I’ve tried to learn playing guitar more than a year ago. I borrowed a classic guitar from my brother, who also started to play, but never really learned it. The guitar was not being used, so I could use it:)

My fate was the same.Now, more than one year after, I’ve again got the guitar in my hands. I had it returned to my brother and again borrowed it. There’s a learning book with it and I’ve put the cd on my iPod, so I can listed to the demonstration songs while playing the songs at the same time.

After a week, when I was playing on the guitar for about half an hour every day, I was fetching the guitar from the case and had to notice the bold E string has ripped off.

I had a day off on Friday and went to the local Rock Shop to buy a new set of guitar strings – around 10€. I spent an hour getting the new strings mounted and around one and a half times as much to tune up the strings. Notice: the new strings expand when there’s tension on the strings and it just takes a minute until the guitar sounds out of tune.

The most important lesson learned here is that a guitar with new strings sounds waaay better than before…