Wanna learn to play the guitar

Ooookay. I've always been intrested in learning how to play. My older sister used to play the regular guitar (forgive me, I'm ignorant of the different types) and took lessons. I've found a lady in the newspaper that teaches, so should I start taking lessons or is it too late for me to learn? (I'm 18 - scale of 1 to 10 on attention span, ten being highest - I rank at a 4 1/2 most of the time.)

And if I do take these lessons, what type of guitar should I go for? Thanks in advance.

 

The two main types of guitars you8 are looking at are acoustic and electric. Most of the people i know who are good at guitar, took lessons, for a few years. BUT, the best people I've known on guitar were mostly self taught, took them even longer.

If you are worried about your attention span, I would suggest lessons. As for acostic or electric, that depends on whether you want to pklay folk or rock.
Hope this helps.

 

It did help, actually. I'm more of a rock type girl, by the way.

 

im learning guitar too. I suggest gettin a computer program on it. They are very cheap and can help beginners along or, if youre already a guitar pro, maybe even teach you some stuff.

 

im self taught, and im doing pretty well actually.

 

well! what i did , was buy a guitar- then i got a few lessons, then after learnin the scales and all- left the teacher and thought myself the rest,
doin quite well i reckon.



once ya get used to the basics- the rest is up to you!
and its never ever to late!!

my uncles just learnin now and he's 48

 

Best thing is get a book with basic chords as simple as possible or even better a chart. You can't do beter than that. I have taught many people, and the first thing I do is teach them three basic moveable positions, which we call barr chords.
Three lessons or sometimes first and they're off
jamming to a three chord song.

The second thing to learn is how to read the chords of a book, if they don't put the charts, but if you just wanna play your favorite songs, buy the songbook of that artist, and learn the chords slowly, then sing and play them, It may take a while to get it right, but once you learn how to play every chord, and sing along with it, you'll have more fun than going to any party.

 

I learned chords from fender player's club and out of a chord book... then I just moved to chord charts and tablatures. I never had to "practice" scales mostly because for some reason I can naturally play them by ear and feeling... I actually am perfecting what I like to call Blues-Metal... it's sort of like Zakk Wylde or Brian May crossed with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton.

 

if you were in band in school. that'd help a lot. basically you can teach yourself. lessons are a good push to get you going in the beginning tho. the thing with lessons is. learning the chords and notes for the frets. it's all about getting the sounds you want. im still working on that. same with rhythm. you never really stop learning on guitar. i've gotten stuck a few times to where i couldn't get out of my head and explore with new rhythms that's why i learned to cover stuff and got a book on time signatures. as for getting the sounds. just let it pour out. music's cool like that. you'll hear that acoustics are harder to play, and it's true only because the strings are thicker making them a pain to work with. it's a better idea to get an electric just for the sake sooner or later you're gonna want an amp and you can always do a clean channel on it. any effects bored now can give an acoustic sound. so you if you want the warm tone on clean you can still get it.also i'd recommend when you're messing around to play clean, then once you have a riff that you feel for, then add the effects like overdrive, because if you can make it sound good clean. you can make it sound good with distortion, but the other way around doesn't work out all the time. well. uh..yea..guitar rambling. last. get a basic guitar at first. you dont want to get all into stuff like floyd roses from the start.

 

I wouldn't want a guitar with a floyd rose trem if I played for 50 years. The easiest to work with are vintage strat stems, modern strat trems, wilkinson trems, and of course.. the bigsby.

 

Yea, I want to learn an electric guitar so bad, but I'm in college with alot of work to do, so I'm worried about not having enough time. How long does it usually take before you can really start playing songs? I want to play rock songs really badly, and just curious on how long it would take on a limited schedule to learn...

 

yey, I'm learning to play it too.. and you can find the thread called "guitar scales" where you can see how total beginner I was, and now.. I can play songs like Let It Be, Hey Jude, Ruby Tuesday, As Tears Go By..

 

http://chordfind.com/

 

yea, i know. sadly i have to work with them.

 

Its never too late to learn an instrument. I would teach ya if you live down here. Right now im teaching my cousin for free hehe. haha. I recommend you learn acoustic guitar first.

peace
chickens

 

You work for that site, or you learn from it?

 

oh no bro i was talking about floyd roses. they're not cool. too much pointless hassle, i like the bolting necks on them, even if they're rough when it comes to getting them stay in working order.

 

maybe I'm too old but I don't know what floyd roses is.....

 

ha it's cool man, it's a type of bridge. it can "sink" or "float" go up or down. it mess' with the strings. it's something odd stringing them too. they come with a lot of unnecessary bolts. they have a knob system for easy tuning but it throws it off. go figure. plus the tune of one string changes the one below it, so tuning takes a while. once you get it all set and whatnot you can lock it in place so the tuning stays good. but it's all a lot of work. especially if you like playing in different scales like standard drop d or b e.

 

I think I'm begginning to understand.