“The good news is there’s not much between you and Joni Mitchell – besides thousands of hours of practice, a little music industry luck, and, of course, these first few furtive steps…”: Where to start with learning acoustic guitar

To borrow a song title from Radiohead’s worst album, anybody can play guitar. The world is full of virtuosic talents and genre-pushing pioneers, but they all had to start from the same place: knowing absolutely nothing about the instrument they would come to partially define.

You might be planning to start your own journey with the acoustic guitar, but feeling a little awe-struck by the potential of the instrument. The good news is there’s not that much between you and Joni Mitchell – besides thousands of hours of practice, a little music industry luck, and, of course, these first few furtive steps into learning the acoustic guitar.

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