How difficult is it to learn how to play the acoustic guitar?
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I am a complete klutz who can't hold a pencil without dropping it and I learned to play lead guitar in a surf rock band okay (NOT good, mind you, but ok) in 6 months.  I put in a LOT of hours but we're talking fast picking lead, not rhythm guitar.  I learned both on acoustic and electric.\n\nSo, I can quite honestly say if I can do it anyone can do it.  The hardest thing with an acoustic guitar (more than an electric) is buidlign your callouses.  You'll have to build up some major callouses and get so your left hand and right hand will work independently.  That isn't as hard as it sounds.\n\nThe truth is in this saying by the man Beethoven chose to teach his nephew:  "Practice is the great magician who not only makes apparent impossiblities performable, but ever easy."  Carl Czerny\n\nHINT:  Don't play too long the first couple of weeks or your fingers will get too sore from depressing the strings, even on a high end guitar.  If you put your hands in warm water and think your fingertips are on fire, you're practicing too long at one stretch.  Build up time slowly.\n\nHINT TWO:  Get really good strings.  They will make your life a lot easier and sound better, too.\n\nHINT THREE: Don't be discouraged by what seems like failure.  One day you'll suddenly make a giant leap and be doing something you thought you'd never get.  Then you'll level off and think you aren't getting anywhere.  Pretty soon you'll take another leap.\n\nHINT FOUR:  When you aren't playing, do "beats" with your hands against your legs, the arm of the chair, etc.  It helps you learn to keep time.  (This I thought I'd NEVER be able to learn.  Everyone always said I had to sense of rhythm at all.  Imagine how proud I was when I took up drums and everyone sat and stared at me because I actually had a really steady beat from months of slapping furniture and my body to anything playing on the radio!  YAY!)\n\nGood luck!
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Hi!  When I was first teaching myself how to play guitar, I tried to find some good sites to help me do that.  I found a few, (www.cyberfret.com was a good one), but ultimately, what worked best was just learning song-by-song and picking up more and more as I went along.  However, www.cyberfret.com will give you many basic lessons to help give you a jump start.
752741
E-mail  every guitar company possible and see if they have a school or training that you can take to learn the trade.\n\nOr take a look at any of the links below..\n\nHope this helps you out..
341379
I have one! It's pretty sweet but you need to take some time to learn how to play it cause it ain't easy!!!
1168419
A guitar which does not rely upon an amplifier to be heard is often called 'acoustic'. There are many different types of 'acoustic' guitars (including Spanish) and a huge variety of electric guitars.\nThere are also guitars which are both, called electro-acoustic, which can be played un-plugged or amplified. These instruments look, feel and play like acoustic guitars.\n\nChoosing depends upon which type of music you intend to play, and upon the size of your hands.\nA traditional acoustic guitar will have nylon strings (less painful on the fingers) but will have a wide neck and high action (distance between the string and fretboard) which is difficult for small hands. Unless of course you select a three-quarter size instrument. These guitars a ideal for classical music and finger styles rather than strumming.\nIt really does depend upon what you intend to play, and even then you might end up with several guitars for different purposes (for what I play I have a solid-body electric, a steel string acoustic and an elecro-acoustic 12-string).\nGo to a shop and try the different types - take a friend who can play.
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the acoustic guitar was designed to be heard without amplification. therefore it will be heard to some extent. you may want to use a very light pick, you may try useing your fingers instead of a pick, you could try damping the strings with the heel of your hand or you could just pretend to be crazy when they come to complain(haha).
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I too was a classical guitarist. If you gat a classical, it will not be as good for strumming with a pick, and the baby guitars don't have such a good acoustic sound, although they could sound good with good electronics if you plug into an amplifier. If your steel string guitar is a fairly good one, you might be able to keep it and still make it easier to play by switching to lighter gauge strings, and having it professionally set up by a luthier or instrument repair shop. If the action (distance between strings and fret-board) or the truss rod (iron rod inside the neck) are not properly adjusted, the instrument could be harder to play.
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If you can get out to a large music store that deals in acoustic guitars, pick one that pleases you in size, tone, and price.  Have a professional adjust it so it will play easy.  A guitar that plays hard and sounds bad is the biggest reason to not continue.  Good luck and hope you enjoy guitar playing as I have for the past 50 years.  And it's not over yet!!!
978318
If you're gonna do it, do it right. take lessons, learn to read music. take your time and learn as much as you can.\nI'm a guitar player, but never learned to read music. I wish i would have done it differently.
1071734
hardwork ...it will take time.. make ur mind for that 1st then start learning guitar..or anything... base of anything is to make your mind for completing it ... then start...\nstruming.. next...
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i'm a guitar instructor, i have about 40 students a week, and i also work behind the register at a music store. if a student comes in once a week for a half hour lesson, and gives an honest effort to practicing around 20 minutes or more on most days, i can have most ppl playing songs, and understanding chords and scales in about a month and a half or so. not playing perfectly, but enjoying it, and what you play will be easily recognized as a song.\n\nanyone can do it, as long as they want it enough to put in the effort.
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That depends on what type of music that you want to play, as well as what kind of guitar you have.  If are playing electric you could start with some classics that contain easy power chords.  A few easy ones that I know of would be:\n\nEverclear: Santa Monica\nBush:      Glycerin\nDeep Purple: Smoke on the Water\n\nIf you play acoustic the way I started to learn chords is by actually playing Christmas songs.  Most of the have the basic chords with a simple chord progression.
872751
Some tablature has arrows that go up and down. The best way is to just really listen to the song. If you listen to it long enough and practice at it you'll get it eventually. It took me awile to develop an ear for rythem when I first started playing guitar. So just hang in there
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learn to play the guitar first, practice the movement of your fingers and search for tabs of the song, there's probably tons available
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It's the same which one u start on.they have different playing technique.The acoustic is easier is because there is less things to buy.so when u have tried it you can find out whether u want to pursue it further.
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I taught myself and to be honest you don't have to go by every single little thing the books tell you. To be perfectly honest I just bought a guitar (actually it was a birthday present), bought some basic gear and went from there. \n\nAs I went on I learned what to do on my own like the scales and how to play them. Although to this day I don't know their names or whether they're minor or major I know their fret notes. If I can do this I'm sure a lot more people can. \n\nI also found out that as you go along you always learn from others who play guitar and what to do. I myself have committed to the self-teaching method and only ask a few questions when I take my guitar in for basic maintenance. Everything else has been by ear and never from anyone else but me. \n\nTo do this you just have to keep on playing until you find a style that suits you. I learned right off the bat that I was a rhythm guitarist so I decided to use drop-D tuning and it sounds fine. You just have to keep on learning and find your own style. If you just keep practicing you'll get better and better and if you also experiment on acoustic and the piano you can also find some very cool chords to play.
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not hard not easy ...\n\nif u liked it much u will learn it ... so u must love it at first ...\n\nbut in general its easy ...just in side of vocal ..some how it hard but if u work good for it u will passe it ..\n\nand when u learn this language ..it will be so easy to you to learn spanish and italy....\n\nand by the way its good choice ...have good luck ..