Many who wants to start playing any musical instrument asks around and see how others got started.
many questions were raised, any the first of them would probably is, "can I learn that by myself?"

this poll is actually to show those who will be learning in near future and those who might want to learn in further future how musicians got started.


do post a reply on the instrument that you play and how to got started...


to start off,

Instrument: Guitar
Method: 1

learn by myself by getting a chord book that cost rm2.50 at my time,and that was around 6 years ago.
achievement so far,i composed songs not for music industries, just my hobby. Played for a few churches. taught quite a lot of people how to play guitar before. played for events for schools like those convo nights, freshie nights, even for other schools...

erm...that's all.

PS: learning guitar by yourself isnt as hard as you think it is.

the standard tuning of guitar is E. which is the tune of the first and the last string.
drop D means tune the guitar so that the key is in D for the first and the last string.
and by changing those 2 strings only, it will sound REALLY weird for most songs(some songs require only tuning of of the strings), so, you will need to tune all the strings.

one of the shortcut (not really recomended) to down tune to D is, put your capo on the first fret and tune it according to the standard tuning. when you take off the capo, it should down tune to D already.

really? lolz... never tried playing songs what requires changing of tune, just what i heard from my fellow guitarists when i was in secondary school...
sorry for the wrong info guys...