How to Start Learning Guitar...

Do you want to learn how to play guitar? Then YOU Should Read These 10 Points...

1. Make sure you really want to. Learning guitar isn't easy and if you're not committed you'll give up halfway and will have wasted your money and time.
2. Make sure you buy a good guitar. This is a good investment. A good guitar can last you for decades but if you only buy a cheap or "beginner" guitar, you'll end up having to buy another one later as these are not good quality and won't sound good for very long.
3. Find someone in the yellow pages who can tutor you on playing guitar. If you can't find someone you like then find out who of your friends can play guitar and will be willing to teach you.
4. Buy some good guitar instruction books. A good book has illustrations of chords which you can then use to practice your chords with.
5. Make sure your tutor knows what they're doing. If they teach you incorrect techniques, it will be very difficult to get rid of these bad habits.
6. Decide whether you want to play lead or rhythm guitar and tell your tutor that you want to focus on that specific style. It's better to be very good at either rhythm or lead than to be mediocre at both.
7. Get some instruction videos to watch at home.
8. Practice, practice, practice!
9. Don't become discouraged if you struggle to get certain things right. Most professional guitarists you hear on the radio had to work at their playing for years and years before even being slightly good.
10. Always make sure your guitar is tuned otherwise it will sound horrible. If you can't tune it by ear, get an electronic tuning device (ask for it at your local music store).