How can i learn playing guitar on the internet?

Question:i cant take guitar lessons so i thought that there might be some programs or videos that will help me. any suggestions?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: i cant take guitar lessons so i thought that there might be some programs or videos that will help me. any suggestions?

It's always best to have a teacher in the beginning. As already stated, this can help keep you from learning poor technique that can cause injury. That being said, there's only so much a teacher can do.

I think of a teacher as being like a guide. A guide can show you the route to take, but he can't make the trip for you. It's up to you to make the trip (practice).

The site listed below will show some hand positions and that sort of thing and will help get you started. Good luck.

Youtube has videos to learn guitar. And just general reading material on the net will explain how to learn.

The previous answer has it right ... there are lots of sources but you can't learn playing guitar on the internet ... you can only learn how to learn. To actually learn to play guitar, you have to have the information (how to tune the instrument, the concepts of chords, where to put your fingers, how to "play" the strings, etc.), but then: practice, practice, practice!

Practice is the only way to learn the guitar.

Poorly.

You can't take guitar lessons why? Too expensive? OK, but many self-taught guitarists get the finger and wrist positions wrong and they wind up with repetitive motion injuries. A good friend had carpal tunnel surgery last summer--both wrists. Can you afford that?

You should be able to find a guitar teacher--try putting a note on a bulletin board at a local college's music department and see if a guitar major will teach you for a price you can afford. You'll only need a dozen lessons to correct your fundamentals, and after that you can rely on books, videos, websites. Just about all of them are useful--I'd look for books and videos on ebay or in used bookshops, and I'd try to get a lot of options and try them out, discarding (reselling?) the ones that didn't work for me.

As a beginner, you might want to know this practice tip. At the outset, practice many times daily for no more than 10 minutes at a time. Every week, extend the time a couple of minutes, then eventually reduce the number of practices, until you're up to a single session of an hour or more. This plan yields faster progress at first, and it builds stamina in a way that is unlikely to cause tendinitis or blisters.