Teaching yourself guitar (tips plz)

[Lamb]

So I got a guitar.. and after a day of attempting to tune it I've managed to get most of the strings in tune (excluding of course the one I managed to snap. )

Any tips for trying to teach yourself? or websites/vids/helpsssss

[Philfy Vermin]

http://easyguitar123.com

[Lamb]

LOLWUT

forgiiiive me for tryna ask the punkas crowd methods real PPL had had success with!

Why even any post if we can google all questions?!

[Philfy Vermin]

i dont know anything about guitar i was doing a joke on you

[Agnes]

Here's a few different approaches to starting to learn:

Get a tab of a song you like and learn to play it. Don't choose anything too challenging. search "Song name tabs" or "Band name tabs"

Watch a youtube tutorial of a song you like.

Listen to the song and try to figure out what they're doing. For this one you'll need hella patience, a computer or mp3 player that you can go back and listen again, pause, try it out, see if it's right, then start again. (This'll develop your musical ear and after a while you'll know what each note or chord sounds like without even playing it.)

Find a blues scale or something online and learn that inside and out, then make up some of your own shit. This'll make it easier to pick up songs that are based on the blues scale as well.


BUT make 100% sure your guitar is in tune or any of these methods will be frustrating as hell cause nothing'll sound right.

Seeing as this is a punk forum, you should probably learn a basic power chord.
Play this:
---
---
---
-2-
-2-
-0-

or this
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---
---
-3-
-3-
-1-
etc. further on up the fretboard. If you're not familiar with tab, the numbers are which fret to play (open being 0 ) and the strings are the different lines as they would appear if you were looking down at the guitar.

To make up a song the punk way, pick a phone number, yours or whatever then play those power chords to a rhythm of your choosing. So if your number was:
3850633, you'd play
- - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - -
-5 10 7 2 8 5 5 -
-5 10 7 2 8 5 5 -
-3 8 5 0 6 3 3 -

Hope this helps.

[Skoll]

Just fuckin smash it out.

[Agnes]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdETLii7sIY[/video]

[Skoll]

"........." - that's what a Norwegian black metal Viking is thinking right NOW !

[bruce wayne]

buy this and learn every song,after that you`ll be able to play anything..........

[TimShadbolt]

http://www.riversofgore.com/pit/

[godgrinder]

[Kev Japan]

[toothbrush]

creedence is a good start

[Lamb]

I'm not a guitar hero... yet!

Still needing to replace broken string... then Ed Sheeran songs.. heck yes!

[Dixon Cider A.C.]

No.

Do what Angus said.

[Agnes]

Fuckin Ron Weasley...
Start with some old school shit that will have a gazillion tabs and how-to videos.
It's going to take ages any which way you do it so don't make it harder than it needs to be.

[TimShadbolt]

If it all goes to shit, you could become a Youtube celebrity.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DbUPjEbIvA[/video]

Worst case scenario, you could become a Punkas celebrity.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwta6lga8Hk[/video]

[Lamb]

No.

Do what Angus said.

Is the plan :p



And make sweet liz shaw-esque youtubes???

[Dixon Cider A.C.]

No.

[nicola_yeah]

I teach myself on ultimate-guitar.com just chose the song i want and you can hover over the chords u dont know and it tells you where to put your fingers. BAM instant rockstar!

[Philfy Vermin]

+havnt you learned yet?