I feel discouraged when i play guitar

Try learning something hard... You only get better by trying to play something that is 'currently' out of your experience depth, eventually you will start to get better at it, try playing for more than an hour a day. (fight the feeling of defeat) There are so many things you can do on a guitar just have to learn them. Try listening to guitar music that (I know this sounds weird) doesn't sound great but involves a lot of technical skill. I've been playing guitar for 17 years and I've come to realise that improvement comes in waves. Learning to play something might be impossible one day but it'll just click a day later. Learning to skip string sweep literally killed me for a good 4 months but it eventually just happened. Keep practicing and you might get addicted :)

Yeah, it's normal.

Yeah that's normal.

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

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.

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.

Its called influence...and well...you being critical is really you being an artist. Im that guy too and ive been playing melodic death metal for 20 years. Try backwards power chords...it give a somber tone... or a different standard tuning.

It's totally normal. Everyone gets frustrated with their hobbie/passion/whatever at some point or another. The key is to never give up and to play because you enjoy it, and it makes you feel good not beacause you want to be the best at. Those people do exsist the "competitive" people and I can be one of them (most of the time :P) but the whole point is to just be happy!

I feel like this when I draw or paint lately. I think it's a creative block. Maybe you could take a break from it so you get your passion back...or you could collaborate on a song to get more inspiration or motivation. Just remember to have fun, and don't take it too seriously.

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.

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

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.

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