The guitar is a cool instrument to learn, and more people than ever are trying to master it now. People tend to think that learning the guitar will be easy though, they see it only has 6 strings compared to the 70+ keys on a piano, and they assume they can master it quickly - which is not the case at all. First of all you need to get a good course to follow like the one discussed in this Jamorama review, or pay for lessons. Then you need to practice what you learn every day, as much as you can, to help build up the strength of your fingers and their dexterity, as well as allow you to move between chord shapes easily. Then you need to spend time to wrap your head around the theory side of music, how to read music, how to read tab, what time signatures are, what scales are etc. I think the biggest problem people have when learning the guitar is practice. They assume that after an hour they will be sounding good and can then build on that skill, except you will probably be buzzing the strings for the first week as you learn, then every time you learn a new chord you will struggle with it, so practice doesn't always sound great, but it is necessary. Even just changing between chords is going to require hours of dedicated practice so you can actually do it fast enough to play a recognizable song, and it may takes months to do it for enough chords to play a small repertoire of songs. So I guess I am saying that yes if you want to learn the guitar then it is cool, it is fun and you can do it, but go into the process expecting it to be slow and painful at first or you'll just quit when you don't get fast results.

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