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Learning guitar, most of us will hit a series of plateaus where we feel our progress has leveled out. This is normal for most folks.
The way to break out and start getting better at a more rapid rate is via new material, new artists to emulate and new musical projects to get the old excitement boiling again.

I would like to teach my 7 year old grandson guitar. He is interested in it but his fingers appear to be too weak to hold strings down hard enough and his arms are a bit too short to reach the first fret.
I would like to show him something he can build on.
Any suggestions?

Hi youngfella16,
There is not that much to this song.
It starts out in F#minor then it breaks into :
F#minor for two beats
D for two beats
A for two beats
E for two beats
And goes like that until the end.
If you can make the F#minor with a six string barre on the second fret and your ring finger on the A or fifth string-forth fret with your pinky on the D or forth string forth fret, you can go from there to D,A and E chord.
Rock on,
tooter

I identify with this song more everyday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJDNsJEnWqk

I much prefer to play guitar through a P.A. system.
I have a small 200 watt Peavey driver with four channels pushing two Audio Centron speakers with 10 inch woofers and a horn in each. The system has reverb for vocals and an effects pedal for guitar sounds great through it. It's all you need for a single act in a small bar.
Later I bought a Peavey 6000 - 300 watts with 6 channels and speakers with 15's. Good for larger rooms. This system can handle a whole band in a larger venue except for bass.
Five years ago I bought a 24 channel Mackie mixing board and six JBL EON 300 watt self-powered speakers. This setup will light up half of a small town and EON speakers can handle moisture better than speakers with wooden cabinets.

Kenny Oystein Baadsvik is from Norway but has studied and teaches (gives clinics) in many countries including the U.S.A.

Years ago I walked into the band's dressing room at a local bar and found our boss and lead country singer passed out on a matress with two three hundred pound groupies.
These ladies were "coyote ugly" meaning a guy would gnaw off his own arm before waking them up in order to roll them off his arms.
I woke him and he managed to extricate himself without waking either one up.
I wish I had had a camera but I found ways to gig him about that for years. He didn't care as long as wifey never heard about it.

This song was a gift from me to the three groups of kids we played to this Christmas.
I wasn't hard to learn but we can only use it at this time of year.
The kids dug it.

http://www.minibite.com/christmas/hippo.htm

ApeDoctor,
I would like to recommend this guitar song by a man from here on the Guf(Gulf) Coast who many of us here regard as a local treasure.
"Is there a Heaven for Balloons" is a song Gove wrote that is a good relatable for those who enjoy "Kites are Fun"
Gove uses alternate tunings a lot but brings two axes to a gig to lessen guitar pulling to new tunings.
Looks like he's using an open "E" tuning on this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi9baSw4dPk

I find many guitar players rush the tempo as well as drummers.
A good drummer must "take charge" of the tempo and insist the group stay with him and be consistent for the group.
It is so easy to get excited and rush. Playing alone doesn't help.

I played tuba with John Reno today for 2nd and 3rd graders at a local school. This is our 9th year to do this.
I googled words and music for "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas" and tried to talk John into singing it for the kids.
He told me to take his guitar and sing it even if I had to read it. The kids would like it.
I did. They did. They sang along.
That was fun. I appreciate good advice.
We have upcoming concerts at the Montessori School and Women's and Children's Hospital this season.
I'm fired up enough to play and sing it for those guys too.
Why not?
We only live once.

I had a request but we decided to keep playing anyway.
I had a request but the microphone won't fit.
That last song is from our " " C.D. that recently went plywood. That's a big step up from cardboard.