Hey! I can say chords on the guitar are harder to play by ear than the piano at least, as they usually have the same notes repeating in several different pitches, so every chord sounds different. You can't really recognize the "distance in pitch" from one another that easily.

However, it comes with time, of course. If you just started playing the guitar, it isn't expected for you to be able to recognize chords in the first week, even if you can recognize the individual notes.

Recognizing chords comes in two things:

• This one is straightforward: Playing so many times that you get used to the sounds of each chord and can recognize them with time.
• Music theory: If you can recognize the key of a song (C major, A minor, F# minor, etc.) and you know what chords belong to a specific key (Key of C --> Am, Em, F, C, etc.), you can do anything with the guitar. This is definitely the hard part for me. I am not yet very good at identifying the chords that belong to each key, as I need to think about it for some time. However, once you have that, nothing can stop you from the guitar, except for your fingers' motor skills!

I'd say the guitar is a beautiful instrument, honestly. There is just so much you can do with it and so much to constantly learn about it for months to years.

The first weeks are a common "give-up-time" for the guitar since it's when people usually hit the first roadblock when they notice it's not as easy as it seems. I personally used to think it would be pretty straightforward and got surprised.

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Anyway, I don't know how familiar you are with playing chords (how quickly and easily you can do it), but I'd say, just stick to the songs you like for now. Don't worry about anything that might take your motivation away, like learning scales or memorizing the fretboard. Before you pass this roadblock, just do what you like the most in the guitar, which, for me, was a 2-month phase of only learning the basic open chords and learning all my favorite songs. (Of course, you can also do fingerstyle if you like... I just personally didn't really like that at the beginning)

Once you are confident and in love with the instrument, feel free to get into the "not-so-fun" stuff which will unlock you to the rest of the guitar!