<t>Hi, I am mikerino and I like to play my guitars. I am 47 and have re-picked up the guitar about a year ago, I used to play when I was a kid but never well. I am learning along with my girlfriend and she never picked one up before. I am practicing Goodbye Blue Sky, Is There Anybody Out There and S...

<t>Wow I didn't know I was going to get so much help. Thanks everyone. I have an acoustic with a .10 guage E string and an electric with very small guage strings. The electric is the gentler of the two but other people play both of them and think they are fine. I like the suggestion of getting them ...

<t>I practice almost every day and I have been for over a year and still I get caluses on my fingers to the point that the strings get stuck in the cracks then they fall off and I get new ones. I have to stop playing sometimes because it hurts. I am practicing Goodbye Blue Sky, Is There Anybody Out ...

Thanks guys, that should get me started.

In one of Neil's videos he says that it can take six months to a year to learn to do bar chords. Does anyone have advice about how to get started? Some exercizes or something?
Thanks.