Re: Learning the guitar?
 

practise practise practise................. thats all you need to know, if anyone says its like riding a bike, you'll never forget....... they lie!!, i cant remember half the stuff i used to know

Re: Learning the guitar?
 

i have been playing for 30+ years and still crap. forgot more than i know now. i can only play about 3 songs all the way threw.

Re: Learning the guitar?
 

6 months mate. Buy a book, look on youtube and buy something semi decent

Re: Learning the guitar?
 

Sounds like too much effort for me! But thanks for all the tips and putting me off lightly, I just don't think I'll have the time to dedicate, but it would be cool.

Re: Learning the guitar?
 

Then give it a try, what have you got to loose, you dont have to spend a fortune on a guitar, although more expensive ones do play and sound much better.

If you can find 1/2 hr or so a day that'll be enough, especially for your fingertips whilst you get started. You might find you get really into it.

Re: Learning the guitar?
 

+1, good advice, give it a try

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also +1 you have your whole life to try, afterall we are always learning no matter how long we have been playing

Re: Learning the guitar?
 

its good to fill in all those little odd half hours you have, better than watching tele anyway

Re: Learning the guitar?
 

If you find yourself having trouble fitting the tab to the tune but really enjoying playing the guitar then a program called guitar pro might help. Theres a 15 day trial here and what you do is go to ultimate-guitar.com and download a guitar pro file and there are nearly as many of these as there are tabs. Then you double click the guitar pro file and it opens in guitar pro (rocket science so far i know! :)) Then the magic happens! It has all the guitar tracks, bass and drums to the song you chose with the tab to play any part you like, and not only can you view the tab but you can get the program to play the music to you (in slow speed if you really need to break it down) i always found if i could not get the rhythm quite right guitar pro would help wonders!

(sorry for no paragraphs and probably overall grammar and spelling it is late and although i am very tired i cannot sleep!)

Re: Learning the guitar?
 

get a drum kit, if you have any kind of rthem then you can play the drums

i had lessons for a good few years and was fun and dosent take a age to get decent unlike guitar, and the added benifit that you can take stress out on it