Learning Guitar

[GASoline71]

Something I always wanted to do. So I got this Strat Squire and a little Crate amp for a good deal... Want to teach myself to play. For a tiny amp... this thing can make some noise!

I know Butch can play...

Anybody have recommendations of a good learning program, books, DVD's, etc.?

Guitar Hero just ain't cuttin' it anymore.

Gary

 

[NeTree]

Practice.

Plenty of stuff to be found on the webz, bro!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Damn, a Squire is a POS, like a crappy saw. At least get a real strat and have it set up by a tech at your local music store.

 

[Knotahippie]

Good neck on that guit-fiddle, at least.

Decent, for the price.

 

[Paul B]

Check out Gary's cell phone! LOL Purty flowers!

 

[SkwerI]

And check out that amp! The volume knobs go all the way to eleven.

 

[Paul B]

FWIW Gary, when I tried to play guitar in my late teens, a buddy of mine just taught me a few songs using hammer-on If I remember correctly I knew Hell's Bells and Thunderstruck pretty well. Never learned a chord though. On a side note I have a guitar app on my Android phone, LOL. My kid likes it.

 

[rskybiz]

Check out Gary's cell phone! LOL Purty flowers!

I almost made the same comment LMAO

 

[Paul B]

Its ok, Gary and I are friends, he won't take the comment too seriously.

 

[squisher]

You best be watching out. Don't want a Sasquatch foot in your arse!

 

[Doc]

Damn, a Squire is a POS, like a crappy saw. At least get a real strat and have it set up by a tech at your local music store.

i disagree, bro, the modern entry level guitar is miles above the shite we learned on. This is plenty good to find out if he'll take to it, and with a few upgrades, could even be a real player. The only thing it lacks is resale value, because again, a perfectly servicable new guitar is so affordable nowadays.

 

[Knotahippie]

Guitar's pretty OK...

Drums are FUN!

 

[sawinredneck]

I told the wife the other night, I'm gonna learn guitar so I can get all the hot chicks! She laughed at me

 

[MasterBlaster]

Doc raises a good point!

We did have pretty shitty guitars when we were young.

At least have it set-up, that don't cost nuttin. It may come already set-up.

You tube has MILLIONS of 'how to' videos!

 

[Paul B]

Before you know it, you'll be famous!
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[Bounce]

Jeez, remind to take my stuff outside onto the deck before taking any pics I post here. And then I'm gonna zoom way in so you can't see anything else!

 

[SkwerI]

Check out Gary's cell phone! LOL Purty flowers!

Hey, if you walked into a bar and saw Sasquatch talking on that phone, would you have the balls to say anything?
I suspect he gets a lot of very respectful compliments on that phone.

 

[Paul B]

Hell no, but this is the internets!

 

[woodworkingboy]

Albert King made his first guitar out of a cigar box.

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[MasterBlaster]

So, what are you doing, Gary? Have you learned any chords yet? Update!

 

[Al Smith]

I can't add much because I'm rusty as an old gate hinge on the six string .The old fingers aren't as limber as they once were .

 

[SkwerI]

That guitar is too small for you, Gary. Here's one that is a little more appropriate.

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[MasterBlaster]

He should tune it first! Ha, cool axe.

 

[fishhuntcutwood]

That guitar is too small for you, Gary. Here's one that is a little more appropriate.

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I think that's the guy at Eldery tuning Gary's new axe!

Gary, I'm an accoustic guy, but I started off with learning basic chords. Learn like four and you can play most songs in this world. Get the callouses, muscle memory and such, and then I move up to individual picking notes. But like was said early in this thread, "practice" is what does it. I taught myself to play with nothing more than a chord book and then tablature; meaning, I can barely read proper music, which I know most players would recommend that I do, but for playing at my level, it works for me fine.

So how goes the battle?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Yes! Update, negro!!