How can I learn to play the guitar?

Question

I have always wanted to learn how to play guitar, but I have never been able to. We cannot afford an instructor, money is tight. I have tried the instructional books, but they have not helped me any. I cannot tune a guitar. Can anyone give advice on how to learn guitar?

Answer 1

Well you can buy books and Cds that are for beginners, Its going to take a lot of time and practice it's not an overnight thing.  My brother taught himself how to play the guitar and he is just 13

Answer 2

I used this site:

http://www.zentao.com/guitar/guitar-less...

It has a lot on the theory, how it works, etc. A lot of background information that you may want to jump around, but I found that it worked out for me.

This site is also one to check out:

http://www.abclearnguitar.com/

Answer 3

i dunno im in the same boat as you m8

Answer 4

If you have a keyboard you can tune your guitar. The strings from top to bottom are E A D G B E.

I learned by ear and practiced alot. Today I can play anything.

Answer 5

there are a bunch of online tuning pitches and tutorials on sites like ultimate-guitar.com and you can also look at chord diagrams, and figure out a mnemonic device or acronym to learn the strings like..

Elephants And Dogs Grow Big Ears.. that's what I used for the deepest to highest strings... EADGBE. its really not a hard instrument to learn if you practice and keep learning new chords and putting them together. i'd recommend learning C, F, A, G and D first as far as chords go, they seem to be the most common ones.