Self taught. Second hand acoustic, but there's an electric guitar I can borrow. No idea what I'm doing and what I should approach first.
Any advice?
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Self taught. Second hand acoustic, but there's an electric guitar I can borrow. No idea what I'm doing and what I should approach first.
Any advice?
Believe it or not, guitar for dummies is quite a good book to start with.
I thought the thread title said 'leaving' and I couldn't help but think "That's a weird reason to leave, I wonder what's up?" and then I realised.
D chord.
That comes in two months' time when I'm touring the World with my mad skills.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loony BoB
Okay first obstacle - tuning. It's ridiculously out of tune. I'm not going to be able to do this myself, am I?
We can learn together demondude55! I just bought a guitar as well!
Yeah you will need a 20 dollar battery operated tuner. I started by learning 'last kiss' the Pearl Jam version - easy strumming pattern and it's four non-barre chords (you will find out what this means with about fifteen minutes of google-fu)
There's also smartphone apps that are tuners, and they work terrifically.
I suppose there is that too.. I don't have a fancy smartphone and I work for a cell phone company.. hah
Okay so I have it slightly in-tune and now I'm stuck on chords.
There's a fair few dudes on Youtube who do all sorts of guitar tutorials for the absolute beginner. This guy is pretty decent
That Jason guy is really good.
And, well, yeah. Two strings = snapped. I needed it to be re-tuned properly anyway so we may as well throw a re-stringing on there as well. Balls.
A good place to start is to try and learn simple songs that you like; it should help to keep you interested in learning. Soon enough you can start watching more tutorials on stuff for technique and all that boring jazz. :p