People enjoy playing guitar, but learning to play guitar requires a lot of patience and continuous practice, whether it is an acoustic guitar or an electric one. Once you learn a few basic chords, you can proceed to play some popular songs and have wonderful enjoyment.
There are different methods of learning to play guitar. You can have classes under an able and experienced teacher whom you can locate from advertisement in local newspapers or by searching online. But private tuition under a music teacher may be costly and unaffordable for many of you.
You can buy a book and learn yourself. You can also by a CD/DVD and learn the lessons by playing the same on your PC. There are also guitar lessons online which you can download on your PC. Most of the websites offer free lessons online.
First, you have to learn some basic chords. You can buy a book or a chord chart from the music shop and learn. You have to move from one chord to another till you get similar. Practice of atleast for one hour daily is essential.
After mastering a few chords, you can move to learn some of the easy songs. You can buy sheet music from music shops or get them online free of cost. Music and song sheets, free guitar tabs, chords strumming patterns and advice on a DLY pedal board are available online for learning guitar music. You can get tips from your local music shops or online how to string a guitar if you are not able to learn it on your own.