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How hard is it to learn to play the guitar? I have always wanted too and thinking abut giving it a try. Any advice would be appreciated.

Practice, practice, practice. You'll get the hang of it. Lot of decent websites and YouTube videos

My best advice is download or buy an electric tuner.Soon as it gets outta tune and you can't tune it you'll quit playing.Other than that just ALOT of practice.I started trying about 6-7 years ago.I learned alot and could play a good many songs but these last couple years I ain't played much and have forgot alot.It's fun when you start learning a few chords.

It's funny you should ask this, because I just started playing again after a long layoff. I was never a good guitar player and I'm even a worse singer, but I have played at parties, around the campfire and with friends and it was always well received.

I'm self taught and am going to work harder at my picking on blues and bluegrass stuff this time.

A few words of advice:

1. Get a decent guitar. It doesn't have to be expensive, but it does need to play well. A guitar with a crappy fret board can really ruin the experience. I recommend Applause guitars. They are the Korean made version of Ovation and play quite well for a very reasonable amount of money.

2. Find a good buddy that plays that can show you some chords. Get a guitar chord poster for reference.

3. Learn the basic chords and practice several times a week. First on making the chords correctly and later transitioning between various chords that go together. G-C-F or E-A-B or D, etc...

4. Next go to one of the Tabs sites on the web and print out simple songs that you like and you can play. Practice on a few songs until you learn them and then add songs to your playlist. There are many guys who can pick up a guitar and play "stuff" like rifts and junk like that, but not a whole lot that can play entire songs. If you want anyone to listen to you play, you need to be able to play some real songs and play them well.

5. You need to pick the guitar up on a regular basis and at least play a few things before you put it down so you will continue to get better. Challenge yourself.

6. Download a guitar tuner app for your smart phone, it will make keeping your guitar in tune easier.

7. Take some lessons. Tell your teacher what you want to accomplish and get him to help you to those goals. But do all the other stuff first and then get some instruction once you are a little familiar with the instrument.


I have this guitar and I love it. It is a fret board more like an electric guitar than an acoustic one and the sound is very bright. Just a joy to play...

Applause Guitar

Just remembered. Learn your chords. Start with basic easy chords and progressions (G-D-Em-C etc). Find an easy 3 or 4 chord song and play it till your fingers fall off. When you can seamlessly move between those chords, add some more or chord variations.

Once you got the strumming and chords down then you can move on to stuff like picking and more complex things.

Thank guys for the good advice. I'm gonna do it and I will let ya know how it goes.

Just download guitar tuna on ur iPhone...free easy tuner...keep with it! Ur fingers hurt bad at first but play through it! Soon you will get calases and it won't hurt! Then just practice a lot and pick a song you like and just learn it!try to learn a song that is really hard but learn it slow and steady and by the time u get it down, many other songs will seem easy! I love it and have been playn for over 4 years now...taught myself through YouTube...also ultimate guitar has great chords for songs!

Farmer, did you get my PM?

If I can play, you can too lol

yes I did

Patience and practice, be prepared for sore fingers, but they will tuffen up pretty quick. Biggest thing I could tell you play at least a few minutes everyday.

It helps to have someone to play with too. I learned from tabs and YouTube and struggle playing with other people esp if there's percussion, but after 15 or 16 beers I sound pretty darn good!