Starting Guitar, people who play guitar or did once plz.?

Question

Ok I got a ton of questions so just answer the ones you want to.

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Is there any good guitar places to get lessons at? Whats the place? Could you add the price for lessons too?
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Is learning to read notes hard? How long does it take?

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Is learning to play the guitar hard? How long does it take?

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Only answer the ones you want to thx.

Answer 1

I take guitar lessons with my pastor's wife, so I dont really know about lessons...
I don't think it is hard at all. I learned three chords in the span of two minutes.
I have only been taking guitar lessons for five months ((once a week for five minutes)) and I am playing for church services and other assorted things. Not hard at all!

Answer 2

I have some good answers for you:

-- check out www.nextlevelguitar.com first, as they have a ton of video lessons and material, a lot of them for free. To join it's around $100 for a year. The guy is a great teacher, and his videos will show this.

-- check out craigslist.org for your area and look under 'Lessons' and see if anyone is advertising guitar lessons. Starting out you will need someone to show you some things in person and for them to evaluate how you'r doing certain things. Later the in-person teacher will be less impactful, but playing with someone is always a help.

-- Are you playing an acoustic or electric guitar? Acoustic is harder to learn on because it is more difficult to fret the strings (they're thicker than what is on an electric, and they're farther from the fretboard, so you have to press down harder on them).

-- Guitar is not 'hard', it just takes a lot of work initially to train your hands and fingers to be in the right place at the right time, all coordinated between right hand and left hand. Then it's up to you, depending on what type of music you play, as to how long it will take for you to sound 'musical.'

-- Don't worry about learning to read 'notes', as in music notation style. For guitar, tab is the standard (professional session musicians are pretty much the only ones that can read music notation). Tab is easy to learn to read.

Good luck, and stick with it!

Answer 3

For learning guitar, I personally don't think you need to learn to read notes! I learned to play guitar by ear!
How long it takes, depends on the person, some people learn real fast, others like me take a lot of time, determination, and constant practicing!

The only hard part about learning to play guitar, is getting your fingertips to playing until you get callouses on them, after that it's relatively easier!

Answer 4

I compare learning to read music to learning another language, but easier in my opinion. You just have to want it. It took me a couple year to read fluently. Then there's all the other terms to learn like.. alegretto, largo, moderato ect it's not to hard if that is what you really want.