How long does it take to learn guitar

Maybe every second beginner in learning guitar make that question - how long does it take to learn guitar?

So, the answer depends on what level you want to reach in learning guitar. Maybe you just want to play chords on acoustic guitar, or maybe you want to play fast solos and have a great technique. And don’t forget about training with a teacher, because with the good teachers you can learn fast and effective rather than on yourself.

I can only suggest, how much it will take for learning guitar in different levels:
1) Simple chords and clean sound – from 2 months to 6 months
2) Rhytm electric guitar – depends on style, maybe from 3 months to 1 year.
3) Solo guitar – also depends on style, from 6 months to unknown terms. It will also depend on your motivation, and how long you want to learn guitar.

Of course, in learning time is not what you must think about. You must think about your quality, you must think about your soul. So, how long does it take to learn guitar, is not a question that you must think.

And for a good motivation, here’s the video from Youtube, Andy Timmons playing Electric Gypsy:

Mixing music books

Mixing music is not so easy as beginners think. I already wrote about music creating in earlier post. It requires a lot of experience in sound producing and years of work with sound. Mixing music books is a helpful material for beginners and others who found some problems with quality of their tracks.

So, from who you can learn?

1) David Gibson – The Art of Mixing

 Wonderful book and № 1 for all who want to learn art of mixing. David Gibson gives full explanation of mix and his visual system really helps to understand rules of mix.

2) Bobby Owsinski – The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook

 Bobby Owsinski created very informative book with many examples and illustrations, that makes learning of mixing very fast and simple. You will learn about 6 steps for mix and how to create your own style of mixing.

3) Bob Katz – Mastering Audio

 Bob Katz wrote a good book about mastering audio. But it’s also about preparing your mix for mastering and answers for questions about digital audio. Book is also have humour of Bob Katz, so the learning for readers is really enjoyable.

Recording electric guitar

Frequently beginners recording electric guitar commit a standard error – they incorrectly using the classical recording scheme of electric guitar. Sometimes quality of a sound turns out excessively disgusting, and guitarists can’t understand whole problems. Someone starts to think that a problem is in the bad equipment, or in bad home record.

Scheme is very simple and still will be used for a long time. Even digital devices use this scheme at sound processing. So, here it is:

I will explain more in detail: the sound taken from guitar, gets in the amplifier which amplify signal. Then the signal leaves a guitar cabinet (dynamics) and recording by microphone.

Mistakes that make beginners:

1) They forgetting about a guitar cabinet. The sound turns out sharp and really annoying.
2) Position of microphones near cabinet. Sound can differ from deaf to sharp.
3) Putting the amplifier after dynamics. Also bad sound.

Creating music (introduction)

Music is improbable displaying of human feelings and emotions. However quality of created music depends not only on feelings and emotions of the composer. It is not necessary to forget about performance level, idea of a composition, integrity, correct and competent mixing.

I have tried to show a dependence of abilities with reference to quality of created music:As you can see, parts are almost equal in rights, considerable deterioration in one of parts will affect to a whole quality of music

1. Performance

So, music begins with performance. No value, you write down live or draw notes in digital audio workstations(DAW) – performance should be equal and coincide with harmony of a musical track. At live record it is better to use a metronome though and at a virtual parts creation it will help to be guided better in a grid of notes.
Good performance consists not only in flatness of notes. It also consists in dynamics of performance. This note is louder, this is more silent. Or maybe some fast notes executed legato.
It is necessary to mention and performance elements. It can be chords, bends, slides, flageolets. All depends on the instrument on which the musical part is executed. More universal instruments are a guitar, piano. I think, it explains their popularity.

With the advent of Midi and VST it is possible to create music improbably approached to a real sound. Such companies as Native Instruments, ViR2, Steinberg, Toontrack let out excellent virtual instruments.

To be continued…