* It’s not as easy as A B C *

Maybe you can buy a cheap guitar from ebay ? or ask a friend to lend it to you ?

My Bf learnt everything he knows from a book thou =)

I’m a self-taught guitarist and I can tell you that it will be a bit challenging. Haha but what else is new, right? My suggestion to you is to go buy a $100 First Act guitar and play around with that. But actually try to learn songs you like. If you’re solely messing around, you tend to get bored. Once you play for a while, you’ll know whether or not you’re interested in continuing. But seeing as you play piano and violin haha…I think you’ll be pretty well off.

Good Luck!

well i learned bass guitar so that helped me a bunch…..
the first four strings of a bass is E, A, D, G so is the first 4 stings of a guitar

i heard violin was backwards (G, D, A, E) so that will be confusing

but since i already knew how to read notes it was really easy for me to learn guitar
i’m still not like a professional but i can play a lot of songs on acoustic guitar

electric guitar is nicer on the fingers, and easier to move up and down on the string

i learned from a book also
but most books only show the actual notes in the first book
then they get into tabs in like the second book

TABS ARE EASIER TO READ THAN THEY LOOK

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com (i look here 98% of the time. really good site)
http://www.911tabs.com
http://www.youtube.com (sometimes people cover songs then post a link on the side to where they have tabs or people teach you how to play songs in the video)
http://www.guitarpraise.blogspot.com (if you’re into christian music)

you may feel skeptical towards reading tabs (i was when i first saw them). it’s completely different from sheet music. but you’ll get the hang of it
it’s not hard

you shouldnt right away learn tabs and stuff. at least get through the beginners book. beginning books teach you like 5-10 chords that are really easy.

if you really love guitar and want to pursue it, then go to intermediate, advanced, etc. tabs dont really teach you much about guitar

once you learn the beginners book then look for tabs/chords for these songs:

bubbly by colbie caillat
yellow submarine by the beatles
you and me by lifehouse
she could be you by shawn hlookoff (uses same chords as you and me)
smoke on water by deep purple
iron man by black sabbath (?)
lovebug by the jonas brothers (kinda hard so try it after you’re comfortable with the other songs)
lyrical lies by cute is what we aim for
kiss me by sixpence none the richer

sorry if my info was not organized. i just added stuff as i went along when i remembered it