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In my opinion, the piano is harder. I’ve been playing guitar for two years and though I’m not amazing, it does impress people. Your long fingers will help with chords and solos (when you get there). I wanted to give up when I couldn’t change chords fast enough but after I conquered that I was golden.

I think piano is harder in the sense that you focus on both your hands. I’ve been trying to learn piano and it seems way more difficult then when I started guitar. In guitar you focus on one hand while your other strums/picks.

I believe your Guitar Hero pwnage will give you an advantage because your fingers won’t be as stiff.

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I’ve looked into free lessons for some time now. All I have to say is you get what you pay for. Try going to a review site like http://www.lessons-for-guitar-online.com. There you can compare the best online guitar lessons in the industry. Plus, they usually provide you up to 24 free lessons. Jamplay and Guitar Tricks are what I thought was the best.

Hope this helps?

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I taught myself how to play as well. The main site i went to is wholenote.com. And its completely free.

That site is so helpful. I still use it even though i’m not a beginner anymore. It has lessons from beginner to extreme advanced skill levels and is easy to navitage through. It also alows you to pick between different styles of guitar you want to learn. Its amazing.

My suggestion would be to click on BASICS at the top and click on all of those lessons there and learn them. Those are the basics. Then go to LESSONS at the top and click on Acoustic/Folk, since you want to learn acoustic. You can select beginner skill lessons and work from there. Just roam around that site and it will be amazingly helpful for you.

First things I learned while teaching myself:

parts of the guitar
tuning
learn how to read tabs (i dont know how to read real music, yet)
major chords
minor chords
strumming
knowing the fretboard (know all the notes on the 6th string from the first fret to the 12th fret. It starts over at the 13th. The 6th string is the thickest string.)

get all of that down and then put together like 4 chords and make a song. Just play them over and over again.

Transitioning to chords will be tough and your hands will hurt for a month but if you stick with it you will see an improvement. Dont give up! Good easy transitions are form G to D, G to Dm, D to G, Dm to G, Am to C, C to Am, E to Am, Am to E, and anything to Em is usually pretty easy. Some good chords to play in a pattern to practice are…..

Am to C to G to Em
or
G to D to C to Am

those are pretty easy.

Try to learn all of that and you’ll be playin in no time. Is really quite simple and easy once you get the hang of it. Stick with it and practice for like 1 hour everyday and you’ll get all this down fairly well in a month or two. Stick with it. Dont give up. And remember, guitar playing is not a chore. It is for fun! Think of it that way. It shouldn’t be like homework.

So ya, hope this was helpful.

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Only place I can think of would be Ultimate-guitar.com
Just start off by learning basic chords like A, G, C, E, D

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PluckandPlayGuitar has free video based lessons for absolute beginners and assume you know nothing or close to nothing.

It takes you step by step through the basic guitar chords one by one. There’s also lesson on guitar scales, techniques and some easy songs to play.

Http://www.pluckandplayguitar.com/

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Can you learn how to play guitar on your own, just from the internet?

Yes. Doesn’t mean you’ll do it right, though. As the other answer suggested, learning on your own means you *will* have bad habits and incorrect technique. I know, because that’s how it happened with me…. I never had enough money to afford a teacher, so I just taught myself. Worked out pretty well, for the most part, but it wasn’t until years had passed that I began to realize that there were problems with my technique, problems that if I would’ve had a teacher that would have never shown up.

As a result, I did have to “unlearn” how to play and figure out how to do it correctly. My speed, coordination, and enjoyment did increase once I began ironing out my issues, but if I would’ve had good instruction from the start I would be a lot better by now.

My suggestion is to either get a teacher to learn the basics (how to hold your hand, how to fret a note, how to play a chord cleanly, how to run scales) at the very least, or if you are in the same place that I was when I started out, at least find the best guitar player you can jam with and study them like a hawk, ask them questions, etc.

You should have no issues with that guitar, its perfectly fine for a beginner. I *strongly* urge you to get it properly setup and intonated, though! This is something I never really understood for years, but a proper setup and intonation means that your guitar will play better, will stay in tune better, and will sound in tune with itself when you play higher up the fretboard.

Research your butt off – no teacher means you need to absorb a lot of information to make up for it! Youtube is an excellent resource that I didn’t have when I was starting out – so spend hours studying how they do it, it should help you out greatly!

Saul

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Free Guitar Videos is a good place to go. YouTube also. And you can check ebay for any guitar lesson CDs. Although the website might help, I strongly recommend getting a teacher. It’s different when you have someone to teach you in the flesh. It would take you less time to master a certain aspect than if you tried to get in on all the stunts by yourself. Not all guitar teachers are expensive, by the way. You can try looking into your community. There may even be free lessons. Or, if you really dislike the idea of splurging, you can ask a friend to teach you.

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I advise you that first few days learn guitar with any guitar master or you can join any music learning academic then only can go through instrumental tap and videos and YouTube is best tutorial web sites to learn guitar it help u very much .

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In my opinion, the piano is harder. I’ve been playing guitar for two years and though I’m not amazing, it does impress people. Your long fingers will help with chords and solos (when you get there). I wanted to give up when I couldn’t change chords fast enough but after I conquered that I was golden.

I think piano is harder in the sense that you focus on both your hands. I’ve been trying to learn piano and it seems way more difficult then when I started guitar. In guitar you focus on one hand while your other strums/picks.

I believe your Guitar Hero pwnage will give you an advantage because your fingers won’t be as stiff.

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I’ve looked into free lessons for some time now. All I have to say is you get what you pay for. Try going to a review site like http://www.lessons-for-guitar-online.com. There you can compare the best online guitar lessons in the industry. Plus, they usually provide you up to 24 free lessons. Jamplay and Guitar Tricks are what I thought was the best.

Hope this helps?