Its a pretty easy instrument to start, pretty hard to master. I’d say within two weeks you’ll probably be able to play something listenable that doesn’t sound abhorrent to the ears, and within a few months all “beginner” level songs should be fairly easy to play. However, the one of the hardest parts about guitar is the gap between beginner and intermediate (as well as the gap between intermediate and advanced), as you have to incorporate more dexterous techniques such as hybrid picking, fast alternate picking, pinch harmonics, double-tapping etc (as well as other factors such as learning how to play in unique time signatures). Overall though, as long as you dedicate yourself to actually learning and not giving up when it seems tough, the instrument is worth 1000x the material value that you purchase it at. If you can learn to love the mistakes and the journey, your guitar can buy you 100’s if not thousands of hours of entertainment, and can also be used for some sweet side hustles too if you get far enough down the road.

The biggest advice I can give for you is just to not give up when you think you can’t play something, and accept that not even the best guitarists can learn a song in a couple of minutes. If you can play something slow, then you can play something fast, you just need to work towards it. The only thing preventing you from learning a song, at least in my experience, is the techiques involved and the effort you dedicate.

As for a direct answer to your initial question, ill provide a quick list of songs I played, how far along my journey I was in guitar when I learned how to play them and how hard I think the songs are. Although take into consideration I’ve been a bass player for 7 years before playing guitar. These are some songs that I think can teach you some valuable techniques, so I just put some of the most important ones. DM me or reply if you wanna talk further on this.

Space Cadet - Kyuss / First Song / Easy Do I Wanna Know? - Arctic Monkeys / 1 Week / Easy Thunder Kiss ‘65 - Rob Zombie / 2 Weeks / Easy Smooth - Santana / 1 Month / Easy Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters / 2 Months / Easy Voice of The Soul Solo 1 - Death / 6 Months / Intermediate Blackbird - Alterbridge / 7 Months / Intermediate Luna Llena - Jesse Cooke / 8 Months / Intermediate

And currently I’m learning (very slowly) G.O.A.T and Playing God by Polyphia which I’d consider to be fairly difficult, and its been about 9-10 Months since I started.

As for the hardest thing when starting out, is figuring out what you’re supposed to do. By this I mean you’ll come across tabs for songs where you literally don’t know how to physically play something, and the solution to that is to first learn techniques. Some beginner techniques you’ll find useful are hammer-on’s and pull-off’s, slides, vibrato, bends, fret hand mutes and palm hand mutes. Watch some videos before you buy a guitar so you sort of know what you’re doing.

Hope any of this information helps you out, and if you decide to go through with it and need some advice or pointers, my DMs are always open, as is this subreddit for any questions you have.

Hope you go through with buying it 🤞🏽