question about guitar

[firestorm]

hey I just got a guitar yesterday and I was wondering if any of you guy who play guitar can tell me how to play?
it's an acoustic/electric guitar.

[Michael]

Learn how to tune it. Then learn how to tune it in a car, on a battlefield, and underwater. Tune it until you can tune it in your sleep. Then learn chords.

[Spencer]

First thing I learned was I Love Rock and Roll (picking) then Sweet Home Alabama (also picking) Then I started to learn chords and memorize major chords and minor chords and stuff.

EDIT: Also, learn to read tab.

[true_noir_chloe]

I learned by hanging out with a friend who played guitar. I still can't tune my guitar - unless I use a lot of effort - and I've been playing and writing music for over 30 years. I'm tuning deficient (wow, spelling too).

First thing, get yourself a chord chart and just copy what you see. Start out with the easy chords like, G, C and D. D is the ultimate easiest chord to play. Then work on Am and E, they're pretty easy too. After you do that you can definitely play "Lonely People" and many of the Eagles earlier songs, which are very simple. You can find one of their songbooks for probably pretty cheap.

The main things is in the first year of playing guitar the tips of your fingers will be sore. Don't worry, eventually you'll get these callouses that you can show off to your friends and they'll go, "Ooo did that hurt?" They're your guitar war scars. The girls will get all woozy... and okay. I'll tell you more about the guitar if you want later. For now, signing off.

[firestorm]

I learned by hanging out with a friend who played guitar. I still can't tune my guitar - unless I use a lot of effort - and I've been playing and writing music for over 30 years. I'm tuning deficient (wow, spelling too).

First thing, get yourself a chord chart and just copy what you see. Start out with the easy chords like, G, C and D. D is the ultimate easiest chord to play. Then work on Am and E, they're pretty easy too. After you do that you can definitely play "Lonely People" and many of the Eagles earlier songs, which are very simple. You can find one of their songbooks for probably pretty cheap.

The main things is in the first year of playing guitar the tips of your fingers will be sore. Don't worry, eventually you'll get these callouses that you can show off to your friends and they'll go, "Ooo did that hurt?" They're your guitar war scars. The girls will get all woozy... and okay. I'll tell you more about the guitar if you want later. For now, signing off.

thanx you guys, hey anyone know by any chance of some good sites where I could learn all this stuff? cause frankly, I don't even know what the chords are.

[andyroo]

D is the ultimate easiest chord to play.

No, E7 is by far the easiest chord one can ever play. Strings 6 through 3 are all strummed open.

Here's one I found that has more chords than anyone would know what to do with:Ultimate Guitar Chord Chart. Luckily, I have a chord chart on a small sheet of paper that came from some pocket Praise and Worship song book (spiral back). It has a few hundred chords.

[firestorm]

No, E7 is by far the easiest chord one can ever play. Strings 6 through 3 are all strummed open.

Here's one I found that has more chords than anyone would know what to do with:Ultimate Guitar Chord Chart. Luckily, I have a chord chart on a small sheet of paper that came from some pocket Praise and Worship song book (spiral back). It has a few hundred chords.

thanx, how do you read a chord chart though?

[andyroo]

Alright. In the chart I showed you. The 'x' means don't pick that string. Chord charts won't usually have that. The circle that looks like a degree indicates an open string; you don't put you finger on the string with the symbol above it.

The numbers indicate finger positions. I believe it goes along the lines: 1-index finger; 2-middle finger; 3-ring finger; 4-pinky finger. I may be wrong about that. I have a sheet that gives a numbering for the fingers, but I haven't been able to find it for years. The highest space, in between the first two horizontal lines, is the first fret. Go on from there to you second, third and so on. The highest shown on these charts is usually the 5th fret (no capo). The dots indicate the position of one of your fingers.

Please ignore the chords labeled with 'aug.', 'dim.', 'us.', and 'add'. The only ones you will need for now are those that have only the letter and nothing else (if you want you can also learn the '7th' chords too) then you can learn the minor chords labeled min. Now if the chord chart has an 'm.', then treat that as a normal chords such as an 'A' chord. It could also be written as 'Am' for 'A'major' chord. I have pretty much covered the chart details that I linked to.

[firestorm]

[quote="andyroo"]Alright. In the chart I showed you. The 'x' means don't pick that string. Chord charts won't usually have that. The circle that looks like a degree indicates an open string]

What represents the strings though?
is it the up and down lines?

[andyroo]

Yes. The vertical lines are the strings.

[firestorm]

Yes. The vertical lines are the strings.

you know I think we should be doing this on aim don't you? and what are the horizontal lines then?

[andyroo]

Yeah. Probably so since I'm the only one answering your questions right now. I just logged on.

[true_noir_chloe]

The horizontal lines are the frets. I'll try to pay attention to this thread and try to help you out. I pm'd with some stuff. E7 is easiest, I just learned the basic D and G combo when I first started playing and it broke in my fingers really well. I then went to the A and A7sus. Those are easy too. If you think about it, anything under three fingers is easy. *heh*