Musicfags, how do I actually learn guitar or piano on my own...

Keep at it user. The best years are yet to come. Been playing for more than a decade but I still know nothing.

Thanks user :) you should keep at it too

I do ! Weekly at that with my band. Just some lyricless blackmetal going nowhere, but that's how we like it. To each his own. Thru the guitar I learned to love other music than metal and I hope others will too.

It is a great instrument. I wish for you one day to play and play and impress yourself with what your fingers are doing.

I do bass in my band, but might switch to doing lead guitar stuff bc we lost our lead player and finding a good bassist wont be too difficult; we know a few. It's also done the same for me, i used to only listen to metal and all that but have expanded my tastes.

Depends on what you want to do. If you just want to play songs, tabs are alright but you should probably do some fingerings exercises first, just to becoms fluid in your movements. Learning chords is a good start too, some tabs won't care enough to tell you which position the guitarist is actually playing and there are several ways of playing the same chord, so it's important to know which hand positions are viable. I'd recommend watching tutorial videos and trying to emulate their positions. If you want to ompose music and stuff, then you need to know the positions of everything to the 12th free. Since you know violin already, it should be easy and it "will" give you the ability to play solos and stuff.

>8 years violin
>can't figure out guitar

you must fucking suck at violin.

They aren't really the same.
4vs6 strings
Frets vs no fret
Pic/hand vs their bow