We live in an age where most people do not feel the need to learn to play a musical instrument like the guitar. But if you learn how to play the guitar you will be doing yourself a favor in so many ways. Until you have begun guitar lessons you do not know the feeling of engaging with a musical instrument, learning how to use your body and interact with the guitar to make music.
The common questions most beginner guitar players ask are, "How hard is it to learn to play the guitar?" and "How long will it take before I start making music?" To take the first question first, it is kind of daunting right at the beginning when you have bought your guitar, found some sheet music or guitar tab, and in that first moment as you begin, you realize how much you do not know. From there it gets easier. You practice for half an hour or an hour a day, you get some callouses on your left hand fingertips and you get into the routine of learning easy guitar chords. Every day you practice you feel some progress.
As for how long it takes before you start sounding good on the guitar, it varies but you could say three months. If you practice regularly you can go from a guitar no-nothing to someone who can play a song all the way through, in time, without stopping three months from now. If you do not try the three months still goes past but you still do not know how to play the guitar.
What do you learn in this first three months of guitar playing? Making music entails learning guitar chords and how to read musical notes in the form of tab or sheet music. You will probably learn to play an acoustic guitar with nylon strings first to give your fingers a chance to toughen up and to learn to play without the sound of an electric guitar covering up your mistakes.
The acoustic guitar also has the advantage of quietness. When you first learn to play the guitar you do not want to make enemies of your friends and family as you make your first, possibly un-musical sounding efforts to play. With an acoustic guitar you can also take it anywhere with you to practice in a more inspirational setting or when you get a break from your work or studies.
A final point I should touch on is the question of learning to read music. There is so much guitar music in tab form on the internet these days anyone who wants to learn how to play the guitar should be able to get along quite well without learning to read sheet music. In fact it would be hard to find a guitar course that relied solely on sheet music. If you are young and feel some enthusiasm for learning music theory, you will probably get enormous benefits from taking the slightly longer road to learning how to play the guitar, but if it all seems like too much trouble, you can manage without it.
The next step for you now is to find some easy guitar songs and some advice on how to hold the guitar beginning to learn how to play.
By: Ricky Sharples
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