Do you like guita and is it easy to learn?

China
September 12, 2009 9:29am CST
I am 24,and I want to learn guita to write songs for my love,but I haven't learn yet..
8 responses
• United States
14 Sep 09
Ok, here you go man... Guitar is easy to learn. The hardest part, aside from the memorizing chords, which is pretty easy, is enduring the buildup of your calluses. Once you learn the chords, you can repeat them up and down the fretboard, and you're good to go. I have been playing, recording, performing for 15 years now. I play acoustic, electric, and bass. Start with the acoustic. It will help you build your calluses faster as the strings are more rigid and sturdy than on an electric. Once you get fluent on the acoustic, move to the electric, and you will find out easy it is to let your fingers fly... Enjoy, and good luck! (If you have the money, I recommend Taylor guitars...the sound is amazing for the price...and as with many other things, you get what you pay for, so keep that in mind...the more you pay, the better the sound will be!) Dive Deep!
• China
15 Sep 09
you are great!
• Singapore
12 Sep 09
In my opinion, guitar is one of the easier instruments to pick up, although it takes a long time to master like any musical instrument. I'm a self-taught guitarist as well, and picked up from listening to lots of music. It takes just a few weeks (a few hours a day of practice), before you're able to strum along to simple songs. Learning an instrument is quite fulfilling especially if you're a music lover. Writing songs on the other hand is quite difficult I think! I have tried before but failed miserably :P Perhaps someone more competent would be able to give you better advice there.
• China
14 Sep 09
Be confidence and writh the song!
@gerald_lian (2188)
• Australia
12 Sep 09
As a young child, I learned piano as an instrument through formal lessons; I got really good at it but then I thought I wanted to learn another instrument and the guitar just sort of caught my interest. And so I started picking up the guitar from my friends at church and I fell in love with this instrument - easy to make up a tune and it is one of the most mobile instruments to carry around (at least much more so compared to a piano! ). Anyway, when I first started on the guitar, the initial phase of learning the chords and fingering were the most difficult because everything seemed new and unfamiliar. But once you practice with them and get used to it, things will become easier and you'll progress faster. So with no formal guitar training, I can now play the guitar quite well. I can strum, do a bit of plucking and I can play bar chords too. I am trying to master plucking but I think I might need more guidance on that. But all in all, go ahead with the guitar; it's an instrument that will never let you down!
• China
14 Sep 09
I envy you to master the piano!I think piano is very very fatasitic!I will learn guita this year For I am busy recently..
@adiel35 (69)
• Indonesia
12 Sep 09
Guitar is the most music tool that usually used by song writer to create songs, so i think you are on the right way if you plan to be a song writer, because guitar is a simple music tool and easy to learn if you have willingness , effort anf of course patience to learn playing guitar, and then you can play guitar : )
• China
14 Sep 09
When I make it,I will inform you..And I hope the day comes earlier..
@rg0205 (2636)
• Hong Kong
12 Sep 09
I've been playing since I was 14. It wasn't hard for me to learn. I am a self taught guitar player. It takes time and practice like anything and it's never too late to try.
• China
14 Sep 09
Thank you!I will try~
@zwm0426 (30)
• China
12 Sep 09
yeye, I this that guitar is not so easy to learn, but you can only play a tone when u sing a song, and just keep that rythem, and you can be good at singing with guitar. But if you wanna singing with guitar in a good music, i hope you can have a good learn,ok! It's easy, if you can learn it hard.
• China
14 Sep 09
That is a good idea..but the point is you are clever and insist it.
@ImNotFish (106)
• Singapore
14 Sep 09
Guitar is an easy to learn instrument but its hard to master. But don't worry friend, just venture out your first step and you are a guitarist! Guitar is one of the music instrument that helps in songwriting (another instrument is piano), you can already start to write a song even if you know only 3 chords! All you need is perseverance and hardworks, and there you are. Writing the first tune will be hard, but once you completed it, you will feel happy and satisfied and eventually the next song would be easier :D
@Tantrums (945)
• Philippines
14 Sep 09
Learning the guitar is not that difficult, as long as you perceiver and follow the rules of the 3 P's (practice, Practice, Practice). To make you feel better, Eric Clapton started to play the guitar when he was 18, look at him now, Guitar god status!