Preserved Topic: Guitar

Im trying to learn the guitar, friend of mine just lent me his old one, (acoustic). Im pretty much stumped. If i get good enough, next april. Were gonna perform Camel Walk, by Southern Culture on the skids. For the school talent show. Anyone got any sites for a beginner to get started? Im pretty sure i need to start learning the chords first off. Well, any input guys. Please guys. Lets not get off topic on this one.

Hey that reminds me, did you guys ever see the episode of Saturday Night Live where Will Feral is in a yoga class and manages to suck his own *%&$ after 3 years of practicing? That was pretty damn funny....laughed my ass off.

oh, and try the music stores...basic guitar books are quite cheap. Or the library. Or do a search on the internet. Or just beat cluelessly on the strings like most bands today do <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/wink.gif">

Yeah, that SNL was funny as hell. But I like Mad TV more...

- Dan -

mel bay (or maybe 'melbay') guitar books are where they usually start kids... it's a good place if you've never played guitar i guess.

honestly it's a bunch of shit trying to learn from a book though and you might be better off sinking money into like 1 hour lessons a week, which is even not a lot.

good luck, guitar is righteous if you can get it going... after almost 6 years of playing guitar, i'm selling off all of my equipment for pretty good money actually.

gave up on guitar, but the visual stuff is the next step instead. so it's alright.

cheers.mikey.milker

Reve.....

Despite of playing around with the net, I play guitar a lot. I'm not a profesional guitarist, though, and I would never be. I just love it and playing guitar makes you different from others who never try to work their hands on the fret- board. And the peak of it is you will be able to jam and play some Pearl Jam's or Metallica'z (or whatever it is).
Personally, I think books would help rather than the web. It worked for me, and it will work for you too. I taught myself to play guitar using a simple guitar chord book 5 years ago and the result were impressive. Some advices and readings would also help. Don't just learn the chords; learn to sing while you play. Don't forget to learn some basic scale.




R i C K

[This message has been edited by Rick (edited 24-08-2000).]

www.harmonycentral.com

There you can get everything that has anything to to with guitar.
just remember those four things

1. practise
2. practise
3. practise
4. Have fun

Yeah what delphi said. Harmony central is a great resource:

Especially the guitar tab page: http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/tab.html

Learn to read tab quick it's the easiest way to learn stuff without music training. Then pick a few easy songs that you have on CD or MP3 (I like MP3 cuz I can loop individual songs or make wavs where I can loop parts) and learn those.


Walking the Earth like Kane

Glad to know that the first post was off topic, but you couldnt have been funnier off topic. I remember that episode destinctly. Hes like, "yeah, give me 5 minutes, and then he pops out form his pants with like gray hair and a Gray beard. But hey, if that was possible, every guy weither they admitted it or not would do it in the majority of there spare time. Dont lie guys <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">