How many of you play guitar? and what kind of?

Question:How is the experience been, and have learned all by yourself of from a teacher.

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I play guitar, it saved my life and I learned by myself. I like acoustic more, sounds nicer.
I have a
-Old harmony nylon guitar
-30 year old hondo II acoustic
-acoustic yamaha f-310
-solid cherry jay turser electric
-electric ibanez rg series
-acoustic mirage wg-881tc

i do... Guitar Hero

i play electric occasionally. My brother taught me how

i do,

electric.

i've learnt from a teacher and it has been awesome

Me guitar hero! and i rock

I'm teaching myself to play a Fender Starcaster Electric guitar. Sometimes I look up tutorial vids on youtube. But I pretty much learned a lot in two weeks. The most important things are posture and making sure your guitar is in tune.

acoustic

I play acoustic...not very well but just good enough to sing my favourite songs.

No teacher...my family and friends are musical so I've watched them and then taught myself.

I am beginning lessons on an acoustic guitar.

I haven't had a teacher but i play acoustic and love it!

I started out on mandolin, and had one lesson from Sandy Nassan, one of Joe Walsh's guitar teachers! (back in those freewheelin' days, I ran into him in a park and he just taught me for free). Turns out luckily to have been so good it was the only lesson I ever needed.

Afterwards I picked up tips from members of a folk-music club and eventually got my first acoustic, a Gibson b-25. I used to practice singing old English ballads while watching soap operas, the better to teach me to keep my attention on something other than the guitar while still playing it right.

Now, I'm a multi-instrumentalist, and it took me another 20 or so years before I got the guitar brand I really wanted, Ovation (OK, I know, some guitarists think they're better used as cricket bats) and I started more focused practice again, this time paying lots of attention to Segovia's "Diatonic Major and Minor Scales for the Guitar" and refining my barre techniques. This, and a lot of electric bass playing around the same time, got me to the point where I could play some leads.

Now, another decade has slipped by, and I've revised myself musically again. Looking toward retirement, I want it to be easier for me to travel around. So I've gotten a nice little Washburn Rover backpacker guitar with a Fishman under-bridge pickup installed--doesn't quite have the sound of the Ovation but really good for a backpacker, and plugged in it sounds entirely decent--and my electric is a Brownsville, a little travel model the same scale as the Rover. Add those to the Ashbory bass that I got several years back, and it's now often possible for me to carry the whole shebang into a gig in one trip from the car (and I don't need to take the minivan anymore) :-)

i can play an acoustic guitar!!!

I have played acoustic for 40 years. Mostly self taught, but a crash course in finger picking from a professional. It has been a source of great enrichment in my life - go for it.

Acoustic guitar -- used to do a lot of solo fingerpicking. Then I got into old-time and bluegrass music and now mostly play either fiddle or banjo -- but when I play guitar now I play rhythm with a flatpick.

Taught myself to play guitar out of books starting at age 13 (I'm 49 now!)

I learned on an old LG-3 parlor Gibson acoustic from a fellow drawing down 11 chords on a sheet of paper. The same man gave me rhythm tips, but other than that, I am self taught.

Learning to read and write music notation in high school was the impetus to advanced playing. I delved heavily in music theory by writing and notating about 150 songs--none published.

Had I kept all the guitars I had purchased and sold during my Army career I would have around 50 additional ones to the six I now own. During my professional years while in and out of the Army I played my electric Gretsch Nashville, a double-cutaway Chet Atkins model. (It still has a great, warm sound to this day.)

Later, I used my J45/50 Gibson acoustic to sing and play at retirement and nursing homes, schools, and parties. I much prefer playing an acoustic guitar because of the discipline it takes plus the warmth, natural sound it projects--which led me to eventually get the guitar I had long searched for--my Martin HD-35.

Currently, I teach guitar to those willing to shell out $12 a half-hour and play occasionally with others that focus on old Country Gospel music. It's not that I love the old Gospel tunes--it's because I enjoy playing music with someone else other than playing for walls and rocks as I live in a rural area.

i play acoustic ......i just got a new guitar for christmas but im a beginner......im right now learning from a dvd while trying to find a teacher because i heard it wayyyy better that way ! so far it rockss and im definitely not giving up on it .....im beginning to see its takes alot of practice and hard work!

I play the acoustic and electric guitar. The experience has been wonderful. Lean from a teacher really depends on the teacher and the student. I had a teacher for 4 months but she wasn't very tolerant with me making mistakes and well I didn't appreciate it for the fact that I was doing my best. After that, I sort of quit. I've always have had a dream of being in a band and I decided to learn "the easy" way with just power chords. After that I realized my high school offered a guitar course which I ended up taking. So basically this is how I see it... teaching yourself is fine if your just learning songs from other artist but if your planning to write your own music, etc you should get a teacher because you'll probably end up learning some stuff about music theory along.

I'm self taught all the way but and mastered it pretty well. I can read, write for big band, etc....compose and teach it.
I studied 15 hours a day....if that is any indication. I have an old '63 Gibson Les Paul Gold-top., and a few others.

im learning currently but I play Bass