How Long Does It Take to Learn the Electric Guitar?
Posted in learn guitar on 26. Apr, 2010
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Question: So i’m a 14 year old boy teenager who is looking to buy an electric guitar(going to learn threw videos and books) i was wondering how long would it take to get the hang of it?
Answer: The written music for electric and acoustic is the same. The big difference is the playing technique. Learning to read music is difficult if you don’t have a music background. And that will make learning how to play a guitar a bit difficult too. But, you can learn to play without learning how to read music. It’s called, ‘playing by ear’. Many people do it. It’s fun. but not professional. And if you want to play just as a passtime and for fun, I would advise you to buy a cheap, used, electric guitar. Nothing too fancy. Learn on it and then decide if you want to go further. It would be a shame to spend big $ on an instrument and then give it up after a couple of weeks.
Like everything else it depends on how much time you spend and how seriously you take learning and keep up the lessons
it depends, you can keep practicing and essentially "learn" it pretty fast. a year, 2 years, mabey even less. you can spend your whole life actually learning new things about playing it though