Can you play the guitar, how did you learn how to play?

I think that it would be great to be able to play the guitar, I always used to want to play the guitar as a kid, but there again I always wanted to do everything for all of 5 minutes!!

I do not know much about the guitar so I cannot help much with tips or anything, but good luck in learning how to play, I am sure you will be really good soon!!

You have already mentioned your weak point here....IMPATIENT. Guitar is one such musical instrument among a hundred others where its a tough time getting through without patience. You interest to learn it will however help you along a long way.
I have been playing on the guitar since three years by now and I had the same feeling as you have right now. As a a tip I'd suggest you to keep a concentration on the chords and forget all about the rhythm by now. Learn to shift from one chord to the other. When you are quite good at doing this, shift upon the rhythm. I took around six months to learn it but it was worth the pain. For reference go to www.all-guitar-chords.com. . All the best Kiran! Hope to listen to a beautiful guitar play from you soon.

I learned guitar when I was fourteen. So -- a long time ago, heh heh. I took a group class to learn the basic chords, then took private for quite awhile.

What's nice about guitar is you can learn a few basic chords and there will be several songs you can already play. Nothing fancy but it'll still sound good. Not like picking up, say, a violin or a reed instrument where sounding good takes much longer.

HI kiran-I used to play the classical guitar years ago but taught myself and I also have had singing lessons, so it was really good there were many songs I used to play and sing on the guitar-the one I loved to play and sing to was 'memories' its such a lovely song.
Unfortunatley you will have to learn the cords first your fingertips will harden after a while the more you play.blessings my friend littleowl

Hi kiran!! Its really good to hear that you are learning to play the guitar. I love playing the guitar. It really takes practice. I remember as a young boy holding the guitar trying to play D chord. It was really irritating cause no sound would come out. I gave up. But after a few year I started again with some of my friends. This time I stuck to it. Now I am glad to have spent those long hours in the night practicing.

Keep practicing. Remember you have to be patient!!
Have fun!!:)

Hi there Kiran!

I know how to play the basic chords and luckily, I found songs that needs just those basic chords. I am not really good with it and I learned by myself with the help of a chord chart. My husband is good though. He used to be the lead guitarist of their band where my uncle was the lead vocalist and that's how I met him.

I sometimes play but not very good at it. There are alot of instructional videos on how to read tablatures; it's a guide on proper placing of the fingers and stuff. I have some saved in my computer it's like a music sheet, just copy and paste it to notepad and i go back to it whenever i feel like playing again

I dunno how to play a guitar.. I sure know how to play a keyboard..

i don't actually know how to play a guitar... but i know how to play an organ... i learn that when i am still a child... but because i never pursue it seriously and i only do it halfway, now it is all gone... i kind of regret it... but what can i say??? instead, i go to singapore to pursue my study and i learn mandarin instead... it is not a total loss after all as now i know how to read, write and speak mandarin quite fluently... good luck with your guitar lesson... hope you will be able to play guitar real soon... take care and have a nice day...

Hey, good luck with that! I tried to learn to play about a decade ago. Did some lessons, bought a couple of picks and playbooks and "how to" cd's. Unfortunately, that didn't work out for me. Don't get me wrong, I practiced and practiced but I think my fingers were just too set in their ways that it was difficult for me to do the chords.

Good luck, again. I hope you start rockin' in no time.