Learning Guitar

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LMAO... I will admit Butch... your first post pissed me off a little. But I got over it. :)

I just got back in to town last night from a 3 day trip to my parents place. I was lookin' in the bag of goodies that my buddy had with the guitar and came across this. No AC adapter... no extra cords... no nothin'. I have no idear what it is. A tuner?

I'm gonna try to bang out some cords this week. There is a "music shop" in town... but I don't know if they "set up" guitars, as was described earlier. He also tossed in an extra set of strings.

Oh... BTW... I went and included the cell phone in this pic too... for the LOL... :lol: (it's my daughters... )

Gary
 

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I didn't mean to piss you off. It's just harder to learn on a cheap guitar. They usually hurt your fingers and the sound is not the same.

Good luck on "banging out chords!" Chords are a bitch. The only cure is practice practice practice. They really do have some amazing free lessons on youtube.

And yea, that's a tuner.
 
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I've been perusing youtube and holy shit is there a lot of vids for learnin'! :)

I need to figger out how this tuner works. been lookin' online for some kind of intruction sheet. Fender's website is kind of a bitch to navigate, and their search thingy is not workin' all that great. I found an owners manual for the Squire on there though... :)

I'm lookin' to more play hard rock and metal "power chords" and the like...

Gary
 
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Thanks for that online tuner mang! Works great!

Only been a couple of days and my fingers are a little sore. found some vids on youtube with excercises to learn picking, fret work, and scales... just to get my fingers a little more limber. :)

So far so good!

Gary
 
It's all muscle memory, Gary. Practice, practice, practice - repeat, repeat, repeat!

I promise you, sooner than you'll know it, it'll snap with you and you'll get it. It's that acquiring the muscle memory that's (initially) a bitch. That, and developing the callouses so you can play comfortably. That's where having easy action comes in handy.

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After that, you need to set your intonation.
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2 good vids mang! Wow... I gots a lot to learn just about guitars in general. I'm a singer. So this is my fisrt step into the fray of guitars.

Gary
 
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I do... I got buds that play guitar, and buds that play bass. The bass guys are always catchin' hell from the guitar guys. One cat I know has always called the bass the "Tool of Ignorance"... :lol:

Gary
 
Gary, here's a nice easy song for you to start with. Just some basic chords, you can play it easy. 8)

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I actually could play half ass at one time .Learned on an old Ricenbacker flat top with steel wound black diamond strings that would cut the old fingys like razor blades .They got tough though after a while .

It's not so much the chords but the changes .You'll get it after a while though if you hang with it .

Back in the late 60's early 70's when Dylan was popular I got into finger picking which is my prefered style and as such it's been nylon strings since on a relitively good sounding guit fiddle my ex bought me . Hmm since all this talk I might have to see if I can still do it .Been a long long time .:)
 
'Texas Flood'....nice moody song. I don't think that Gary can ever play quite up to Stevie Ray, since dropping out of high school was a prerequisite, but if you ever do, I'll fly over there to change a tire for you, don't want anything bad happening to those fingers. :)

Good luck with it!
 
If'n you upgrade to a smartphone you could practice anywhere!
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here is someone goofing around with the app for Android, same phone model as I currently have. :)
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I took delivery of a squire strat today for my son's birthday next week. I had a little go on it today. It's a cheap instrument, but the action is great for the price. As butch says, a guitar straight off the shelf needs to be set up well. I've been learning guitar for 29 years!
 
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Guitar's pretty OK...

Drums are FUN!
Click to expand...

I wiped my drums down, put new heads and a new double pedal on the bass drum, moved some cymbals around and tried to retune everything. The only thing I didn't do was actually strike anything with a drumstick. The women folk don't much care for the noise. I have an electric Yamaha set which I play daily but it just isn't the same. :(

I should find a tougher looking pillow for the bass drum...
 

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They sound awesome. I got one of these for mine. Fender Rumble 75 bass amp. I know nothing about amps but this one goes real loud.
 

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