Any guitar players out there?

[Darkwood]

You want challenging try anything by knopfler

Thats next week ... yes Im a big fan of his work love 'private investigations' amongst many of his tracks; I bought that album on vinyl as a kid.

 

[High Tower]

Sailing to Philadelphia is unbelievably hard, it's the subtle detail that's hard to master

 

[GMES]

Here's my Baby










The best Air Guitar money can buy.

 

[Darkwood]

Here's my Baby










The best Air Guitar money can buy.

I had one for 25yrs but lost it ... looked a bit like yours TBH

 

[GMES]

I had one for 25yrs but lost it ... looked a bit like yours TBH

Bloody good reply, Made me chuckle
But on a serious note, good on you for taking the plunge.

 

[Darkwood]

Just the fact I've lived around music, gigs and I have a lot of friends in bands so kinda getting influenced in every direction and needed a hobby to master and Im patient and a determined .... and I've just purchased a very rare 'Pic of Destiny' .... my boozy bud Jack Black gave me it

 

[Marvo]

.....Bought an acoustic steal guitar

My target music style will be classical .... I would like to play various styles but know its going to be many yrs before I can throw out some good finger picking

I'd recommend you buy yourself a cheap and cheerful classical guitar with nylon strings. The wider neck and the softer action strings make it easier to learn on and it's much better suited for finger picking as well. The steel string acoustics can be used for finger picking but they're better suited to a pick/plectrum.

 

[High Tower]

I'd recommend you buy yourself a cheap and cheerful classical guitar with nylon strings. The wider neck and the softer action strings make it easier to learn on and it's much better suited for finger picking as well. The steel string acoustics can be used for finger picking but they're better suited to a pick/plectrum.

Marvo has sausage fingers lol

 

[Dcf]

My best pearl of wisdom to anybody who wants to play the guitar is buy a tuner!
standard tuning is fine ,never mind with some alternative turnings which are prelavent in finger picking styles btw at the moment.
if your guitar is out of tune it will sound rubbish and if your learning you'll lose heart and put it away.
i don't seem to have the time just now to play which ticks me off as I still love a good belt on the guitar.
had a wee drunken jam with the oldest one on Saturday and it's got musical appetite back tbh.
i was at a job last week and managed to amaze the painter by getting a tune out of a harp
now not many people have one of them lying about the lounge!
looked a bugger to tune though....

 

[trev]

I've been playing since I was 8 and have just added a Scheckter to my collection. I'm also delving into classical pieces and I have to say that the nylon stringed suggestion above is probably the best advice you'll get.
Nylon strings are much better suited to the pieces you'll be attempting.
Also, if you can't read tablatrure get hold of one of the "how to" guides, there's a shed load of them out there on the net. You'll be surprised how easy tab is once you get your head around it. There are also guides on how to learn to read music notation.