Be prepared for your fingers to hurt like hell for the first month or so too.

Invest in a good metronome too.

Does it hurt the fingers if they use a nylon string guitar ?

If he’s interested, get him going on it. The earlier he can start the better in my opinion. Get him a guitar that he feels comfortable with – there are smaller sizes available. Nylon strings shouldn’t hurt his fingers. They’ll soon get conditioned to playing in any case.

Give him plenty of encouragement and make sure he gets some good lessons.

I’m sure he’s a great young guitarist in the making.

1. Buy a 6-string acoustic guitar with low action.

2. Practice playing the 15 basic open chords so you can switch back and forth quickly between them without looking: A, Am, A7, B7, C, C7, D, Dm, D7, E, Em, E7, F, G & G7.

3. Practice playing the E-barre on the first 12 frets, same with the Em-barre, the A-barre and the Am-barre.

4. Go to YouTube.com and look up how to play your favorite guitar songs.

You can definitely learn Bass Guitar without learning the Guitar first, you should have no problem with it.

If your trying to teach yourself, you may have a very hard time. It’s worth investing in proper teachers. My friend had started learning about the same time as me, and he quickly surpassed me in skill. He still rocks out harder than I can, and you can tell by the way he plays that he is very fluid and natural. He learned online with a pretty cheap program that took him all the way from point A to point B in very orderly lessons.

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If your looking for free online lessons, http://www.WholeNote.com seems to be pretty solid, although lessons aren’t that structured so you may be overwhelmed.

The reason that a classical guitar has such a wide neck is because it is designed for finger picking. This allows for more space between each string. That’s not to say you can’t strum a classical guitar, it’s just not really meant for that.

Also, you do not use a pick with a classical guitar, unless you want to break a lot of strings. This means that while you will be able to learn how to make chords and such, you will not be learning how to use a pick, or at least use one properly. This is another drawback to learning on a classical guitar.

Typically, I would recommend a beginner not trying to learn on a classical because statistically speaking, the most common reason that people stop playing guitar early into their learning experience is because they have a hard time playing. The easier the instrument is for you to play, the more likely you will stick with it. However, if you have true determination, then you may be OK with it. You’ll have to decide for yourself.

Don’t listen to people’s discouraging comment about how hard it is to teach yourself an instrument. This just means that they have not succeeded at it. Many people are self taught on many instrument, including me. I would, however, like to suggest having someone guide you a bit. Just to make sure that what you are teaching yourself is really correct and to also give you pointers on what aspects of the instrument you should concentrate on and which aspects aren’t as important.

Learning guitar isn’t just about learning how to make a few chords and strumming. You need to learn everything from proper tuning and string replacement to scales and different variations of each chord. Once you have learned this you can concentrate on more advanced aspects such as chord theory.