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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:32 am
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Oh, and 'forgot. Welcome and congrats.

And two fave pieces of advice for budding or even vet musicians, from that great American 20th century philosopher, Frank Zappa:

"Shut up and play your guitar."

and

"Shut up and play your guitar some more."


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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:39 pm
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Welcome to the forum, you have a nice set-up there.
My suggestion is not to flood your mind with too much information at once
Scales have been mentioned and they are an essential first step, that don't need to be boring. Check out Joe Cefalu's hopscotch tecnnique, it takes you through all the positions of the pentatonic scale and links them together [ in one key, say G ]
Extremely useful for building up speed and creating improvised solo's further on down the line, it will give you a greater notation range.
I think he has his own website.
If not you can find him at. About.comGuitar. These have free guitar lessons and lots of information for beginners. Chords, tabs, repairs and setting up your gear etc.
Anyway all the best and good luck.


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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 3:11 pm
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if you ask me, i'd go with learning notes, and then tab. thats what i did

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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 3:15 pm
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rkreisher wrote:
Rocker_Gamma wrote:
Scales are your friends. :D

I agree, scales are your friend. Learn chords as well. If you can read MUSIC or TABULATURE that would help you learn songs.


Yep, it will also help if you could take lessons... 8)

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jeffo46 wrote:
I wish I could've started off with a set up like that.


Me too. :cry: :lol: 8)

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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:01 am
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^^^ All great info to get started. Just play what you can, and play it well. Focus 110% on what you're playing when you practice. You need to not only hear it, but feel it in your hands.

My first electric was a Peavey T15, short scale student guitar with a 2-watt amp in the hardshell case. I played the hell out of that thing until I saved enough to get a Peavey Backstage amp, and played that thing until it broke - twice. All in the course of a few years. Unless you're extremely gifted naturally, there is not short cut or magic word to get there any faster. Just learn from everything, play as much as you can, and always strive to get better, not just "play". Me, I've been playing for over 25yrs and am very good, but I've worked very hard at it. Not as much as I should have or could have, but there were a LOT of hours put in. I still practice, learn things, and try to get better all the time. Music is a life long process - and it should be. If I could get to the absolute "top" in a few years then had nothing else to learn or get better at, I would have lost interest.

Like the saying goes, you can't hit the target if you don't know what it even looks like.


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did all that you purchased come with a guitar tuner? a lot of beginners don't realize how very important it is to have a in tune guitar & how to tune it.
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