pikin on a six string

[jimmy[the]gent]

does anybody play the guitar how did you learn? im gona buy an acoustic six string and start taking lessons any advice?

[91300zxtt]

ive been playing since i was 4, ive never taken any lessons. waht style of music are you looking to play?take a few lessons on the acoustic, get all the major chords down, then whatever you are really looking to play find an instructor that teaches it, it will be much more worthwhile

[x~Underoath~x]

Yeah, i started my freshman year. Now im a senior and play Metallica,Rhoads,VH, and all the hardcore metal you can throw at me pretty fluidly. Some say im a natural, and you never know until you try. My advice is this...buy a $300 acoustic or ESP LTD EC-50 and a cheap Marshall. Depending on style. Get tablature to the music you like and learn it. By doing this, you will develop styles such as that, that the music that you are playing. Then take what you learn...and make stuff up. Play like that and just mess around on it for about a year or two. Then take a couple of lessons on theory and scales, arpeggios, and stuff like that...to get soloing down. Thats sortof what i did. If you have any questions feel free to PM me. 91300zxtt knows his stuff too. But ask me first, im smarter and better. hahaha

[jimmy[the]gent]

thanks for all the replys, i whent and bought an oscar shmidt guitar for bout 140 canadian moneys and have signed up for lessons once a weak until i get good i guess i already had my first lesson and think there not bad they taught me basics of playing and how to tune my guitar i hope to be able to play recent songs like my friend that can play some blink songs..

[x~Underoath~x]

Screw "blink" in the butthole. Learn some Metallica and blow your friends mind. Then proceed to compare calluses.

[91300zxtt]

thats cool man, its always good that you start off somewhere. i think if you want to go into some sort of sequence, do that acoustic stuff, then learn some punk, bar chords ecetera. then go from there, one thing, THERE WILL BE a time when you get extremely frustrated, but dont give up, keep on pushin and you WILL get better. never forget to practice, i still practice more than 3 hours per day. good luck man

by the way bandit is a rookie compared to me, he may know terms, but i bet he cant play all that metallica by just listening to it as i can haha.

[-Davo]

I took lessions from 1995 till 1998. I quit guitar to start saxophone (tenor), I played that for 3.5 year from 1998 till mid 2001 when I quit the school band.
But, I re-started guitar in 1999 (year 8) re-learning all my theory, basic chords etc, started listening to offspring and metallica.

I was mainly self taught from that. The only thing I got from x amount of years getting lessons was basic thoeory, chords, and song structure, not to mention basic guitar theory. I taught my self distortion, pickups, strings, techniques like palm mute, tap, sweep, harmonics (natural and artificial, also tap harmonics), finger streatching, bar chords, tab theory, writing in tab, transposing etc.

Over all, playing for about 10 years. And I'll never give it up.

It was hard at first, but practising 7 days a week for about 4 hours each day, you kinda get better!