Motivations For Playing The Guitar

The reason why many people want to learn how to play the guitar, is so that they can learn to play some of their favorite songs. There are many ways to learn guitar these days, but is there a best way to get started with playing the guitar?

I too had this same motivation when I started learning to play guitar about five years ago.  At the time, I wanted to be able to play some guitar songs and impress all of my friends.  So I did some research and found a decent guitar instructor who could give me private guitar lessons.  This worked out okay in the beginning, and I learned the guitar basics in my first month.  However, private lessons are quite expensive and after the first month of classes I decided private lessons were too expensive for me.  Plus, it was such an annoyance to keep my appointments twice a week and drive over to his house for lessons. 

I still wanted to play guitar though, so I decided to start teaching myself on my own, using the best guitar courses I found on the internet. After just a little bit of practice, I was able to play the basic guitar chords and I could also start to recognize them by ear.  Most popular songs are made up of the same few basic chords that you learn from the beginning.  Once, I learned these basics, soon I was able to play my favorite songs just by listening to them first.

It is completely awesome to discover how many guitar playing resources that are available online.  The best part is that a lot of these great guitar playing sites are absolutely free.  You can find how to videos that show you all the cool Guitar Tricks right on Youtube.  If you ever have any problems, then just locate one of the many guitar forums and you will quickly get the answers you seek.  All these guitar teaching resources make learning to play your favorite guitar songs easy and convenient.  Playing the guitar is such a fun skill, and it never gets old impressing your your friends and family with your guitar playing ability.