Comments on: guitar?

By: Aspailin

Aspailin — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:10:14 +0000

At the beginning I learn myself. If you wanna play for fun. There is not really needed to have a teacher. Here is the way how to get fun with guitar.

1. Tune up your guitar in standard tunning. You need to have a chromatic tuner which is very easy to work with. Its important to make your guitar stays in tune !

2. Buy a chord chart and put it on the wall.

3. Try the easy chords like C , Em , Am , D7 , F ( try to strum down-down-up-up-down-up-down-down-up and change chord)

4. Look for somesong you like. Download the chord and lets play.

One day you get serious with guitar then go to school to have teacher, but for fun I think there is no need.

By: jhbates3

jhbates3 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:58:48 +0000

i learned on my own, and it only took about a year. my best teacher was youtube.com. just visit the site and type in beginner guitar lesson.

By: Matty 2 Tears

Matty 2 Tears — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:38:20 +0000

well i tought myself and really i think that that is the way to go in the begining because you have to push past all of the obstacles yourself and in the end you will see if your a true musician at heart if when the dust settles you’re still holding your axe. ok maybe that was way to poetic for this circumstance but really its true. i mean i started on a crappy classical guitar and i pushed passed the quality and all of my family telling me to stop playing because i was sooo bad. however now im better than some people i know who have been playing as long as i am with lessons. anywho i didnt mean to brag so here is my advice:

i have been playing for 3 years now and now im considering lessons because there is a point where you get stuck because you have discovered all you can by yourself. however, i would like to think at least, that i am a pretty smart kid and reading books watching videos and such just made sense to me. i got waaaay better from chilling with other musicians. i dont even have to know what they are playing; but for me just seeing what they are playing and looking at the patterns of their wrist and hands make me think differently. but you may not be the same way. some people need to have someone there to show them exactly what they are doing. also the good thing about having a teacher is that if you ever loose sight of guitar you know that you have to practice because if you dont then you are just waisting money on an instructor.

but really in the end, no matter what ANYONE says, guitar is not that hard to get a hang of once you change your mindset and your fingers are ready to cooperate. it only took me a year and a half to really understand what that instrument was about. everything after that, for me, has been learning to play the kind of music i like and creating my own style of playing.

i hope this helps. i really honestly do because with the very deepest parts of my soul i know that the world NEEDS more musicians and i hope that you choose to make the steps required to join! good luck!!

By: saint dani.

saint dani. — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:52:07 +0000

u should just learn basic power cords and palm muting then learn to play some green day or nirvana somethign thats easy than once u get used to that u can start looking at chord charts and get used to the positions. and ur pretty much set. some lessons wouldn’t hurt tho.

By: Patrick W

Patrick W — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:33:44 +0000

It is very possible to teach yourself. Don’t believe me? Jimi Hendrix and many other guitarist taught themselves. Here’s how I taught myself. I bought a book to teach me chords and learned all the diferent chords. Then I looked up guitar tabs for some relatively easy songs (like Iron Man and Smoke on the Water, as for the website is THE place to go for tabs) and learned them, gradually learning more difficult songs. The trick is to learn something new every day and the internet is great (if you don’t know a technique youtube is great). A really good thing is to have a friend that is better at guitar then you, because then if you don’t know something, they can help you learn it. Once you get the hang of the basics, you really take off. Honestly, if you practice a bit every day, you should be playin songs within the first few weeks. I really hope this helped and if you have anymore questions, email me at

By: Jimmy Page

Jimmy Page — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:19:18 +0000

I’m Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. I learned on my own. It wasnt easy but if you work hard enough you’ll get it eventually. Try getting some lessons if you dont pick it up on your own. I started on my own in a situation much like yours and here I am now, a famous guitarist. Hope I helped e-mail me with any questions.

By: Scyfer

Scyfer — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:06:13 +0000

Hi there. I bought a guitar too not too long ago, and i want to learn too. I took about 12 or so lessons and learned my finger positioning and some useful chords. After I finished with my lessons i started to play guitar tabs that i found online (I was taught how to read tabs). Today i just find good guitar tabs of songs i want to play and i practice them, so my suggestion would be to practice and not to lose determination because that is what you really need. So good luck with your guitar and yes it does get easier as you go along. Have Fun! Contact me for some good tab sites.

By: chessmaster1018

chessmaster1018 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:29:02 +0000

If you have that book and still are not getting it maybe it would pay to have a few in person lessons so that you could have the things that you don’t understand be explained to you !!! Maybe looking at a few guitar sites would help, here are a few, see what you can pick up from these ! (click on the guitar)
If these fail to give you what your looking for try youtube and type in learn to play guitar, I know that they have some sites about learning guitar, good luck, hope these help, bye !

By: risingguitarhero

risingguitarhero — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:47:55 +0000

Lessons are fine, if that’s what you want. The best thing however, is to find someone who plays a style you like really well and get them to teach you. If you have a friend, for example, who’s really good, what they show you could be more useful than a whole bunch of lessons with a teacher you don’t like.

Another thing- listen to the guitar music you like to play. Play along however you can. This helps me a lot.

By: cconsaul

cconsaul — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:11:13 +0000

Almost nobody learns all on their own. We all have teachers, informal mentors, heroes that we listen to and copy until we get that lick just right. It is perfectly acceptable to get a teacher and shows excellent judgment on your part. Remember that the a plagiarist copies from one person while a genius copies from thousands of people. Truly wise people understand that by giving others credit for your accomplishments, you add their expertise to your own. I would get as many teachers as you can get, and I would make them as prominent as possible. In the meantime, a teacher is a shortcut to the basics. You would never think of letting a brain surgeon operate on you if he or she had not been actually shown how to do it by a mentor surgeon. You would never learn to “DRIVE” all on your own. You would usually be glad to have someone riding shotgun, watching out for that one crucial thing you forgot to do because it was your first time. (Look both ways. Check the mirror before you change lanes, use the turn signal)

I really don’t understand this do it yourself attitude when it comes to guitar. I want to be able to tell my audience that I was worthy enough to sit at the feet of the masters. When I say that I did it myself, I am really admitting that no one believed enough in me to spend time, and to make sure I had those extremely important basics under my belt before I displayed either my talent or ignorance to the world.

I wish you well, no matter what you decide, but at least try the teacher route. Who knows, you may end up like me, being a teacher, wanting to share what you know with students who seem to think it is better to do it themselves!