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user-inactivated  ·  4008 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Anyone Know Anything About Learning Classical Guitar?

Classical guitar is a beast. Good luck. Taught myself guitar by starting out with just basic scales in every position. Started with major diatonic (ionian), went to aeolian minor, then through the modes- dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian, locrian.

Can get monotonous, but it really hammers home proper fingering, note placement, voicing. That'll help with just guitaring in general. That said, I know nothing about learning proper classical guitar. Classical guitar generally uses its own pick/fingering technique. The strings are harder to push down because the action on those classical guitars (is it nylon?) is so high. And I still have yet to get the hang of a lot of chords on acoustic guitars, as my finger strength isn't where it should be. Eesh. So again, good luck.

Beautiful sound, though, those nylon string guitars. I mean, you could always toss the idea of learning real classical and just learn guitar on the classical. It'll also make you a shredder on electric since that's so much easier to play.