Is Learning Guitar Hard?

Is learning guitar hard?

There's no clear answer to "is learning guitar hard". Science just doesnt know. But it's the question that people starting off learning guitar or wanting to learn wonder most, other than maybe "how long does it take to learn guitar", but same thing.

And if you're learning guitar, or have in the past, or if you want to, I'd love to hear your opinion. Because I feel like people's perspective on this question changes a lot depending where they're at in their learning guitar journey.

But to put it simply, learning how to play guitar is as hard as you want it to be. It depends on how you define "playing guitar" and what your guitar goals are.

For example, if you want to learn how to play a few songs so if you see a guitar at a party or just, around, you can play something, you can do that fairly quickly.

And honestly that's really not a bad place to start. At first if you only know how to play one or two songs, I wouldn't really call that "knowing how to play guitar", as much as knowing how to play one or two songs. But if you learn one or two songs 5 times, you're well on your way to being a guitar player. While I do think it's important to learn the fundamentals if you want to become a more advanced guitar player, I don't think that means you HAVE to start with them.

And there is an argument about if you rush that you'll develop bad habits. But bad guitar habits are better than no guitar habits if you just stop playing after a week , to an extent.

Anyway, in the video I discuss my experience as someone who learned guitar online, my progress, and more.

Thanks for watching :)

[Tyler-whmn]

"Playing guitar isn't like riding a bike. You don't use your feet."

[magmion]

There are a lot of "ahhh so thats how it works" moments while learning guitar. First its hard, then you learn something you can mess around with for a while, then it gets hard again, and then youll get another ahhhh moment, and so on

[josephs.]

When your fingers physically don't go into a certain chord, yeah it's hard.

[bisvizstudio]

Steps on learning guitar:
1. Pressing the strings with enough pressure so it's sounds good (will hurt your fingertips)
2. Memorizing the shapes of chords
3. Switching from one chord to another chord (you'll need to look at first but when it becomes muscle memory by repeating it many times you can play blindfolded)

done. you can play any songs that use strumming. but to play fingerstyle is a whole new level.

[SilkCutJaguarXJR-]

when you actually want to, you can learn anything.

[Mynamegoesher]

I’ve been playing for about 26 years now, learned everything from mr. redlight. Thank you savior

[AxelAlexK]

I found it really difficult at first but after the first 6 months or so once you've developed some decent muscle memory it became a lot easier for me.

[andrewross]

The most phenomenal thing I tell people is when you feel like something is impossible like say your first barre chord. Then for some magical reason one day it just works perfectly every time like you have new hands.

Then for some reason you have an off day and can't hit it right at all but you stop take a break for a bit and come back and it works again.

Idk that's my experience and it blows my mind lol

[christianityfanjul]

Lol my favorite terminology “G chord “

[denglish]

I've been playing guitar for 10 years but only started playing seriously when I got out of college like 2 years ago. I love it. I'm so glad I decided to put in the time to actually try to get better and grind through the sounding bad part. Starting to really feel confident in saying I can really play guitar. Spent a year trying to learn 40oz by polyphia and to see the progress is awesome. My sweeping still sucks in comparison to tim henson obviously but I'm leagues ahead of where I was last year. And next year I'll be even further towards my goal.

[Im_Miigz]

Been playing guitar for about 3 months now, gotta say it’s been quite a different journey than expected. But the more I play, the more I want to get better. Which is why you’re right, mindset is everything

[austinscherer]

27 days in. It's not simple, but I have noticed that the results are within the work. Today for example, I spent a solid hour working on alternate picking, and boy was the pay off worth it. I know I am not experienced, but it is so encouraging just to see the marginal differences. Thanks for the posts, they have been really helpful for beginners like myself.

[adrianwakulicz]

I love how chill your videos are and it makes me feel less bombarded with all this technical theory stuff but just allows me to have fun with like guitar and learning songs 😂

[kjb]

I like your approach to playing the guitar. It’s very ’’healthy” i think. Your videos helps me sometimes when I am upset about my playing. Thank you and greetings from Poland!

[jaredmorgan]

Nice work! Entertaining. Just ordered my first guitar. I’m almost 50 and decided I wasn’t gonna sit around wishing anymore that I could play guitar. Now or never.

[evalyndelong]

I've been playing guitar for almost ten years now (since i was eight) and im completely self taught. The hardest thing is not getting discouraged and telling yourself to pick it up even if it seems impossible. If you ever get stuck, look back on those times that you didn't even know how to hold a guitar and see your progress. Not everyone learns at the same pace so keep going, you got this.

[davesingh]

I’ve been playing guitar for 7 years and the thing that helped me the most is learn a bunch of songs. You’ll see what sounds good and what dosent, then later on you can learn scales. But to start off learn your basic open chords and jam away to your favourite songs.

[dawidzurawski]

The only thing I don't like about your videos is that they're short! I always crave more! Keep it up man and I understand that these videos probably take a lot of time to edit!

[sammyboyy]

I got my first guitar at Christmas, and I can't believe how every one of your videos sums up exactly how I am feeling about the whole learning process. It's somehow actually going quite well, and I am loving just learning songs online and picking up the damentals accidentally.


Also love the videos and edits, bloody hilarious- cheers from England

[charliecartmell]

I’ve only just started playing the guitar properly (online) in the past few weeks but I absolutely love it and these videos are one of the reasons which keep me motivated. Keep up the good work 👍🏻