josh answers:

I’ve been looking for this myself – if I find any I’ll email you, if u do the same – ITS ALL TABS!!! Grrrrr.
The only place i’ve been able to get anything is from torrent sites.

josh answers:

I was in band in jr high and high school, and i couldnt figure out for the life of me how to read guitar music when i started 5 years ago. Tabs are very helpful, and unless you are playing in some kind of orchestra or something, i find sheet music pretty pointless, considering tabs are so much easier.

josh answers:

Yes just type in the name of the song in google and the first few websites should be what your looking for

josh answers:

I just bought my first guitar about a month ago. I just went to reputable store and they were very helpful. There are guitars in nearly every price range and a good music store can give you great advice on which one is right for you. Mine is an Alvarez acoustic/electric and I love it. It has great tone.

As far as accessories I’d suggest a capo and a chord book to get you familiar with fingerings, strumming, etc. Also an electric tuner is nice as this makes tuning the guitar a snap. I often tune mine without, but the tuner is a time saver.

Music, I use a lot of chords and tabs that i find online. Just type “song title chords” into Google and you’ll come up with many free sites with lyrics and chords for a multitude of songs.

Good luck and have fun!

josh answers:

It really depends on what kind of music you like.Don´t play songs you dont like just because they are beginner songs.Also it doesnt matter how many chords you know,when you find a song you wish to play,learn the new chords that are required.This guy is awesome guitar teacher,there are lots of song tutorials for free on his site,see if you like any of these:http://www.justinguitar.com/en/ST-000-SongsTAB.php.

For me personally,I started playing Tenacious D songs first,check them out if you like rock.

josh answers:

First act is pretty good to start, it’s from wal-mart, but really… It will last you forever, I had one for over 4 years

For a good acoustic get any Yamaha acoustic/electric at any music store, even some Best Buy’s

Just make sure to wood polish it with a rag every once and a while and what really determines sound is the strings, get some thicker gauge acoustic strings to start (anything but nylon)

josh answers:

Good beginner guitars would be something like a Takamine Jasmine S34C NEX Cutaway or an Epiphone DR100 for around $100. If you can swing $200 you can get a solid top guitar like the Yamaha FG700S. Those would be my top choices for beginner guitars.

As for learning to play, yes, you do want lessons, you just don’t want to pay for them. I’d recommend you go to a music store and buy book one of a good lesson series like Mel Bay or Hal Leonard and go through that and learn the fundamentals before you start jumping on Youtube and randomly looking for something that will teach you to play. Youtube videos are a great supplement but should not be looked at as a primary source for learning the fundamentals of guitar. Books are great because you can sit down and play from them anywhere, but there are also a number of good DVD and video training materials available. There are some free sites that are decent but most I’ve seen don’t go through a methodical approach or start with fundamentals. Everyone seems bent on just jumping right into learning specific songs without laying a good foundation. Learn the notes and how to read music, learn scales and chord theory, and actually understand what you’re playing and you’ll enjoy the guitar much more long term than if you just start memorizing a bunch of chords and tabs.

josh answers:

What you should do is just go to musicians friend’s website and pick up a Fender SE Special Strat Value Pack if you want electric. They are fairly decent guitar for a beginners. They come with EVERYTHING you will need to first start out. An amp, cable, picks, guitar stand, gig bag, tuner, and an instructional dvd all for 199 dollars.

josh answers:

Collings, Santa Cruz, Goodall, and Froggy Bottom all make fantastic acoustic guitars.

josh answers:

I’ve been on and off with the guitar but recently I’ve been practicing much more over the guitar than any other instrument I’ve played. My first instrument was the piano. Easy. Second was the violin. I built a little bit if callouses from that. Then when I started playing the guitar, the pain was the most difficult to deal with. *TIP* If you don’t have callouses yet, do NOT play the guitar before or after you shower. IT STINGS!!! But once you built your callouses, it does not hurt at all. It’s easier to slide up and down the strings of the guitar.
My first guitar (the one I still use now) is a simple $100 steel string acoustic guitar. The brand is Eleca. I don’t see myself having a musical career, so I guess I’ll use this one forever.
Honestly, I think you should save your time and money buying the standard strings and cope with the pain. Your callouses come in after a week; depending on how much you’re playing it.

josh answers:

Some people make it with the help of on line lessons and a guitar playing friend who will work with them now and then.
If you really want to do it right, you will find a good teacher and take lessons. Guitar is relative easy, but not so easy that every one can learn on their own.
Take lessons and you will most likely still be playing 2 years from now. Teach your self and you most likely will not be playing 2 years from now.

josh answers:

Wow, now THAT is a doozy of a question. Punk is basically the antithesis of formal guitar instruction. It’s a genre of music that gets its sound specifically from players who don’t “know how” to play guitar. (I put that in quotes because I don’t really believe in a “right” or “wrong” way to play any instrument.)

I can kind of give you an online lesson right now, actually.

1) Pick an open-chord shape (most likely E or A.)

2) Move it up a fret and barre.

3) Slam down on the guitar strings repeatedly.

4) Move your hand to another position on the fretboard.

5) Return to step 3.

And I’m only being half-facetious here. The idea behind punk is to “buck the system.” Guitar lessons, by nature, are instruction on a system.

And I’m not knocking them; I make my living teaching guitar. I also love punk rock. All I’m saying is that anything that claims to be “teaching punk guitar” is really kind of a paradox.

Your best bet is to listen to a lot of punk and try to imitate it. Listen to the classics, like the Sex Pistols and the Clash, Ramones, stuff like that. (God help me, not this new pseudo-punk crap that is actually emo pop.)

Rock on dude!!

josh answers:

Do a search for “online guitar lessons”. This is one of the sites that came up in a search:

http://www.guitartricks.com/

josh answers:

Online guitar lessons, lessons from books, or lessons in person all only work if the person taking the lesson puts the effort into learning the guitar.

josh answers:

Electric can be easier with regard to the action and size (width) of the neck…

josh answers:

Since you already have a guitar, my recommendation is to invest in a new set of strings for the guitar and a combination lesson book/video series. Check out the following website for some of the best prices around on guitar accessories and instructional materials. They have a wide variety to choose from, so browse around a while and find one that will help you meet your individual goals.

Http://www.musiciansfriend.com/

josh answers:

Learning Guitar and Violin at the same time? It just won’t work out very well. There is so much to learn in each instrument that even a whole lifetime would be not enough to master it. So my suggestion is to learn any one instrument and try mastering it. For women Violin is the best choice.

BTW you can learn both these instruments online these days, no need to depend on a personal tutor.

josh answers:

You will have an advantage, but it won’t be freakishly easy, either. I learned to play the guitar after the piano, and while it was easier for me than my non-instrumental friends, it’s still a challenge, simply because you have to move your fingers not only up and down the neck but onto all six different strings as well. Of course with practice, as you already know, you’ll get it quickly.

I bought my first for less than a hundred.
Get a self-teaching book and go from there. Good luck!

josh answers:

Go and get the ebook from http://guitarmanual.typepad.com its a 93 page 8 chapter instructional book for guitar. Step by step instructions that make learning guitar extremely simple, covers in detail open chords, barre chords, power chords, single notes, playing techniques, major minor and pentatonic scales and modes, chord inversions, chord construction, improvisation and much more. Videos to go along w/ pages in the ebook, all explained in detail and easy to understand , will have you at an advanced level in a short time, also help is available through email and videos. Good luck

learning chords by ear takes time, try some ear training, but first learn major, minor , 7th, suspended, major 7th etc.. And more chord types and learn what they sound like, then go into ear training.

josh answers:

Sure, Guitar For Dummies would help you out. But nothing beats just sitting down with a guitar player for an hour and having him or her teach you some chords. You could pay for a lesson or two – or just sit down with a friend. Once you’ve done that a couple times, you’ll find it a lot easier to understand what those guitar tabs are trying to tell you to do.

josh answers:

Try searching around the internet. Besides finding helpful websites, I’m sure you can find all kinds of good things on YouTube.

josh answers:

Alright tabs are read upside down. Whereas the top line on the tab represents the high e string (bottom string on your guitar). Basically upside down guitar strings on the tabs. The numbers on the tabs represent which fret to place your fingers on.
—2——————— Bottom string
—3—————
—2———————
———————–
————————
———————— Top string

On the tab above it says put a finger on your bottom string at the 2nd fret, another on the next string up 3rd fret, and 2nd fret again on the next string up. That is the d chord by the way. When the numbers are directly above eachother you play them as a whole all at once (like above). If there spaced out you play them one at a time.

josh answers:

Http://www.guitarskilz.net/guitar_lessons.html
here will be some simple guitar lessons

josh answers:

Have you tried learning guitar online? If not you don’t have the right to say that “they don’t work.” There are some good free online guitar sites if you just look and try ‘em out.

I came across a good page from a very good website:

http://www.cyberfret.com/first-fret/index.php

If you’re the visual learner buy Teach Yourself Visually Guitar. I have that book and it’s a great reference in addition to lessons.

I’m at a loss for piano.

josh answers:

Try youtube. Watch the videos. Or try ultimate-guitar.com and try to read the tabs. Its not too hard to figure out.

josh answers:

Http://www.billbrutal.com/

http://www.cyberfret.com/chords/beggin

http://www.guitar.about.com/

http://www.jamplay.com/

http://www.guitartricks.com/

http://www.justinguitar.com/

I think those free guitar lesson days are over, if you had a site would you teach for free, I think not. Some of them have a few free lessons as an introduction, and then you have to play. If everyone could get lessons for free who would go to the music stores anymore, you get what you pay for anyway. And as for free music, i think those days are over also, a lot of sites that use to have a few bits of music for free are no longer there, I only know of a few, not like there use to be. I think if you want anything worth while your going to have to pay. Try these and see if you can get anything out of them, good luck. Bye.

josh answers:

Many say that acoustic is better to start with but it isn’t. Electric guitars have thiner strings and give you more versatility to styles of music

josh answers:

When I started to play the guitar I bought an acoustic guitar because everyone said that you “should” start by learn to play on an acoustic guitar.

If I would have made that choice again, I would definitely buy an electric as my first guitar. First of all the electric guitar is easier to play since you have thinner strings which are easier to press down, and most often you also have a thinner neck on an electric which many people find easier to play on.

You can play anything on an electric that you can play on acoustic, and if you miss the acoustic sound you can always buy an modeling guitar processor (effect pedal) to make you electric guitar sound (almost) like an acoustic (Digitech and Zoom are two popular examples of modeling guitar processors)

When I started to learn playing the guitar I found much useful information at Digifoot Guitar. Http://www.digifoot.se

First of all you should practice on basic open chords.

Http://www.digifoot.se/openchords.htm

Print out the PDF at Digifoot – at least I found that very useful in the beginning.

Http://www.digifoot.se/PDFOpenChords.pdf

At Digifoot Guitar there are some easy song with videos that you can try to play along with, when you have practiced for a while

http://www.digifoot.se/easysongs.htm

In order to become good you also have to know the notes of your strings, which you can read more about here.

Http://www.digifoot.se/stringnotes.htm

Then I would recommend that you start looking at scales pretty soon. You need the scales when you want to improvise and soloing (although it will take some time until you start improvising), but the scales are great practice for your fingers!

Http://www.digifoot.se/minorpentatonic.h…

If you want to impress your friends in an easy way, then you should definitely check out Power Chords!!

Http://www.digifoot.se/powerchords.htm

Barre chords is a must! But they are unfortunately pretty hard to master. You have to practice a lot, but do not give up!

Http://www.digifoot.se/barrechords.htm

Good Luck!!

josh answers:

Http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4677941/Learn__amp__Master_Guitar_Complete_%5B1-20%5D_DVDRip
try this out !! Obviously you have a PC with net connection i guess !! Hence you could try it!! It teaches you everything from acoustic to electric and even jazz!!

josh answers:

Ok I will put you in touch with someone

josh answers:

That makes me wonder what your teacher gave you, because that link looks to me like standard guitar tabs.

E|——————0—–0—
B|————–0———0—
G|———-1————-1—
D|——-2—————-2—
A|—-2——————-2—
E|-0———————-0—

Read them from left to right. When the numbers are stacked, it means to play them all at once. The bottom line represents the low string, the fattest one. The top line is your high string, the thinnest one. Each number represents a fret, 0 represents an open string. The example here is an E major chord, one note at a time and then all together.

There’s various symbols that represent different techniques. Better tabs have a legend to explain which symbols they use.

josh answers:

There is a couple.
Ozzy Ozbourne/Crazy Train:

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/o/ozzy_osbourne/crazy_train_ver2_tab.htm

Just the intro.
Deep Purple/Smoke on the Water:

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/d/deep_purple/smoke_on_the_water_tab.htm

Almost the whole thing.
White Srtipes/Seven Nation Army:

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/w/white_stripes/seven_nation_army_tab.htm

The Eagles/Hotel California:

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/e/eagles/hotel_california_crd.htm

Good for learning Chords.
Three Doors Down/Kryptonite:

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/0-9/3_doors_down/kryptonite_tab.htm

Good chord plucking.

josh answers:

Ultimate-guitar.com has easy to read tabs and it has pretty much any song you’re looking for. It has everything from beginner to expert songs for you so if you want beginner tabs just look up easy songs that suit you. Hope this helped, and good luck. I also recommend you learn to read music and a good beginner book on guitar is Hal Leonard Fast Track Guitar 1.

josh answers:

Yey i love these… Ok i would try summer loving i think its in the greece musical 0-0-5-5-7-7-5-7-5 and then repeat or smoke on the water
0-3-5-0-3-6-5-0-3-5-3-0 and then repeat play both these on the e string (the thick one) or try wonderwall by oasis for some easy chords… Now im not saying you gonna master these in a day… It took me ages to master just these three… But practice WILL make perfect… So make a good effort… Another good one to practice would be seven nation army by the wite stripes its like this 7-7-10-7-5-3-2-7-7-10-5-3-5-3-2 and thats on the a string (second thickest) if you want more help email me at sholtodavid.yahoo.com i will reply…

josh answers:

Well, it really depends on what type of music you like. Try searching some of your fave bands or songs here: http://www.911tabs.com/ and see what comes up.

josh answers:

Yes this is a talent. Anyone who plays a musical instrument has a talent.

josh answers:

There’s a couple of guides on the internet and books from Amazon that could help you, also just do a search in YouTube. To change a string you need to thread the new string through the bridge and wind it onto the tuning peg.

I’ve put a couple of links in my source, you might be able to find something there.

josh answers:

There is no easy way to play a guitar. You have to master it.
Chords are not the easiest or quickest thing to learn, they are the most complex, but also the most rewarding. From chords, you have rhythm, find lead, and bass runs. There are all kinds of free sites. After you condition your fingers, start learning basic chords, and go from there.

josh answers:

If you’re already used to guitar, you’ll have no trouble with the mandolin. Just learn the scales, then learn some tunes &/or improvise melodies.

One difference between mando and guitar: it’s not compulsory, but mandolin players tend to use similar fingering to the violin when in first position. It’s called diatonic fingering, and and you use the first three fingers until you reach the 5th fret. You only tend to use your little finger when fingering 7th fret or above.

Plenty of vids, articles, and websites to get you started.

josh answers:

Hello Camilla Kate, and welcome to the wonderful world of guitar playing!

Learning to play the guitar should be easy and fun. One of the best ways to learn today is with online lessons. You really can learn how to play the guitar in just 15 minutes a day.

You probably could spend hours and hours of time online searching for “free” guitar lessons. On the other hand, you might just as well check out websites that offer lessons at very reasonable rates (compared to private lessons).

Visit: http://www.BestOnlineGuitarCourse.com or

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Do your homework. Do your due diligence. Have Fun.
 
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If you play electric guitar, having a good guitar to play helps with motivation.
 
Here’s a great electric guitar for under $500: Epiphone LP Standard Plain-Top Les Paul Collection Electric Guitar, Heritage Cherryburst. You can see this guitar at:
 

http://www.amazon.com/Epiphone-Standard-Plain-Top-Collection-Cherryburst/dp/B000VTH1MU/ref=sr_1_2?s=musical-instruments&ie=UTF8&qid=1297771134&sr=1-2

 
or (for just over $500) the Epiphone LP Standard Plus-Top Les Paul Collection Electric Guitar, Trans Blue. You can see this guitar at:
 

http://www.amazon.com/Epiphone-Standard-Plus-Top-Collection-Electric/dp/B0002H06JG/ref=sr_1_11?s=musical-instruments&ie=UTF8&qid=1297771134&sr=1-11

Best of luck in learning how to play the guitar!

josh answers:

Ir you already know the scales practice them every day.
Practice with metronome and try to play scales up and down the neck. Play them in triplets, quadruplets, sixtlets e.c.t.
Play arpeggios, play them with sweep picking

josh answers:

Well, when you rcv a new scale, you gotta play them over and over again until you can get it right.

First you gotta concentrate on your fingerings- like the best fingerings you should use in order to play the scale smoothly.

Next listen carefully on your tone. If theres buzzing or muting, check that you’re pressing hard enough.

G’luck!

josh answers:

Scales are only particularly important if you want a greater understanding of why things are where they are on a fretboard. If you’re just planning to play chords in a band or something there’s not really much reason, but I’d recommend learning them

josh answers:

Buy a book full of guitar scales !
Straight up, there are MANY different scales, for different keys.
Whilst taking private lessons, i was given a 400 page (atleast) book full of scales and songs in which they are well used to learn for university music. I’d really recommend maybe even a few lessons with a skilled teacher as well. He/she could get you on your way, and if you chose to stick with them you can learn so much more, also by learning the technical parts of the scales.

josh answers:

Well you really don’t LEARN anything from drills.

Drills are designed to focus in on your technique and improve it. Technique is just a means to an end… Other colors on your palette. The only reason you work on your technique is to properly equip yourself to express something musically.

You learn scales by hearing them in use in actual music. I like to refer to it as “out in the wild”. Learn a song and analyze it. Figure out what’s going on. What scales are being used? What sort of fingering patterns are being employed to play those scales? What other techniques are in use?

I’ve probably learned more about scales and modes from Joe Satriani than any other guitarist. His music always has several extra layers of complexity added to it, but it’s also wrapped up in a very musical package. He’s not out there going “Hey, look at me! I’m using a bunch of weird scales! That makes me cool right?” He makes real music (and very accessible music at that).

If you can do something unusual musically without anybody noticing that something was weird (like using uncommon scales or time signatures), then you’re doing it right.