The amount of people looking to learn the guitar is increasing every year as the internet fills up with video tutorials aiming to help you. The problem is that for some reason people think it will be easy to learn, they see only 6 strings and wonder ‘how can it be?’, well the answer to that is very hard!
The first step you need to take if you want to learn the guitar is either grab a course like the one mentioned in this Jamorama review or you need to find someone to give you lessons. Then you need to practice what you learn every day, as much as you can, to help build up the strength of your fingers and their dexterity, as well as allow you to move between chord shapes easily. Then one thing people neglect when they practice is the theory side of things, so set aside time every few days to sit down and go through how to read music and what modal harmonies are etc until you know it off by heart.
I think the biggest problem people have when learning the guitar is practice. They assume that after an hour they will be sounding good and can then build on that skill, except you will probably be buzzing the strings for the first week as you learn, then every time you learn a new chord you will struggle with it, so practice doesn’t always sound great, but it is necessary. You will need to put in hours and hours of practice just so you can start to change between the basic chords with enough speed to actually keep up with the beat of a song, and it may take months to get to that position with all the chords you need for that song.
So I guess I am saying that yes if you want to learn the guitar then it is cool, it is fun and you can do it, but go into the process expecting it to be slow and painful at first or you’ll just quit when you don’t get fast results.
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