Ant

bought myself an entry level countryman guitar today and a beginners book.

I've never played an instrument at all, can anyone recommend a good youtube channel or a tuner i could put on the iphone.


any advice for a newbie would be much appreciated

the shreksta

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when you have picked up the basics get yourself a few tabs to learn some of your favorite songs,this is how my mate taught himself to play

davegtt

I play the organ and always wanted to play the guitar. I have a Polish friend who gave me a few lessons and unbelievably playing the guitar really hurts my fingers. Bit gutted tbh

nyscooby

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Repetition is the only way to do it.

Learn your scales.. then repeat.

yabbadoo4

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forget scales just now, learn 3 chords and play lots of songs for a while. you,ll be amazed how many you can play with just 3.

toneh

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Look on you tube for a guy called Marty Schwartz
He does loads of stuff , from beginners to more advanced
And like before learn three or four chords and you'll soon be playing plenty of songs
The quicker you can knock out a Recognisable tune the less Likley you will get disheartend and bored

Good luck mate & stick at it

Ant

ive gone through the 2 bottom strings and getting comfortable switching between two.

keeping at it is the key i think .

what songs us efg and bcd? thats all ivr grasped this evening

the shreksta

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what sort of music do you like? my mate learnt himself by playing lots of metallica

think his 1st was this

Ant

if i can play everlong by foo fighters by next year ill be happy

ScoobyWon't

And if you can't, go back to playing the pink oboe

Ant

scud8

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Make sure you give it at least six weeks, practising at least every day or so (preferably every day). It takes that long for the small muscles in your fingers to build up strength, so it can feel like you are getting nowhere initially, but stick with it.

I would recommend getting some lessons as it is easy to pick up bad habits when starting out, which you will have to unlearn later on.

I'd also recommend getting a copy of Guitar Pro (http://www.guitar-pro.com/en/index.php) and downloading tabs for your favourite songs from ultimate guitar (http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/). Everlong is a good initial target - great song, not too hard to learn, but you will have to tune the guitar to drop-D.

Ant

Nice one ! Ill check them sites out

David Lock

Very best if luck. Do stick it out for a couple of months and you may well surprise yourself - and your fingers will toughen up

If you haven't got a decent music shop near you then have a look through www.stringsdirect.co.uk Just great to browse through and for basic stuff like tuners and strings.

A lesson would be well worth it and teachers will be used to complete beginners.


David

PS. I am told there is a guitar tuning phone app.

IWatkins

Got an iPad? GarageBand on that with a USB enabled guitar is very good to play on without pissing the neighbours or family off. I.e. an electric guitar and headphones hooked up to iPad so you can also do all the pedal effects etc.

E.g. http://store.apple.com/uk/product/HA...ocaster-guitar

Ant

nah it doesnt have anything like a usb port, just a bog standard acoustic

Kwik

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I play a little (guitar) and have started to teach my 6yr old Son. I've found that learning the famous "everyone knows" easy tab like...
Smoke on the Water
Seven Nation Army
Sunshine of your Love
has really kept his interest up. Its taught him fret's and fret numbers, movement between notes and the timing of hitting the note at the point his finger presses the fret. And of course its started to toughen up the ends of his fingers.

Ant

ive managed to suss a little bit of everlong intro its' going to be a long process

zip106

Status Quo have managed 40 years on just 3 chords.

WRX_Dazza

Heeeyyyyy !! hahhaha that bloke is quality...

also check out justinguitar !!

good luck and keep practising....then practise some more...
get a guitar stand and make sure your guitar is on show... it will encourage you to pick it up whenever you walk past it !! (as opposed to locking it away in a cupboard)

Enjoy !!

farmerwrx

+1 for Marty Schwartz

urban

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+1

Also, for inspiration Look up Doug Aldrich on youtube.

mike1210

This one you don't want to begin with!!!

David Lock

Shredder

SiPie

Taught myself by following Peter J Findlays videos (sure they'll now be on DVD )


http://www.online-guitar-lesson.uk.com/

Great teaching method and think he covers most styles

Jazzy Jefferson

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Is all standard Drop-D power chords.
However the rhythm makes it quite difficult to nail exactly.

Ant

It's not so standard to me, I've never played an instrument since Sunday afternoon

Jazzy Jefferson

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How do you know you've sussed out the intro then...?
My advice is to start with green day Similar but far easier (a lot of their material is in standard tuning, rather than drop-d.) Foo Fighters stuff often has complicated rhythms which you don't notice until you start to try learning it.

Ant

Erm because it sounds like it should

Kwik

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