Learning to play guitar

[Tipsy]

I've decided to pick up another instrument and have been playing guitar for about a week now. Most of what I've been doing is the free stuff online, but what I've seen is rather limited and the 'free online lessons' basically go as far as teaching you G, C, and D, though I've picked up a few more from looking at songs on ultimate-guitar.com.

I know there a few musicians on bf, so I was wondering if anyone knows a good online source for learning guitar, a good starting book, their experience with guitar, or anything else you think would be helpful.

 

[Pains Requiem]

Hal Leonard Guitar Play-Along

Its a great series of books that range from Acoustic Classics to Blues and Modern Rock and Blues. It comes with a tab book with suggested fnger positions and strum patters.

I have the Modern Rock and Blues boos which has System of a Down, Kenny Wayne Shephard, ZZ Top, Papa Roach, and The Doors.

It also comes with a CD with two instrumental versions of the song- one full w/o vocals, the second w/o the guitar part you are learning and vocals so you can play along wiht it.

 

[Metal Gear Flash]

guitar hero

 

[RyanXWing]

Ahaha guitar hero is nothing like playing a real guitar. THough some of the guitar hero parts are harder to play than the actual parts.

 

[Pains Requiem]

GH can help you practice speed.

 

[RyanXWing]

Hardly, pressing buttons is a lot different then pressing down strings. Not to mention theres sometimes over 30 frets and 6 strings.

 

[Pains Requiem]

Besides the fact of only having, what, 5 buttons? Say there are 20 frets- how often is it that in a series of notes are that the notes are more than 2-6 frets away from eachother on either string?

Getting used to the 5 on GH can help you with coordination but you still do have to learn to move around a bit more.

 

[RyanXWing]

As I said, pressing a button is much different then holding a string to a fret.

 

[Pains Requiem]

Practice with coordination is still practice with coordination- it's probably the best practice ur gonna get beside playing the real thing.

 

[RyanXWing]

So why not do the real thing? Guitars aren't expensive.

 

[concrete_sox]

b minor is really hard but then u can go into c minor and do awesome gutiar solos

 

[Johnny]

"Real guitar is for old people".

 

[Pains Requiem]

Good ones are expensive.

Plus GH is funner for people who really can't play guitar as you are actually doing something when playing GH.

 

[RyanXWing]

I was thinking relative to other instruments. Do you know how much a student saxophone can cost?

 

[Ninja_Blue]

I'm learning to play Bass, everyone plays guitar, not enough bass players