

I picked up the guitar about 2 years ago and first bought a cheap classical, no name, guitar that served me well in my early days of playing. After 6 or 7 months I invested in a quality steel string guitar. Soon I almost discarded that classical and focused on playing the steel string one. But recently I became quite fond of the classical sound, especially in playing classically arranged rock songs (like Ozzy's Dreamer for an example).

So you may wonder what's the dilemma, what's the "difficult" choice?! Well, because of my job and other obligations I only have about an hour a day for the development of my guitar playing skills, and I believe that you will agree with me that with an hour a day it'll take ages to get to a proficient level. Lately I simply can't decide which guitar to play, on what to focus. Should I play the classical one, and perfect my finger-style playing on nylon strings or play the steel string one, and develop the pick techniques?! On the other hand, after a while on the nylon the steel becomes quite painful.

 So, I'm stuck between two worlds, as you can see. I've been combining the styles for a while and having considered the amount of time, or better said, the lack of time, I've noticed that I made no progress at all.

That's it! Feel free to share an input, advise or just comment..what ever suits you best :)

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