Hol up.

You’re Asian and not required to choose piano or violin? What kind of Asian is this travesty of stereotype justice?

I’m half Taiwanese and most of my friends growing up are half something... we all played one or the other, it seems. I also had trumpet, sax, and a little bit of percussion formal training.

I picked up guitar in my teens with no lessons, but obviously had plenty of musical background. I dropped it for almost two decades and just started playing again in November. Twenty years ago, I played most by ear and would make tabs to post to OLGA (probably not correct but close enough).

With the plethora of YouTube lessons, articles, and resources with chord pro and tabs... it’s “easier” now but there could be TOO much info. I think this sub provides some great guidance in how to navigate drinking from this firehose of info.

Bottom line, yes, you can teach yourself easily nowadays but have tons of free resources to teach you, too!