[WillowTheWhisp]

So, are you going for chords now to accompany tunes/singing, rather than playing the melodies themselves? Learning to read music for guitar really isn't hard at all. It's a lot easier than reading piano music. If you can spread your fingers wide and hold down the strings on the frets playing is really easy.

But no Tinks they don't come ready tuned from the shop. The strings slacken all the time and constantly need retuning. And of course every time you replace a broken string it needs tuning. You can get an electronic thingummy to tune it to if you don't have a natural ear.

The chords and tabs that Shakermaker is talking about are entirely different to playing the recognisable tunes. They are used for accompanyment and that's easier than playing the melodies but if you get really good you can do both at the same time.