Many people who take up wanting to learn to play guitar often start their lessons wondering how long it will take them to become reasonably good at it.
It's hard to give a time limit when it comes to learning a musical instrument because it really depends what level you want to get to. This is the same no matter what instrument or any other type of skill you want to learn to master.
And, learning a musical instrument, like learning anything in life, is something that will improve with more practice. So, you could take guitar lessons for a few months and become able to strum a few chords and maybe even play a few of the easy guitar tunes. If this is a good enough level for you then so be it. It might be that you will have reached a point where learning to play the guitar is not as great as you thought it would be. And that's fine too.
But if you want to carry on learning to play, for a couple of years, then your level of expertise and even the sheer numbers of hours that you will have practised and played the guitar for will mean you have so much more expertise under your belt and you will be that much better.
It really depends on whether learning to play the guitar is just a fad you go through or whether it becomes a burning passion of yours.
For those well-known guitar players, take Slash from Guns N'Roses or Jimi Hendrix or Eric Clapton, playing the guitar was more of a passion, more than that it is/was their vocation. These were incredibly gifted artists and remarkable with their command of the instrument but can you imagine how many hours they must have spent perfecting their craft?
For some, you can play guitar and never give up, you will simply get better and better and finally reach a point where you and the guitar are one. You are no longer at the point where you are "learning" to play anymore. It is now more akin to you becoming a part of the guitar and the guitar becomes your instrument through which you make sweet music.
When you attain this level, you can be said to have mastered the art of playing the guitar.
Of course, many people never reach this level and that is fine too.
It's hard to give a time limit when it comes to learning a musical instrument because it really depends what level you want to get to. This is the same no matter what instrument or any other type of skill you want to learn to master.
And, learning a musical instrument, like learning anything in life, is something that will improve with more practice. So, you could take guitar lessons for a few months and become able to strum a few chords and maybe even play a few of the easy guitar tunes. If this is a good enough level for you then so be it. It might be that you will have reached a point where learning to play the guitar is not as great as you thought it would be. And that's fine too.
But if you want to carry on learning to play, for a couple of years, then your level of expertise and even the sheer numbers of hours that you will have practised and played the guitar for will mean you have so much more expertise under your belt and you will be that much better.
It really depends on whether learning to play the guitar is just a fad you go through or whether it becomes a burning passion of yours.
For those well-known guitar players, take Slash from Guns N'Roses or Jimi Hendrix or Eric Clapton, playing the guitar was more of a passion, more than that it is/was their vocation. These were incredibly gifted artists and remarkable with their command of the instrument but can you imagine how many hours they must have spent perfecting their craft?
For some, you can play guitar and never give up, you will simply get better and better and finally reach a point where you and the guitar are one. You are no longer at the point where you are "learning" to play anymore. It is now more akin to you becoming a part of the guitar and the guitar becomes your instrument through which you make sweet music.
When you attain this level, you can be said to have mastered the art of playing the guitar.
Of course, many people never reach this level and that is fine too.
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