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Question: How hard is it to learn the guitar!?
Im thinking about learning to play guitar and was wanting to know how hard it is to learn the insterment!. Is it worth my time!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Guitar is not too difficult to learn to play moderately well!. If you want to become a virtuoso, ALL instruments are equally difficult at that level!.

How to learn:

1) Get lessons from a good teacher!. Best place to find a teacher is the music department of a nearby college--if you can hire an upper division guitar major, that's often cheapest, otherwise ask the department for a referral!.

You need lessons because, for new guitarists, somebody knowledgeable needs to watch your fingers and wrists and make sure you're not holding them wrong!. If you don't get your fundamental technique corrected at first, you risk forming ruinous habits that can halt your progress early and, in the worst cases, can cause repetitive motion injuries!.

After about 3 months of lessons, you should have your technique right!. Then you can continue lessons if you like; or you can go the cheaper and slower route of self-education by using websites, books, cds, videos, and other guitarists!. You should get lots of different materials (buy books and media on ebay or at a used bookshop to save money); some materials will work for you and you'll profit from them, the ones that don't you can discard (or re-sell)!.


2) How to practice: at the outset, try to practice for not more than 10 minutes at a time, 4 to 6 times a day!. Every week, extend the duration of one or more of those sessions by a couple of minutes!. When you're up to a 20 minute session, you can start reducing the number of practices!. When you're past 30 minutes, increase the duration by five minutes weekly!. When you're up to an hour, you can quit timing yourself!.

This plan yields faster progress for the beginner!. It also builds stamina in a way that reduces the risk of blisters on the fingertips or tendinitis in the wrists!.

After that point, practice for results and not for minutes!. Practice sessions should regularly include scales and arpeggios, fingering drills, speed drills, other studies, performance pieces, and sight-reading!.

One way to keep things lively and to keep improving is to mess around with tempo and rhythm!. Try playing your exercises and scales very slowly, then as fast as you can, then with varied rhythms!. Try playing your performance pieces the same way, and if you're really creative you can shift a piece that's in a 3/4 time signature into 4/4 or vice versa!. If you have difficulty with a passage, try playing it in different rhythms--all triplets, all dotted-eighth/sixteenths, all sixteenth/dotted-eights!.

And when you sight-read, do it in the spirit of utter abandon and complete fun! If you make horrid mistakes, laugh at them--sight reading is the one time when you can do no wrong!.

There--I think that's everything I know!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It all depends upon how much time you're willing to give to learn the instrument!. For most, learning the guitar is a challenge to their motivation, self-discipline, and willingness to go beyond the painful fingertips!.

Take lessons from a professional instructor to see if the guitar is for you!. You will not learn how to play simply by watching a CD or guitar hero on television!. You must apply yourself and stick with it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The 2 previous posters have given you very good answers about how difficult it is to learn guitar, to which I will add only that the guitar is one of the easiest instruments in the world to play REALLY badly, and one of most difficult in the world to play really, REALLY well!.

Only you can decide if its worth your time to learn to play well, or if there's something else you'd rather spend your leisure time doing!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

its not hard if you willing to do learn how to play guitar!.!.!.

also!.!.!.you need creativityWww@QuestionHome@Com