How long did it take you to start REALLY understanding how to play the guitar?

Question

and what made you keep pushing threw the confusion?

Answer 1

It took me about two weeks. Two weeks of intense practice haha. I suggest you start with the basic and most common chords, and practice them till you can play them well with smooth transitions between them. After that, you can either ask your guitar teacher (if you have one) or buy a guitar book and look up the various notes and the other chords.

Trust me, if you have an interest, guitar playing comes very naturally, and it's an awesome way to pass time and express yourself

Good luck! Tell me how it goes =)

Answer 2

I play for only 2 months and it take me about a month to understand everything!

What made keep pushing threw the confusion was my dream of being in a band and record some songs(and now I am in a band and we recorded our first song)and my love for music and especially guitar!

Answer 3

if u take lessons then 2-3 weeks

Answer 4

Took me a couple of weeks to figure out the basics.Here's a tip.When you buy a guitar learn the feel of it.Get used to it and practice your fingering and picking technique a little bit everyday.Learn a few very basic chords or notes and exercise your fingers by picking the first 4 frets on each string one at a time.This'll loosen you up.Then start going to somewhere to take lessons and you'll be rocking out riffs in no time.Go at your own pace.NEVER rush at guitar.It'll mess you up later on.Then you'll start to learn more complicated Chords and Scales.Slowly figure these out between lessons and you'll get the hang of it in no time.

Answer 5

learning how to play the guitar is like learning another skill, like driving, playing basketball, etc. the learning time depends solely on the player and his guitar (the playability of the guitar). when i first started, my fingers hurt to the point i can't write cause i didn't know that the action was really high! i also find it hard to sing and strum, but got used to it later.

to learn to play well, i recommend looking at ultimate-guitar.com, looking at instructional videos on youtube or find a video podcast.

start with songs that you are really familiar with. i learn a lot from David Crowder, John Mayer and Clapton. slowly you will develop your own style after imitating your favourite players.  

Answer 6

I had (and still have) a good teacher. I take lessons and I learned how to understand playing guitar in a few weeks. My fingers had to be trained and that involved practice; I had to learn strum patterns and all sorts of stuff. But I'm not done learning all that I need to know.

What made me keep going was my determination and wanting to understand (and my goals). My teacher was only helping me out and I needed to get everything down myself at home, until the next lesson that is.

Answer 7

I took lessons when I was 8, and after 2 years I took a break one summer. After that I had a different teacher, and that's when I really started understanding--that was when I switched to tabs.

Answer 8

I'd say if you play a few hours a day, it will take a few weeks to get your fingers used to the strings. From then on, try and learn chords and it will be another few weeks until you become proficient at changing chords. From then on, it depends on how much you play until you become familiar with the fretboard. I'd say that after you become proficient at chords, you should be pretty familiar with the guitar.

Answer 9

Once you've played basic scales and patterns consistently for a couple of weeks, you should just then start to get the "feel" of the instrument.  Once you've done that, it'll really take you several more months to start understanding how notes are lined up along the neck of the guitar, particularly on the 5th and 6th strings.  It's safe to say that you can expect to be playing some songs on the guitar within about a year of first starting to play - give or take a few weeks, really.  It's a skill that takes time, patience and persistence, just like everything else in life.  

Be sure you're in with a qualified teacher.  Whether it's a guitar teacher, a choir director at church who can spend some time with you on music, or just a friend who also plays and can show you some stuff, whatever.  If you're not taking lessons from an actual guitar teacher, then seek out some good tutorials (online lessons or instructional books/DVDs) that can show you the basics.  Don't invest too much cash in such tutorials though - a good teacher or fellow guitarist should be able to suggest something for you so you're not just buying whatever book looks cool on the cover.  Don't try learning the instrument completely on your own; spend as much time with other musicians as possible, that's the best way to progress with it.

Good luck.  :)

- C