Even with a musical background, is guitar hard?

Question

I've played violin for about 10 years and piano for about 3. Will is still be difficult to learn to play for fun?

Answer 1

I've been trained classically in Piano for 11 years, and I found that the guitar is a very difficult instrument to play well. Chords are easy, but if you don't practice even minimally (like a half hour a day), you won't get anywhere.  

Answer 2

Well, I've been playing guitar for a year and a half and if you practice hard (30 min-1 hour a day) you'll be  good  

Answer 3

I played piano for two years before learning guitar. It was fairly easy for me. If you have 10 years of musical experience it should be easy for you.

Answer 4

You have a great advantage over most beginner guitarists, in that you understand chords and scales and the structure of music, and you know what it takes in terms of time and commitment to learn an instrument.  So I think it will be much easier for you than for someone with no previous musical background.

There is a certain level of repetitive practice that you'll need to put in, in order to develop the necessary muscle memory to play chords and change between them quickly and smoothly, and to play scales and learn to find your way around on the fingerboard easily. You can't get around that.   But as I say, you probably already understand WHAT it is you need to know how to do on guitar, now the challenge is simply to learn HOW to do it.  

Answer 5

Once you learn one instrument and become "good enough" , it's very easy to pick up new instruments. And guitar isn't one of the harder instruments.