Learning to play guitar is a serious business that you should take lightly. Once you have a little physical hands-on experience with the guitar you can relax and make choices about what style of music you want to learn and how you want to learn it. Once you have learnt the basic chord shapes and how they can be moved up and down the fretboard, you can experiment with strumming patterns if you get bored with that, you can start on learning a few finger picking patterns. You must never lose sight of the goal of personal satisfaction behind your musical efforts.
Part of learning to play guitar is, unfortunately, the wondering. “Which way of learning to play guitar is the best for me?” “How many ways of learning are there?” Are books the best source of guitar learning information? Or is it better to pick some of my favorite songs and concentrate on learning how to play them?
What makes learning guitar more confusing is the fact that everybody who learns seems quite happy to have taken the path that they took and, in hindsight, would not have done anything different. Anyway, maybe talking to friends who already have been through the learning journey would probably be a good start. Did they learn to play by starting on chords? Or scales? How do people feel about their abilities as a guitar player after a few years of fooling around in a non-disciplined way?
Many guitarists have made their way by watching and talking to friends and making use of the free tabs on the internet. Choosing tabs should be a fairly stress-free job if you are guided by your personal musical tastes but there could be a problem with learning from friends. If you have a bunch of friends or family members who think they know a thing or two about playing the guitar, you are talking to someone who may or may not be aware of their own limitations.
A guitar playing friend can show you how to play a chord or a riff but they will have only limited ability to provide you with the guidance you need to chart your own guitar learning path and to judge your own progress.
If you do take the unstructured route for learning guitar, you can always take a lesson or two from a professional teacher just to make sure you haven’t acquired too many bad habits and to help with charting a course for your guitar music progress.
One experience you could do well to share with a guitar teacher is learning from a printed guitar tutor. If you choose one of good guitar lesson books you already have a structured learning program and sharing the learning with an experienced guitarist who can add his own perspective to the info in the book.
Ricky Sharples
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Is it easy to learn how to play Guitar if you know how to play piano?
I have been playing piano for 7 years, and I’m wondering if that makes learning the guitar easier.
A little bit yes.
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The way you approach guitar is very different, the only carry-over will be musical knowledge, but guitar is much simpler to get by with than piano with basic knowledge, do it. Besides, its portable.
Guitar is about both hands working together instead of independently and the left hand is the "brain" here as apposed to the more active right hand in piano. Building chords and scales are weird as you cant see them as easier in a linear fashion like on piano and close intervals are hard to play so you have inversions for most typicalpiano chords. But they have their own visual patterns that become more and more familiar.
Have fun!
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hey RK
You already have the ear training, the timing and I presume you can read music. Basically, all of the above will contribute to learning the guitar easily and effectively.
You obviously have storng fingers on both hands. Also, you have the idea of synchronization, so important for left and right hand co-ordination.
As a guitar player myself, I went the other around and learnt piano and got the knack to solo , chording etc… and became proficient enough in a studio .
Your choice..
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Berklee Graduate / Luthier / Studio Guitarist
Utilize some great websites like tubestreamer. These kinds of video sites are the easiest way to learn. If you are already familiar with music it should not be too hard.
Try: http://www.tubestreamer.com
This site for me has been really useful and has many resources. I like it because of all of the videos, and video categories. Plus it has a search function.
It has everything with tags for "guitar" which make it easier finding guitar related material unlike other video sites like youtube.
The website will display correctly on all web browsers except Internet Explorer (Which is the only downfall, but the admin said it would be fixed very soon)
With that being said, and the ammount of information from the page, I am still happy with using Mozilla Firefox to go there for now. Internet Explorer is the last of my concerns.
I am sure that the page will be viewable using IE7 and the new IE8 by the end of this week, so make sure to bookmark the site for future use.
On http://www.tubestreamer.com you can find everything from the most basic of beginner videos, to advanced stuff, guitar reviews, amp reviews and more. I found this site a while back and have been visiting it every day since then. I go there to learn to play songs, get equipment reviews, and also to vote.
http://www.tubestreamer.com sponsers someone off of youtube each week and posts them as the "weekly streamer"
This is kindof cool and gives people a change to make it off the youtube site and onto other pages as well.
I noticed when I first started going to http://www.tubestreamer.com a few weeks ago, that there were changes being made to the page every day. I think the site is fairly new, but again has given me answers to most all of the questions I had that were guitar related. If you don’t see something you are looking for, just use the search.
Some Main things on http://www.tubestreamer.com
1. Acoustic covers and tutorials
2. Guitar Lessons
3. Tabs / Covers / Lessons / Workships
4. Guitar information such as Repair / Reviews
Content seems to be updated daily, search tags show new things so I don’t get stuck on searching myself, or trying to find something I would like to learn. I simply go to their page and get great suggestions.
I have sent an email to the admin and got a fast personal response as well. (Which is a good thing)
Something I really like to see…. Great page with great guitar content, of which most of the time has had exactly what I am looking for and more.
I noticed there is also a new section that is a web forum area, and rumored a classifieds posting section for guitars and equpt coming soon.
On the email reply I received from http://www.tubestreamer.com
I was told that there would also be another place added soon for everyone to upload their own guitar videos and tutorials.
Definatly a website worth bookmarking in my browser, and hopefully it will be as much help to you. It is web pages like this I think that really help out by keeping so much information in one place. Thank you TubeStreamer.com !
Sorry to sound like I am boasting this site, but I love it, and it has shown me a lot of new things and I have learned to play a lot of new songs this way. Seeing a video is much easier to learn guitar. (Even has some Piano stuff, and recording software stuff as well)
The newest area added is the forum, and though it doesn’t appear that many people have signed up on it yet, I am sure it will not take too long for this site to take off…Let’s give some support to a great site showing dedication to bringing us great video information for free!
Visit, sign up for the forums, and browse around! Thank you for reading!
http://www.tubestreamer.com
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