I'd actually suggest that you read a lot - and that you take 1 to 6 months of professional lessons, preferably from someone who specializes in classical guitar. However, that seems unlikely to happen.
So, read a lot... Watch a lot of videos. Pay VERY close attention to what you're doing. What you want, more than anything else, is a clean tone. In other words, you want to avoid muting strings by accident and not fretting properly - so that you end up with a buzz. Practice until you're clean - then worry about speed.
Don't worry about speed - it'll happen on its own. Instead, slow and metered.
It's really not easy to convey this stuff in plain text.
Well if you ever felt the need to say it I do run a mumble server that I host myself. Perhaps sometime if you ever get the time you could do a quick lesson for me. outside of that I will take your advice I will read a lot I'm good at that. I'm also very good at copying what I can see, so I'm betting if I watch some classical guitarist on youtube I can probably pick it up.
https://www.uberchord.com/blog/10-tips-technique-how-to-play-the-guitar/
https://www.guitarhabits.com/how-to-hold-a-guitar-proper-posture-and-hand-positioning/
https://www.libertyparkmusic.com/5-must-know-fretting-techniques-for-beginner-guitarists/
Those are some starter form articles that are worth reading.
Note: Very few people just 'pick it up.' It's usually thousands of hours and I'd say that I wasn't a good guitarist until about a decade's worth of learning. I do have high standards, but a decade seems to be pretty common. Prior to that, I was able to perform but I'd not really call myself good. I'd say 'passable' is an appropriate term. I'd fool a layman into thinking I was good - but a skilled guitarist would see that I was still very early on in my learning process.
It also helps if you have friends to jam with. I'm assuming your real goal is to have fun and not actually to dedicate your life to becoming the next Django Reinhardt.
It would be nice to have friends to jam with, the bummer on that one is I don't really have any friends I have devoted myself to work for so long I don't really know how to have friends, poal is the most hobby type thing I have done in over a decade really. I am doing this because I want to learn better how to do things that are not work, learn to do things for fun again. Life doesn't have to be all work I am pretty sure there is room there for fun, I'm pretty good at family or at least I would like to think I am. So I am picking this up as my first real hobby, I'm pretty sure it'll be fun who knows maybe along the way I'll find some people too jam with. Honestly now that I think about it that could be a good site to start, an online jam session website. You could probably develop hardware specific for it and set up virtual rooms for people to jam in. Well there I go again. Now I have to add another thing to my list of sites I want to create.
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