New to playing guitar

jasonshoe77 · Post by **jasonshoe77** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:16 pm

I have only had a guitar for a few months and was wondering if I really need to take lessons, or can I learn on my own with video's and stuff like that? I think i will have a problem with rhythm and the finer points if I don't. What do you think?
Jasonshoe77

DrumsFoDaSoul · Post by **DrumsFoDaSoul** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:06 pm

I think you can handle it. Just watch lots of videos and always have the will to learn. If you want to do it bad enough, you will do it.

Plus theres always a lot of things you can learn on the boards.

Twostep13 · Post by **Twostep13** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:51 pm

if you want to learn music throey and the technique side of the guitar i suggest lessons.. but if you just want to play and have fun, and develop your own style, then you dont really need lessons...
and just curious... is your name "jason - shoe77" or "jasons - hoe77" ?

ericwormann · Post by **ericwormann** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 12:52 am

dmbtabs...welcome to it

a1075dd63aa12 · Post by **a1075dd63aa12** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 2:09 am

id reccomend them at least temporarily. it will give you a solid base, and it will help you progress quicker through the initial stages. i took them for a month (learned to read tablature, learned scales, learned very basic theory, and learned practice techniques). If you have the dough, might as well, if you dont, you can figure a lot of stuff out on the internet.

sfmartins · Post by **sfmartins** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 5:04 am

wkpggrvn2001 wrote:id reccomend them at least temporarily. it will give you a solid base, and it will help you progress quicker through the initial stages. i took them for a month (learned to read tablature, learned scales, learned very basic theory, and learned practice techniques). If you have the dough, might as well, if you dont, you can figure a lot of stuff out on the internet.

The other option to learn this stuff is to find a friend. I started playing guitar because a friend of mine played. He taught me to read tablature, scales, basic theory, etc.

I think classes will be more useful when you can move your fingers in a more relaxed way.

For now, just practice a lot...

Good luck and welcome to the boards.

burvowski · Post by **burvowski** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:04 am

winglet82 wrote:dmbtabs...welcome to it

can't say it enough

Teego Time · Post by **Teego Time** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 1:09 pm

Twostep13 wrote:if you want to learn music throey and the technique side of the guitar i suggest lessons.. but if you just want to play and have fun, and develop your own style, then you dont really need lessons...
and just curious... is your name "jason - shoe77" or "jasons - hoe77" ?

I thought the same thing

i-am-me · Post by **i-am-me** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 1:43 pm

i'd say start off by yourself. start learning what you want to learn first. then, if you're really interested, you'll get a teacher because you'll WANT to know theory.

jasonshoe77 · Post by **jasonshoe77** » Wed May 03, 2006 7:31 pm

jason shoe77

jasonshoe77 · Post by **jasonshoe77** » Wed May 03, 2006 7:32 pm

jason shoe77

6_strings_for_life · Post by **6_strings_for_life** » Thu May 04, 2006 12:14 pm

I think its possible to learn the guitar on your own, but even if you take 2 months of lessons you will grow so much faster and see results faster too. Some people who try to learn by theirselves get frustrated and quit... good luck.

ut4ever8 · Post by **ut4ever8** » Thu May 04, 2006 1:23 pm

i taught myself how to play for about a year and a half and thought i learned really fast, then i kind of hit a wall i couldnt really figure out where to go nest, so i took a three or four lessons over my winter break and it helped alot, i learned some theory and it helped more than anything i ever did, so i would suggest taking a few lessons, it cant hurt,

wayward_blue · Post by **wayward_blue** » Thu May 04, 2006 3:15 pm

If you want to get the basics down fast I'd say lessons will help, at least a few. I never had lessons and I learned by reading books and this site and other sources. Just depends I guess but you can definately do it on your own.

neophyte · Post by **neophyte** » Tue May 09, 2006 1:19 pm

I had the same questions when I started. A friend of mine plays and I finally bought a guitar and started tinkering around with very small parts of songs that I picked up from him. Very soon I realized that I wanted to continue and eventually be good so from that day on... literally... I played constantly. THis site is a lot of help, also listening to the songs you want to play over and over helps tremendously. So by the time I decided maybe I should take lessons, all my friends that play said that it would be waste of time because I picked it up just fine from tab, chords, yada yada.

Its really about how much time you put into it. If you have plenty of time and are eager to learn you can teach yourself quite a bit. Dont give up.

How much have you learned so far?