Learning Guitar
For context, I’m seventeen, and I’ve been playing piano for around 10 years and violin for 5, and I took voice lessons for two years in middle school. I know music theory well, and I’m very familiar with chord progressions and in general how stringed instruments worked. I looked up a beginner guitar video on YouTube, and was a little bored, as it was all about tuning, where to put fingers for basic chords, basic strumming patterns, and things like that. All this feels self-explanatory to a point? Like, on chord charts, you put your fingers where the black dots are, and don’t strum the strings that that have x’s on them. Strumming patterns also feel kind of self-explanatory if you understand how rhythmic notation works. I’m not looking to be a guitar prodigy, just knowledgeable enough to play some songs. Is there anything I need to know that I can’t already reason from the knowledge I already have of music and stringed instruments?