Depending on how you are dedicated to the same, it may take you long or very short time to learn how to play guitar. Playing guitar is a skill which is learned through keenness and perfected through practice. The following are the key steps:-

• Learn how to tune the guitar properly as per the song rhythm
• Learn how the guitar tabs are read
• Learn how to press and place the fingers on the guitar strings
• Learn how to strum with the other hand
• Practice the guitar chords

Practice how to play some songs slowly