Even though I'm just a novice on the guitar, I see that the secret to playing is......
developing the strumming hands. For months, I've more so concentrated on the left hand, for chords but after really watch some guitarist closely, alot of what they do is in the way they strum the guitar.
Uriah has that strumming video in which he show how to get different sounds out of strumming high, low, etc.... This really opened up the way I thought about the guitar.