Learning the guitar?

Got a guitar for my 21st learnt abit now forgotten i'm relearning again at 27! M8 of mine has been playing for 25yrs and hes good (can play some Joe Satriani stuff and hes a legend).

He recommended i use Justin Sandercoes stuff its on youtube and hes got a website http://www.justinguitar.com. hope this helps, i'll let you know how it helps or not for me!

[CheGuevara]

I've always sorta wished I could play guitar (any instrument really, but guitar seems a pretty logical choice) as well. If I was about to start out, what should I look for in an acoustic (so as not to overspend and not end up with a silly piece of junk)?

[Sir Trev]

Originally Posted by CheGuevara

I've always sorta wished I could play guitar (any instrument really, but guitar seems a pretty logical choice) as well. If I was about to start out, what should I look for in an acoustic (so as not to overspend and not end up with a silly piece of junk)?

Go to a guitar shop and ask. They're not intimidating and they shuld help you OK, especially if you're enthusiastic and might come back for something more expensive later on. They may also have second hand kit.

I'd avoid buying something from Argos - it will arrive in a box and will be badly set up. A shop will make sure the neck is angled right, the bridge is at the right height, the strings hold a tune and so on.

For her birthday last year I bought my daughter a an Encore guitar kit, like the one in the link here http://www.bbzguitarsshop.co.uk/acat...c_guitars.html although hers is the full size one. BBZs is my local shop and made sure it was set up and ready to play at no extra cost.

Have a go, or it may be one of those things you always regret!

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

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.

I picked up a little 3/4 size acoustic from a secondhand shop for a tenner a couple of years ago. Love it to pieces. It's even more special too me now as I got a few uni mates to sign it at my 21st.

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

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.

They say 15 mins practice a day is all you need (obviously more is better ). I play a few tabs and enjoy making up my own little tunes but I don't take it too seriously, it's purely for my pleasure and I often play as a welcome break from drawing.

At least give it a go Tim, if you can find a cheapish guitar first. It's surprisingly rewarding but you need to keep at it ideally, I get so annoyed when I don't pick it up for a month and I forget stuff

Originally Posted by barwel1992

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

What a load of codswallop. And as a Associated Board Grade 8 drummer I a more than qualified to say tht! I also play basic guitar.

Once you get past your very basic rock rhythms and start putting double bassing etc etc in, drumming becomes very difficult and will take a lot of patience and practice inorder to get your limbs working at different times from each other. I have been playing the drums since I was 11.

Guitar is similar. I know my very basic major minor chords but have never had the patience to sit down and go any further, although I would love to as I would like to write some music. When doing my Advanced Higher music I wrote a ouple of songs and the teacher said he was impressed and that I possibly have a flair for it but that they weren't "technical" enough for the advanced higher composition module because they were using basic keys so I would like to sit and learn to play properly.

balls !!! drums are far easier to play that guitar (also play guitar) i have allways been rythmic thogh so it could help i supose but i found them damn easy to lean and play also had no problems with coardiantion after the first month or 2, took 3 weeks to get used to the dobble bass

but every one has difforent learning speed so nether of us can comment on how easy or hard it is

Talking through your hoop. Once past the very very basics, drums and guitar are pretty much on a par with each other.

Barwel and MBK, don't forget that people pick up musical instruments very differently. What may seem pi$$ easy to some certainly won't to others. No point splitting ends over it

Originally Posted by Milky Bar Kid

Talking through your hoop. Once past the very very basics, drums and guitar are pretty much on a par with each other.

i still dont agree, i allways found guitar harder

Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

Barwel and MBK, don't forget that people pick up musical instruments very differently. What may seem pi$$ easy to some certainly won't to others. No point splitting ends over it

I agree, but the point I am trying to make is that neither is easier to learn that the other.