I bought a guitar, now i have to start to learn it...

India
May 30, 2012 9:01am CST
OK Now i have bought a guitar and i know some basic chords on it right from some song tutorials but i want to learn it from the basics like in a systematic way like teachers teach. Are there any online sources for learning guitar online?
3 responses
• United States
2 Jun 12
There are million sites online for learning the guitar. But you're looking for a systematic way that would be the most effective for you. The only way to this is with a private teacher. He's the only person who will be able to take your goals and transfer them into a lesson plan step by step. There are many free videos on YouTube for learning the guitar as well. But I would be careful with them.
• India
2 Jun 12
Yeah teacher is a best way but i am kind of busy in my schedule, so i've decided to learn it online. what do you actually mean by " I would be careful with them".
• United States
2 Jun 12
One of the main pitfalls with learning from YouTube is that you will learn bad playing habits from really bad guitarists. I'm sure you know what great music sounds like but if you're a beginner guitarist, there are certain techniques that you will not notice at first. When I did my searches on YouTube, I cannot express to you how many bad guitarists are on there presenting themselves as experts. I understand if your schedule doesn't permit a teacher. Have you ever thought about doing a skype lessons with a teacher? I actually wrote an article about my thoughts on YouTube for learning guitar. I go into more detail. http://ow.ly/bjMzU Hope this helps.
@GemmaR (8517)
30 May 12
When I bought my guitar, I found that the best thing that you could be able to do would be to look or chord patterns on the internet, and learn them one by one. Soon, you would find that you were able to play enough chords to be able to get a whole song together, and playing your first song will be something that is very rewarding for you. One of the things that I used to do would be to look on the internet and see if there were any songs that I liked that had simple chord patterns, and if there were, I would use these to learn the songs with and I found that it was much easier to be able to learn this way than it would be to learn the chords without actually having a song to be able to play them along to.
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• India
31 May 12
Thanks for the advice , I already did some songs i should then proceed for more songs i guess. Happy Mylotting.
• Philippines
30 May 12
there are plenty guitar lessons that are in the internet. but you know you kinda learn the basic lessons just by picking a simple song and getting a guitar chart. once you can hear the tune of that simple song you begin to learn how to play the chords then you build your way up. Also you could go to YouTube there are people who post good guitar lessons.
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• India
30 May 12
Yeah thanks for the advice , i already did it as i said , but is there any basic lesson a systematic way, like first learning the string notations and all that...