Not hard at all. Ive been playing about 13 years, its very easy to learn chords, and scales. Once you learn that, you can play whatever you want alot of songs are based off of 3 or 4 chords, especially old ones. And you can get tabs off of http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/ and that is very easy to understand, and it makes it alot funner to play songs you know. But youll always be learning, if you really enjoy it, youll be like me, i still play everyday, and love it. good luck, hope you try.