How Hard is It to Learn Guitar?
Posted in learn guitar on 27. May, 2010
What’s this week’s learn guitar question? Let’s dive straight in…
Question: How Hard is It to Learn Guitar?
Answer: i would turn the question around and ask, how bad do you want to learn guitar? how much time are you willing to put in?
Learning something new is a skill, how good are you at learning new things?
Learning the guitar is not hard with time and motivation. look at all the bands that play guitar, or all the youtube videos of regular people who play guitar.
not very hard… just learn the chords then learn how to read the tabs…. and i like Alice in Chains…
Guitar takes a while to learn at first because most people aren’t used to the tension. It hurts at first and it’s hard to hold your hand in the positions for chords but once you get the hang of it it is easy.
The guitar is one of the easiest instruments to learn, in fact most guitarists, even famous ones, are self-taught. That’s one reason why the guitar is so popular.
It takes a little while to get started, though. At first your big problem is that you have to build up strength in your left hand, the one that holds down the strings. You also need to build up callouses on your fingertips. So at first you can’t practice more than 10-15 min. at a time (but you can do it more than once a day).
Also, many ‘beginner’ guitars are almost impossible to play. If you don’t already play guitar, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference, you would think it was -you-. So it’s a good idea to take a guitar player along when you pick out your first guitar.