Learning Guitar

GASoline71

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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... :dude:

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

Guitar Hero just ain't cuttin' it anymore. :lol:

Gary
 

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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.
 
Good neck on that guit-fiddle, at least.

Decent, for the price.
 
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.
 
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.
 
I told the wife the other night, I'm gonna learn guitar so I can get all the hot chicks! She laughed at me :lol:
 
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!
 
Before you know it, you'll be famous! :)
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:lol: 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!
 
Check out Gary's cell phone! LOL Purty flowers! :P

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

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

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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?
 
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