What does it take to learn to play guitar?
Question by Archie: What does it take to learn to play guitar?
I’m learning to play guitar with an acoustic. I learn to play songs by looking up the chords or tabs.
Is learning to play guitar just knowing how to play all the possible chord variations?
Best answer:
Answer by matthewb
it takes patience and the realization that it isn’t that hard. there are essentially two parts to a song, the chord based rhythm and blues scale based riffs. chord based rhythm is more important. consider early rock and roll as a starting point. most early rock songs, and indeed thousands of others, use only three chords. the addition of strumming patterns (such as down up up down) adds flavor the the rhythm. so basically, be patience, learn the chords, and get some easy three chord songs under your belt. it’s that easy.
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