Is it worth it for me to teach myself guitar?
So I play drums, violin and piano and I really want to learn guitar. But I’m only allowed to take private lessons for one instruments and I’m already taking drum lessons and I don’t want to quit that… So I have enough for a SUPER cheap 38" acoustic guitar. Do you think it would be worth it? Do you think it would be difficult to teach myself? I can already read music… Do you think I should do it?
Hello there,
Since you have already learned how to play 3 instruments, you already know how much work and effect is needed to learn any instrument. Guitar is no different. It is not any easier to learn, nor really any harder, than other instruments. I figure it takes about 1 to 2 hours a day practice to maintain your skills. Learning a new instrument takes a little more time than just maintaining your skill level. Frankly, I think you will be spreading yourself rather thin, Most likely the time you spend learning guitar will be at the sacrifice of one or more of the other instruments. You only have so much free time to allocate among the instruments.
I presume you are still in school. So lets look at what adding the guitar would do to your daily schedule. You get home from school and maybe have a snack and relax for a few minutes. That would make it around 4:00. One hour practice for the drums, piano and violin would take until 7:00. Take an hour for dinner would make it 8:00. Now 2 hours for learning the guitar would make it 10:00. Now you have home work to do and studies to do for school. That takes until when? The instruments will eat up your entire free time. When will you spend time with friends? Do you play any sports? If so, how do you work those into that schedule? You only have so many hours to allocate among your interests.
Of course it is difficult to teach yourself. You do not yet understand how to play the instrument and cannot correct your mistakes. Teaching yourself, you fall into bad habits and improper techniques that can take a long time to un-learn. Sure, you can learn on your own, but it is much harder to do. It would require more time and effort than learning through lessons.
Knowing how to read music helps if you are going to play classical guitar. If you are going to play folk or rock guitar, that does not help nearly as much. Nearly all rock music for guitar is written in tabulature. That is a shorthand method of writing guitar music. You will have to learn it and it is not really related to sheet music notation. Fortunately, tabs is quick and easy to learn. But if you are going to play pop or rock on the guitar, you will have to learn to read tabs.
A super cheap acoustic guitar is closer to a toy than a fine instrument. It will make sound, but not good sound. It will likely be difficult to play if you were an experienced guitar player. For a beginner, that guitar may be quite difficult and frustrating to try to play.
Should you do it? That is something only you can answer. It is about priorities. How much you want to play the guitar as opposed to your willingness to sacrifice time spent on other instruments.
Later,
yes give it a try i wish i was as talented as you to be able to play more than 1 insturment always reach for the top!
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absolutely, i taught myself to play when i was 12, i couldn’t read music at all so i just used tabs. years later i took piano lessons and learned to read sheet, but it was difficult to break my "bad habits" and "shortcuts" i wish i had learned piano first, it changed my whole approach to guitar music for the better! so go for it, it can only help you as a musician!
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personal experiance
Hello there,
Since you have already learned how to play 3 instruments, you already know how much work and effect is needed to learn any instrument. Guitar is no different. It is not any easier to learn, nor really any harder, than other instruments. I figure it takes about 1 to 2 hours a day practice to maintain your skills. Learning a new instrument takes a little more time than just maintaining your skill level. Frankly, I think you will be spreading yourself rather thin, Most likely the time you spend learning guitar will be at the sacrifice of one or more of the other instruments. You only have so much free time to allocate among the instruments.
I presume you are still in school. So lets look at what adding the guitar would do to your daily schedule. You get home from school and maybe have a snack and relax for a few minutes. That would make it around 4:00. One hour practice for the drums, piano and violin would take until 7:00. Take an hour for dinner would make it 8:00. Now 2 hours for learning the guitar would make it 10:00. Now you have home work to do and studies to do for school. That takes until when? The instruments will eat up your entire free time. When will you spend time with friends? Do you play any sports? If so, how do you work those into that schedule? You only have so many hours to allocate among your interests.
Of course it is difficult to teach yourself. You do not yet understand how to play the instrument and cannot correct your mistakes. Teaching yourself, you fall into bad habits and improper techniques that can take a long time to un-learn. Sure, you can learn on your own, but it is much harder to do. It would require more time and effort than learning through lessons.
Knowing how to read music helps if you are going to play classical guitar. If you are going to play folk or rock guitar, that does not help nearly as much. Nearly all rock music for guitar is written in tabulature. That is a shorthand method of writing guitar music. You will have to learn it and it is not really related to sheet music notation. Fortunately, tabs is quick and easy to learn. But if you are going to play pop or rock on the guitar, you will have to learn to read tabs.
A super cheap acoustic guitar is closer to a toy than a fine instrument. It will make sound, but not good sound. It will likely be difficult to play if you were an experienced guitar player. For a beginner, that guitar may be quite difficult and frustrating to try to play.
Should you do it? That is something only you can answer. It is about priorities. How much you want to play the guitar as opposed to your willingness to sacrifice time spent on other instruments.
Later,
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Yes its worth. And an easy way is takes some money and make online guitar course.
I took one and its really easy to learn and you already can take your drum lessons.
good look
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http://www.learn-online.net/learn/fast-easy-play-guitar.php