Guitar Lessons
From TechHelp
Starting to learn guitar was not easy for me especially with so much study and research going on, most of the time I'm up to my neck in books but to continue living like that 16hrs a day is just not healthy in the long run. I found something that I've always wanted to do = take guitar lessons http://www.guitar-in-a-nutshell.com/ - online guitar lessons (good example there) and just started trying to teach myself.
Wasn't too straightforward to begin with as it's pretty easy to pick up some bad playing habits when you don't have anyone around to show the absolute correct way to do it. Nevertheless I persevered and eventually found some excellent resources online for teaching yourself how to play through the internet and video lessons. The link to the example above is a good quality method and worked well for me.
As a starting point you ought to go to YouTube and sample out guitar lessons there first. There are literally 1000's of them for free and many of the top guitar websites post up samples of their courses in the hope that people will try them, like them, and come to the site to take out a membership.
Most online guitar courses run on monthly memberships which recur automatically but one there seems to be an almost universal policy of having a 30 day money back guarantee with all of them. This is great because you can try out all of them risk free. The guarantee's are real and you will get your money back. You don't even have to give them a reason.
Probably the best kind of guitar to start out on is an acoustic guitar however there's really no reason why you couldn't start on electric either, just be prepared for the added expense of having to purchase an amplifier, leads, effect units and so forth. All that stuff can become quite addictive and it's not too cheap to buy unfortunately.
Most players find that they start to get into a specific niche or style of playing after they've passed over that initial stage of learning all the typical beginner chords and strumming patterns. This decision will lead you down different paths on guitar, for example, choosing to learn how to play jazz guitar will give you a vastly different learning journey that choosing blues or rock guitar.
The best advice is to think about players you really admire, records you've always loved, even specific guitar solos... that will give you a strong indication of where your passion lies. Just follow it.
Learning to play guitar is NOT easy despite what you'll hear and read on many of these guitar sites offering online guitar lessons but if you have the right kind of determination and willingness to keep up your practicing there's no reason why you can't end up being able to play guitar to quite a high standard. The key is to find the best quality guitar lessons you can, decide upon a realistic practice routine which you know you have a reasonable chance of sticking to over the long term and start!
