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    Default So I'm learning to play guitar

    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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    Believe it or not, guitar for dummies is quite a good book to start with.

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    D chord.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
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    Okay first obstacle - tuning. It's ridiculously out of tune. I'm not going to be able to do this myself, am I?

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    We can learn together demondude55! I just bought a guitar as well!

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    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)

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    There's also smartphone apps that are tuners, and they work terrifically.

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    I suppose there is that too.. I don't have a fancy smartphone and I work for a cell phone company.. hah

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    Okay so I have it slightly in-tune and now I'm stuck on chords.

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    There's a fair few dudes on Youtube who do all sorts of guitar tutorials for the absolute beginner. This guy is pretty decent


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    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.

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    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.

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