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Does anybody here play a guitar? I have a Acoustic guitar a friend lent me and I am thinking on giving it a try. I was told I can find a few programs on the net to help me learn. Has anybody here tried that?

Clancy and the Irishman are adepts, I'm not sure whether they use computer learning packages though.

http://www.wannalearn.com/Fine_Arts/Mus ... ts/Guitar/ looks useful. One of the sites it points to is http://www.guitarlessonworld.com/lessons/index.htm and there's a lot there which makes sense to me.

spot;579503 wrote: Clancy and the Irishman are adepts, I'm not sure whether they use computer learning packages though.

http://www.wannalearn.com/Fine_Arts/Mus ... ts/Guitar/ looks useful. One of the sites it points to is http://www.guitarlessonworld.com/lessons/index.htm and there's a lot there which makes sense to me.


Thanks I will check these out!

fisher;579478 wrote: Does anybody here play a guitar? I have a Acoustic guitar a friend lent me and I am thinking on giving it a try. I was told I can find a few programs on the net to help me learn. Has anybody here tried that?


First chose your style - do you want to strum so that you can join in with a session? Do you want to play lead with a band? Do you want to play classical style so that you can play something complete in itself?

Makes a huge difference to how you learn

Makes a huge difference to how you learnAnd, indeed, how much effort might be involved...

Q: I would like emulate the recorded style of Django Reinhardt by the summer, how should I proceed?

A: Learn to mime.

spot;579618 wrote: And, indeed, how much effort might be involved...

Q: I would like emulate the recorded style of Django Reinhardt by the summer, how should I proceed?

A: Learn to mime.


That's coffee all over the screen!

For us mere mortals, a lifetime wouldn't be half long enough

Bryn Mawr;579611 wrote: First chose your style - do you want to strum so that you can join in with a session? Do you want to play lead with a band? Do you want to play classical style so that you can play something complete in itself?

Makes a huge difference to how you learn


I am just looking to play like around a campfire. Nothing like a lead in a band. I don't think I would ever make it that far.

spot;579618 wrote: And, indeed, how much effort might be involved...

Q: I would like emulate the recorded style of Django Reinhardt by the summer, how should I proceed?

A: Learn to mime.
My brother (a virtuoso himself) helps organise a guitar festival every year in Birmingham where top strummers, including some relatives of Django Reinhardt fly in.

I play a little bit. My favourite chord is Hm7 :yh_giggle