is playing the guitar hard to learn?
Zach E asked:
i really want to learn to play guitar. i have played piano and trumpet over the years but guitar sounds awesome. is it tough to learn?
7 Responses to “is playing the guitar hard to learn?”
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August 25th, 2009 at 5:24 am
no it not hard
August 25th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
no not really. its fun to do.
August 26th, 2009 at 9:02 am
ive taught myself and ive only been playing for less than a year… its wont be that hard, especially since u already play some instruments. Ur fingers will hurt the first couple times u play tho
August 29th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
The fact that you know about notes and stuff is awesome, the basics are easy to learn, but there is definitely challenge to it, and you have to be dedicated, im sure if you stick with it you’ll do good.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:37 am
Not for me.
–Eddie Van Halen
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:39 pm
its difficult, but worth the time. it all depends on your initiative and patients.
September 5th, 2009 at 7:43 am
no its not hard to learn, you can start off with acoustic guitar and some basic cords
Some good chords to start with are G, C, D, Am, Em, Am7, D7.
After you can play 5-10 chords, you can start practicing scales.
About 6 months in, it’s time to really focus on getting a steady beat and then playing more interesting rhythms. Playing a steady beat is much harder than it seems so don’t start with that.
If you are inspired to learn guitar because of guitar players you’ve seen, it’s a good idea to watch what they do (hopefully you can get some video of them) and try to do the same things yourself. This is more fun than learning from a book, although you can do that too.