Does Anyone Here Play Guitar?

I've got this beat up nylon string guitar that my sister bought for me online for 1 cent, stalk.

It's so fucked up, it was my first guitar. It's semi-broken, there is a huge split running down the length of the neck, the strings are literally 3-5 inches off of the fret-board, everything is so wacky about it.

I can make the craziest music on that thing.

 

my first and only guitar was a shoebox on a stick with rubber bands around it...

 

hell yes!

I'll bust out that broomstick bass, NGH

 

When I was little, I made a guitar out of an old tennis racket and a bunch of rubber bands of varying widths. It was surprisingly melodic. haha

 

Yeah, cheap classical guitars rock. A lot of old leonard cohen stuff was on nylon, sounds awesome.

 

I should take a picture of it haha.

 

wow

 

thats me when I was 10, playing air guitar.

 

no way

is it really?

you needed pants.

 

a little.

 

I get down on the gitar'

 

I stopped playing guitar about 2 weeks ago and have started trying to learn piano.

I don't think I have enough time to keep up with two instruments at once

 

It doesnt matter if you watch your fingers or not. Knowing your way around the fretboard will take at least 4-5 years for an average learner to be able to play any sound that you have in mind on instant command.
I've been playing since 18, so I guess around 5 years now. Started with steel string and then got a nylon acoustic 3 years ago. I cant read standard notation (though I used to as a child when I played piano for a year) and I struggle with tabs, so the majority of what I've learned has come from tedious torture sitting there and trying over and over again to nail a song down.
I've learned 998 Prelude and 1007 Prelude by Bach, 47 Granada and Asturias by Albeniz, Recuerdos De La Alhambra by Tarrega, and a few other classcial peices entirely by ear and trial and error, and can play all of them (except Recuerdos because I refuse to sit in the established tremolo position) from memory, and I still have to look at my fingers half the time with the huge stretches these songs demand your fingers make very quickly.
I cant tell you the name of a single scale, or a shit about theory, or a fuck about anything, all I know is the basic chords and a few jazzy ones I've picked up from messing around over the last few years, but I can pretty much figure out any song played on any western stringed instrument and in a very short time.
Dont know proper blues, ragtime, jazz, slide, or even how my fingers, in the most awkwards approach to the instrument, have figured out the likes of Albaniz, but it happens. What it all comes down to, is as long as you have a obsession for music and the time to spend playing it rather than doing anything else for at least 1 (preferably 2, if you can afford it) hours every day, in a year you will be playing full songs from memory, and in 3-4 you will be playing classical (if thats a direction you decide to take later on, of course).
Really it's not difficult in any way, it just takes intense training and the ability to get past frustration quickly. Id have to say that my own experience has proven that the block you get from guitar is a lot more frustrating that writers block. I go sometimes for months without touching a musical instrument, it's that bad at times lol.
Good luck A and God bless

 

I've never played guitar.
But I used to take a few lessons of violin and piano in my childhood.

 

Maybe that's why you didn't like it so much.


I play guitar, if you want tabs etc. http://ultimate-guitar.com/
It's got tonnes of stuff on there.

 

Thanks again everyone, and thanks Relay!

 

honestly, when talking acoustic sometimes cheap is better. I got this old, probably tenth-hand no name guitar for $10 a few years back and it's still my favorite guitar... even sound wise.

Not too sure about playing left handed, are you playing it upside down or right handed?
I'd play it upside down because playing it right handed will most likely fuck up you rhythm.

 

No, I'm pretty much pretending I am right handed, I might try to learn upside down eventually, but I am no Hendrix. haha

 

A scorpion taught my ex-boyfriend how to play Iron Man. He was tripping on shrooms in Algebra, lol. And then it turns out the bastard taught him how to play it completely wrong. So here's the only tip I have for you in your journey to learn the guitar: Don't trust scorpions!