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[regal8r 5,000+ posts]

whats the easiest way to learn (teach myself). im tryin to learn tabs right now and part of the song that im trying to play, it sounds NOTHING like the actual song. im sure my guitar is probably out of tune, but would it throw off the sound THAT much

guitar is a fender dg-6 acoustic...it was free..

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[UndercoverPunk 5,000+ posts]

get a ****ing tuner first and formost, if it's out of tune nothing will ever be right.

Learn to read music, learn the notes by ear, but do not learn tabs, all that is is repetition.

 

[jimmclrk1 10+ year member]

Yeah. Buy a tuner.

 

[regal8r 5,000+ posts]

get a ****ing tuner first and formost, if it's out of tune nothing will ever be right.
Learn to read music, learn the notes by ear, but do not learn tabs, all that is is repetition.

how can i teach myself to read music? im too poor for lessons lol

 

[UndercoverPunk 5,000+ posts]

how can i teach myself to read music? im too poor for lessons lol

Books?

 

[regal8r 5,000+ posts]

Books?

in middle school, i couldnt be taught to read music for shit, so im pretty sure a book wont help me

 

[UndercoverPunk 5,000+ posts]

well then kill yourself.

Learn the notes by ear, learn to associate the the tone to where it's located on the fretboard.

That's a huge step. I learned by playing tabs. Don't learn by tabs.

 

[regal8r 5,000+ posts]

which is easier to learn on? acoustic or electric?

 

[UndercoverPunk 5,000+ posts]

same. IMO.

 

[regal8r 5,000+ posts]

should i learn basic chords/power chords and know them by heart before trying to play parts of songs?

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

http://chordguide.com/guitar/basic_guitar_chords.asp

practice playing regular chords, a b c d e f g, just play each one like 8 times, and go to the next one on that list.

do that until you can get it easy. also another exercise is learning a progression such as the blues progression.

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/lessons/music_styles/blues_scales_and_progressions.html

just do simple chord strumming, and simple picking, and learn how to manuver your fingers on the fretboard before you try learning songs or playing tabs. tabs dont help you learn how to play guitar, they help you mimick other peoples solos and crap, they dont teach your how to move your hands correctly.

i started with power chords - the good thing about these, is you can play simple songs and get gratification from it, (just make 4 chord patterns lol) but you learn how to move your fingers from each string to the next, then i went to bar chords (a basic F note but anywhere on the neck is an example) and then i learned a bunch of regular major\minor stuff. finger picking is still beyond me. im too lazy to concentrate lol.

that is the biggest hurdle in my oppinion. once you can stretch your pinky\forefinger like 8 frets at the top of the neck, then you are getting the hang of it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

in my oppinion, a cheap electric guitar with nice strings will have better action (the slidy motion of your hand down the strings + the ease of pressing them to the fretboard) than a cheap acoustic will. i have an mid-line acoustic ($700) and a mid line electric ($500). i know price is not always everything, but you get the gist. your hand will hurt like a *****, but practice every day until you get calous's //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[UndercoverPunk 5,000+ posts]

http://chordguide.com/guitar/basic_guitar_chords.asp
practice playing regular chords, a b c d e f g, just play each one like 8 times, and go to the next one on that list.

do that until you can get it easy. also another exercise is learning a progression such as the blues progression.

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/lessons/music_styles/blues_scales_and_progressions.html

just do simple chord strumming, and simple picking, and learn how to manuver your fingers on the fretboard before you try learning songs or playing tabs. tabs dont help you learn how to play guitar, they help you mimick other peoples solos and crap, they dont teach your how to move your hands correctly.

i started with power chords - the good thing about these, is you can play simple songs and get gratification from it, (just make 4 chord patterns lol) but you learn how to move your fingers from each string to the next, then i went to bar chords (a basic F note but anywhere on the neck is an example) and then i learned a bunch of regular major\minor stuff. finger picking is still beyond me. im too lazy to concentrate lol.

that is the biggest hurdle in my oppinion. once you can stretch your pinky\forefinger like 8 frets at the top of the neck, then you are getting the hang of it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

Well sure if you want to be all wordy and helpful about it.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[regal8r 5,000+ posts]

how do u guys feel about those guitar tuners on ebay? worth the money?

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Intellitouch-Tuner-PT-1-PT1-Guitar-Violin-more_W0QQitemZ280098484568QQcategoryZ64388QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[60ndown 10+ year member]

http://www.8notes.com/guitar_tuner/

http://www.tabcrawler.com/

 

[wu36ca 10+ year member]

Get a book on scales. DO basic runs through those, then try to make stuff up within the scales.