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Learn Guitar
I really really want to learn guitar. I looked into lessons but their like 20$ a half hour! Its crazy. My friends tell me to just teach myself, but I have no idea how. And my sister told me to get a book or DVD on it to learn from. What do you think? And guitsrists around that could help me? lol. And anyone who taught themselves, how did you and how long did it take?
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I play electric bass. It is pretty similar to guitar just guitar has 2 more strings. I asked my music teacher from school if he could teach me and he did. Most of the learning songs has gone on by myself. If you have some free time, i mean like 2-3 hours you could find some sheet music and learn the songs. There is a website where you dont need to know the notes. It is called www.mxtabs.net. it just says what frets the notes are on. its easy. Fret 1 staring on the left and fret 12 on the right.
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I've taught myself bass and I'm actually not that bad.
I just picked up the bass and I played a song, tabs make it really easy to teach yourself.
I learned a song in about a day.
It depends on how much dedication you have to it, if you have dedication, it shouldn't take you long to teach yourself.
What I'm doing, is I'm teaching myself the basics, doing all that stuff, and then I'll get lessons. It costs less money, and the basics are easy to learn yourself.
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get lessons!!!!!!!
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Teaching yourself NEVER works! You need a teacher or someone who is a professional. And i wouldn't go to a parent or something b/c they usually dont have time. Look in the yellowpages and call around for a session for less the 20 dollars. My lessons are 14 dollars. and my teacher is awesome. Hope i helped!
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i dont play, but I know the answer for this one. If your good at following instructions HONESTLY, really think whether or not you are, then do the DVD's and books and stuff. Plus it will look rele neat especially if you are good and taught yourself! If you find it hard to understand what it trying to be put through your mind without being guided by a teacher, maybe you should dig up that money expensvie or not. Look into other places, there's got to be a place or two cheaper than 20 bux a lesson, put an ad in the newspaper. good luck and happy guitar playin !
xox
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ok, i learned tabs first, which is nothing like reading music, which i find easier anyway. go here for help.
ultimate-guitar.com
mxtabs.net
cyberfret.com
ive been teaching myself for 2 years, but now i want to learn chords and music theory, and im getting lessons for 15 dollars per half hour, but im pretty good at guitar i guess, teaching myself was just fine. dont get rock guitar for dummies though, its horrible.
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i think u should take ur friends advice and buy books and dvds and stuff on it; if ur still not learnin then maybe u should sign up for school and they should tech you
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hey! i want to learn how to paly guitar too so wut i di was found someobdy else hew was interested and her brother knew how to play s ohe taught us but my otehr friend that wanted to play is taking lessons an she teaches me wut she learned...try something lyk that...its a little hard and confusiong but it works...hope i helped!
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I'm a guitarist but I take lessons. I've been playing for a year and a half and yes, it is 20 dollars for a half an hour. My friend taught himself how to play and he's AMAZING he's been playing for two years now. We're both just as good, so it's really all up to how dedicated you are and how much you practice. I can do my own stuff now but I go to lessons to make sure I'm doing everything correctly. I learn by hearing (auditory learner) and by doing it. About how long did/does it take... it's really all depends on your speed, if you're a fast learner it will take you less time. Hope this helped.
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it takes everyone a diff. amount of time to learn, so dont go by that! im going to start learning soon too, my stepdad is going to teach me! maybe you could go oneline, and search for a website that has all the notes on it and stuff and teaches you how to read music, that way you can just learn the notes and once you do that, you can start finding songs! x0x0x
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i use to play guitar but i got lessons i actually quit cuz it got to hard, but i think the best way to learn to play the guitar is to have an actual teacher and lesson because the other ways can be very complicated!!
*BeSs*
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If you dig through my column, I've answered this very question many times. Lessons really are the best way to go, and $20/30min is about the standard rate for low-end lessons. If you think that's a lot of money, I suggest you NOT look at professional lessons - seriously.<br>
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There are many tapes, DVD's, and even a few web sites with at least half-useful information for learning to play. Again, browse through my column, as I've linked to and listed lots of this stuff before.<br>
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Being self-taught requires a shitload of practice. Of course, taking lessons also requires the same amount of practice. Really, it is all about practice and dedication to wanting to improve.<br>
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For the record, so you don't think I'm just making this crap up, I've played bass guitar for 16 years, 6-string for about 7 or so, and saxophone for 20.<br>
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Ah, hell, I broke down and searched my own column for you... I'm such a softie...<br>
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