accoustic guitar

rufs

Not sure if this is the correct forum but what in your opinion is the best way to learn to play guitar.
On your own via youtube, websites etc.
Or professional lessons

Nervous Wreck

The best way is, very obviously, to get lessons. But teaching yourself is a lot of fun.

rufs

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

The best way is, very obviously, to get lessons. But teaching yourself is a lot of fun.

Cheers for reply, reason i asked really is that if i got lessons i would prob only be able to afford one every fortnight or so, youtube has so many lessons on it but most are....well crap tbh

Nervous Wreck

It depends what you want to play guitar for. If you wanna bang out a few tunes, just get a chord book and teach yourself. If you wanna be great, a lesson every 2 weeks is better than none!

rufs

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

It depends what you want to play guitar for. If you wanna bang out a few tunes, just get a chord book and teach yourself. If you wanna be great, a lesson every 2 weeks is better than none!

Just for my own amusement really and annoy the neighbours with my bad voice

Rigsby

+1 for lessons.

Especially if you are starting from scratch, lessons are better than the net or books /DVD's etc in two important ways.

1. Lessons from a good teacher are (should be... if the teacher is worth his salt) structured. This means that you start with the basics, and then each lesson will build gradually on the information gleaned from the previous ones. With the on line lessons people are inclined to simply pick a lesson that takes their fancy. Doing this could find you jumping in the middle or worse still, the deep end. Then you find yourself back pedaling because you dont understand what is being taught. This can lead to frustration and could possibly be the cause of giving it up.

2. A teacher can assess your playing and point out if you are doing something wrong. Obviously books or the net cant do this.


My advice is to take a few lessons to get you started and pointed in the right direction. Once a fortnight is fine as it will give you plenty of time between lessons to practice what you have been taught.The teacher should give you enough to work on for the fortnight


After that, you have the choice to continue with lessons, or go it alone. If you choose the latter option and find yourself in a cul de sac, you could always go back for some more lessons to get you back on the straight and narrow.

rufs

Rigsby wrote: »

+1 for lessons.

Especially if you are starting from scratch, lessons are better than the net or books /DVD's etc in two important ways.

1. Lessons from a good teacher are (should be... if the teacher is worth his salt) structured. This means that you start with the basics, and then each lesson will build gradually on the information gleaned from the previous ones. With the on line lessons people are inclined to simply pick a lesson that takes their fancy. Doing this could find you jumping in the middle or worse still, the deep end. Then you find yourself back pedaling because you dont understand what is being taught. This can lead to frustration and could possibly be the cause of giving it up.

2. A teacher can assess your playing and point out if you are doing something wrong. Obviously books or the net cant do this.


My advice is to take a few lessons to get you started and pointed in the right direction. Once a fortnight is fine as it will give you plenty of time between lessons to practice what you have been taught.The teacher should give you enough to work on for the fortnight


After that, you have the choice to continue with lessons, or go it alone. If you choose the latter option and find yourself in a cul de sac, you could always go back for some more lessons to get you back on the straight and narrow.

Great advice...cheers

Noxin

Lessons will be the best idea for the reasons Rigsby already pointed out.
If you choose to try it yourself, check out: http://www.justinguitar.com/

Chap is quite good to get you started!

rufs

Noxin wrote: »

Lessons will be the best idea for the reasons Rigsby already pointed out.
If you choose to try it yourself, check out: http://www.justinguitar.com/

Chap is quite good to get you started!

Cheers noxin

Everlong1

I spent twenty years learning how to play and made a LOT of mistakes so am happy to impart hard earned knowledge. As many posters have already said LESSONS are where it's at although to start with, you can learn the basic chords from a book. There is some good Youtube stuff out there as well for simple but classic tunes like Wish You Were Here etc. Shop around until you get a teacher you like as well. Some teachers will have their own ideas of what you "should" be learning - I had a guy once who was teaching me these great jazz chords which were useless to me as I just wanted to play my favourite U2/Police/Oasis songs. My favourite teacher was one who just asked me "What do YOU want to play?" I used to being a tape (remember those? ) of whatever song I wanted to learn, he'd work it out and then show me.

rufs

Everlong1 wrote: »

I spent twenty years learning how to play and made a LOT of mistakes so am happy to impart hard earned knowledge. As many posters have already said LESSONS are where it's at although to start with, you can learn the basic chords from a book. There is some good Youtube stuff out there as well for simple but classic tunes like Wish You Were Here etc. Shop around until you get a teacher you like as well. Some teachers will have their own ideas of what you "should" be learning - I had a guy once who was teaching me these great jazz chords which were useless to me as I just wanted to play my favourite U2/Police/Oasis songs. My favourite teacher was one who just asked me "What do YOU want to play?" I used to being a tape (remember those? ) of whatever song I wanted to learn, he'd work it out and then show me.

Haha tapes? I remember records !! Sounds like a good teacher though...exactly what id like to be learning is what i want to sing !!!

cthulhu79

1 buy or borrow a guitar
2 try to learn one of the song you like the most (if you have the song in your head you're half way to play it)
3 see the results