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?
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.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
D chord.
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
there was a picture here
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.