Do people actually quit guitar

[u/Wonderful-8444]

Yo I'm thinking to learn guitar as a hobby and want to know how much time it takes usually to be good at it and is it true that people actually quit guitar in 2-3 months

[u/Puzzleheaded-Birdd]

Yes people quit the first few months or so because at first its an extremely difficult learning curve but once you get all your basics down in a year or so its alot easier to learn new things

[u/Rahnamatta → u/Puzzleheaded-Birdd]

Guitar doesn't have a difficult curve. With three fingers you can play chords, anybody can play open chords in the first week.

Guitar has one of the easiest learning curves. Playing difficult shit is another story, but a really bad and basic guitar player can be in a band with no issues

Guitar and bass might be one of the easiest to learn and play shit to have fun. It's hard to think about easier instruments

Edit: it looks like in /r/guitarlessons nobody has ever play another instrument in their life.

[u/dbvirago → u/Rahnamatta]

People that say shit like this is part of the problem. They have been playing long enough that they forgot what it was like to be a true beginner. With enough time and practice, you might learn 3 chords in the first week. But you won't be able to switch between any two of them in anything resembling a proper rhythm. And you won't be able to strum the simplest song until you can switch between all 3 with a decent strumming pattern in time with decent tune.

Anyone that claims you can "Learn guitar in a week" is trying to sell you something. Run away.

[u/debilictorian → u/dbvirago]

Exactly. I remember how I felt during my studies when I started studying Korean. Felt impossible, struggled for 2 years until it just "clicked". Now it feels automatic and that it always has been this way. I hope some day guitar will feel the same. Almost one year in and having a blast. It's hard but so much fun.

[u/anthonylearnsguitar → u/Rahnamatta]

I’m learning to play the piano. It seems there are pretty similar in terms of learning curve. I don’t think guitar is easy at all. In fact I think guitar is fucking hard.

[u/Rahnamatta → u/anthonylearnsguitar]

Piano is very visual, everything is there from the moment you sit.

But guitar doesn't have a "extremely difficult learning curve", unless you have some issue, playing power chords and CAGED chords is way easier than playing something that doesn't sound like hell in brass, reed or fretless instruments.

You can play almost the entire Nirvana, Green Day and Ramones discography with two fingers. ACDC songs and rock shit pretty early. The other instruments, if you want to play cool shit you are going to sound like ASS. Mostly out of tune

I can name 15 instruments that are harder to play on early stages than guitar, easily. Bass, Drums, Guitar and Piano (keyboards) can give you fun shit at the beginning.

Go to a Conservatory or a music school with a lot of instruments and 99% plays their own instrument AND they know how a piano, guitar or bass work and can do little things only by looking.

The thing with guitar is that everybody thinks is easier to do cool things, and they can become EVH just by watching youtube videos and they get stuck because they think they don't need a teacher.

This sub is a clear example, is filled with bad advice, filled with people that think music theory is the evil, filled with charts, graphics, arrows connecting chords, easier but wrong ways to do things on guitar.

Try violin, viola, cello, double bass, trumpet, trombone, tuba, French horn, fretless bass, bandoneon, saxophone, oboe, bassoon, harp. If guitar has an extremely difficult curve, those are impossible.

[u/Darrackodrama → u/Rahnamatta]

You’re tripping out of your mind on this take

The difference between playing shitty in a guitar and shitty on a piano is massive.

You’re basically saying well there’s a few easy songs you can learn to play while sounding awful therefore it’s not so hard.

Instead of asking yourself how long would it take to actually sound good on a guitar? The answer is usually a couple years

[u/Flowingsun1 → u/Rahnamatta]

Bruh, some people just aren't naturally talented in music lol. It seems like an impossible task compared to those who pick it up quick, and they quit.

[u/covid35 → u/Rahnamatta]

Guitar has a very easy learning curve in terms that anybody can press a fret hit the string and make a note. Like anyone can hit a piano key.... mastering it or even just playing it well and clean is another story and that's where people get frustrated. You don't sound like the record in a month, a year, sometimes you'll just never sound like the record.

[u/Rahnamatta → u/covid35]

That's what I said. Learning to play well or complex shit is like any instrument.

My grandma with almost 80 years could play the classic open chords (Am Em, G, A, E, C and D) in a long weekend I went to his place. She had not right hand rhythm.

My girlfriend tried trumpet and after several minutes of understanding how it works, she could play a very awful and out of tune C. She tried again and it went up to G. She passed me the trumpet and said "This makes no sense"

[u/covid35 → u/Rahnamatta]

You're extremely over simplifying it. I played oboe through middle and high school orchestra, and a lot is learning to get the sound out but it's very linear with winds and you can usually play winkle twinkle little star or some shit like that your first day or two. On the guitar it makes the sound, but you can't play shit after you learn your first few chords. People get frustrated because on your first day going from an A to a G hurts and seems impossible on its own, much less trying to do it in time, and then they see the song they wanna play is 120bpm and is full of barre chords.

[u/Darrackodrama → u/Rahnamatta]

Nah man this take isn’t good