Many people want to play a musical instrument, and the guitar is a great choice. It's small, mobile, cool and loads of fun when playing to your friends and family. These are the reasons why many people start, but many people fail. Why? Because most beginner guitarists go about practicing the wrong way, and end up quitting after a short while.
The correct way of learning how to play the guitar is the following: First learn the very basics:
The 8 essential beginner guitar chords (G and C major, and the major and minor variations of E, A, D).
Basic strumming.
Alternate picking of strings, along with some lead guitar techniques (hammer-on, pull-off, vibrato).
Now for the most important part! While you are learning, don't just practice the techniques and chords in their purity, but do so by practicing songs that you love! This is where most people go wrong, and eventually quit. Just practicing by itself, is, well, boring for most people. However, there are tons of very popular songs even beginner guitarists can play, which has major benefits:
Practicing and playing songs you love is much more motivating, than practicing single techniques.
While you play your chosen song, you'll not only be practicing the needed guitar techniques, you'll be having fun, since you'll be playing a song you love. This is key!
There are many songs which beginners can play, which causes a sense of achievement to beginner guitarists. This motivates you to play even more.
As you perfect a song, you'll want to learn new ones, and thereby practice new chords, new techniques, and inevitably, advance your guitar skills.
Once you have your initial sense of satisfaction from being able to play simple songs, you'll want to advance you technique naturally on your own, and learn more complicated ones.
With time, you will be interested to know why the song sounds the way it does, why a given chord follows the previous, so you'll want to start learning about guitar theory on your own as well.
At the end of the day, it all comes down to how much you practice.
But practice you will, since you'll find that playing songs you love will cause a real sense of achievement, and the best part is, that it can come very quickly with beginner guitar songs. You see, it really is all about motivation and achievement. Learning to play the guitar by practicing songs is the best means of learning the guitar in a fun and motivating way.
GUITAR TIP: Buy a guitar that you love, and have it out where you can see it. This makes you want to pick it up more, and play it more often.
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