Is anyone on here trying to learn to play guitar?

[Dark]

Just curious...

I've been trying to learn on and off for about 2 years and must say its the hardest thing i've ever attempted to learn. Its not going to beat me though!
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[oldpink]

been strumming (badly) for years now
though My son is a superb guitarist, he's been playing for a few years
he also plays bass and drum's
lots of my friends play as well and we often have jam's on a friday night
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[jay_666]

The guitar is fairly easy to pick up and play, but hard to master.

Like most things, there is always something new to learn. I've been playing for 7 or 8 years and i'm still learning.
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[Minty]

I have Guitar Hero for the Playstation.

Found it quite easy to be honest.

I dont know what you are moaning about.
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[Dark]

What? Easy to pick up and play?

It took me ages to get my fingers round the basic major and minor chords and i still have trouble changing betweem one or two of them.

After two years i still can't really play anything

I thought at one point the more guitars i had the quicker i'd learn i have five now and it hasn't helped
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[ali-b]

I've been trying to re-learn after getting nerve damage in my hands (can't feel stuff very well)...

Advantages :-
Can't feel - so no pain from the steel strings

Disadvantages :-
Can't feel - so all my tunes sound crummy as I miss strings a lot

May be time to start playing something else...

A.

[Annabella]

Guitar baffles me... there are too many strings, the frets confuse me and the notes are too far apart.

I'd rather fiddle with me fiddle.
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[Slickfish]

I have 2 guitars and I can't play for sh*t!.
Did try to learn but my tutor moved away!

[Trixie]

I have a guitar in its case tucked away in the corner of the room that hasn't seen the light of day in quite a while.

I first started playing years and years ago and got quite good for a while, but then I lapsed and stopped playing for ages. Now, I find that when I pick up the guitar I can play most "easy" chords and string them together quite well, but the more difficult (i.e. stretchy) ones tend to elude me.

It's all practice, practice, pratice....
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[jay_666]

Thought i'd post up a few piccies

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Gibson SG Standard
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[Method]

My brother got a guitar in Jan, been learning since then and hes getting quite good at it.

I however, cannot get to grips with it what so ever! I would love to be able to play something even remotely interesting on it, but the best i can do is smoke on the water

It realy is quite difficult i find, my fat fingers dont help much neither
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[jonboy22]

Yeah I've been learning for about a year as well.

Well I say learning but I'm just sort of figuring stuff out for myself.

Can play loads of cords but have no idea what they're called....

Prefer downloading tab and just learning a few songs at a time...
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[oldpink]

A few more pic' sof my son's guitars
these are the ones he uses when he's in Amsterdam
he has a few guitars back home as well
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[jonboy22]

I have a poxy accoustic £50 quid job. Would quite like a prper guitar, got a really nice peavy amp though...

Um yeah I can play Nothing Else Matters and I would be confident enough to busk down in the tube with it.

Also play a bit of Beatles, can strum my way through Blackbird, and Here Comes the Sun.

Problem is if I say I were to "jam" with somone I would be pants, as I don't knwo the name of any cords....I just....play I guess.....
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[oldpink]

jaming is a great way to learn
my son has played with the band I worked with when he was only 14
he learned a lot from jaming with them during setup etc
and occasionally we get to jam together with me normally playing chords on the accoustic
and him playing lead

heres a link to him trying Comfortably Numb for the first with the Floyd tribute band I work with
he had no idea that he was going to be playing untill we handed him the guitar

https://www.thesurrogatepinkfloydshow.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/comfortably%20numb.wmv
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[jonboy22]

That's deep buddy.....

wow....made me feel a bit funny then....you know when you get a blob in your throat....and a funny shiver...

Be nice though, if the first thing you play on it is a complete song, one that you really like.....
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[oldpink]

I can play all the major and minor chords and bar chords
but its the 7ths and things that get me
some things I can play better than others but I like playing thing's like hotel california or wish you were here on accoustic
if I'm playing electric I'm more likely to play rock or metal song's
and I can manage Stairway to heaven intro as long as I havn't drunk to much beer
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[cbrbiker]

I bought me a cheapo Yamaha a few months back and can just about play the intro to "Nothing Else Matters"...

Still haven't got my head around chords yet though. Not had much opportunity to practice.

**EDIT**

Make that the beginning of the intro to "Nothing Else Matters"...
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[jonboy22]

Yeah Stairway if your staple starting solo type thing...

The nothing else matters "intro" is um......a good start..
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