Even if your home studio is not yet prepared with acoustic adaptation you can always look for  "ways out" to record acoustic guitars in acceptable quality. 

Here is a try with Audio Technica ATM450 cardioid condenser microphone (199 Eur, new) via TC Electronic Desktop Konnekt  Firewire interface (80 Eur, used)
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Everyone of us learning an instrument needs to spend hundreds and hundred of hours for what...?  The answer is clear - to play some nice music for our own pleasure and hopefully for others' too. That is the final goal of all practice. Whether it's live gig or it's studio recording session or just family party...  You must get there one day prepared to do your best and perform with your full potential what you practiced. 

Hi Guys, this is first article on my new guitar blog. I was thinking how to organize so huge challenge like learning and mastering an instrument - guitar - in my case, and learning music in general.

Since the thing is so wide let's slit it to smaller pieces that we can digest one by one. That's why I divide the subject of learning the instrument in 3 parts:

1. Physical skills - what you do with your body: muscles, bones, hands,fingers.  This is technique of playing and is very important on any instrument. 
2. Aural skills - what you hear and how you hear sounds. Ability to know what is going on in the music and equally important skill to "imagine" the sounds in your head before you even play them. This includes interval ear training, harmonic ear training and spectral ear training  in both directions; passive and active.
3. Mental skills - knowledge or theory learned and memorized.  Forms of the pieces, chord changes, memorized music repertoire, theory behind chords, scales and improvisation techniques.

Now before we go on deeper in details about all three parts let's state the 1st rule of practicing: