yeah try to play some before buying a guitar, you can bring a profession alongside yrself to help you pick a better one. Try to check if fretting is easy and soft and whiel holding a fret do the strings ring freely
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and through out your training and playin' times I strongly suggest you not to just get stuck on prepared song tablatures, they are great but dont forget to learn scales, improvise on some drum patterns, try to use ears and learn some melodies yrself very important to make you a non robotic guitar player