Learning the Guitar - Christmas present
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My first post in this section...
Lucky me! My Mrs admitted she didn't know what to buy me for Christmas, so took me into town and bought me an electric guitar and amp, which is something I have always wanted.
The guitar shop were great - not the cheapest, but set it up for me and are going to service it free. They didn't have the colour I wanted in stock so I took a 'surf green' and they will swap it for black next week when they get one in - although the '70s bathroom green' is growing on me.
I just need to learn to play it now!
I've gone through a few lessons online and signed up at Jamorama.com (pos software, but the actual lessons seem fairly good). I think I'd like to try the online/dvd 'lessons' before I pay for a guitar teacher (I was being quoted £20 an hour, once a week).
Excuse the typing with blistered fingers
Lucky me! My Mrs admitted she didn't know what to buy me for Christmas, so took me into town and bought me an electric guitar and amp, which is something I have always wanted.
The guitar shop were great - not the cheapest, but set it up for me and are going to service it free. They didn't have the colour I wanted in stock so I took a 'surf green' and they will swap it for black next week when they get one in - although the '70s bathroom green' is growing on me.
I just need to learn to play it now!
I've gone through a few lessons online and signed up at Jamorama.com (pos software, but the actual lessons seem fairly good). I think I'd like to try the online/dvd 'lessons' before I pay for a guitar teacher (I was being quoted £20 an hour, once a week).
Excuse the typing with blistered fingers
If you are just beginning, the Learning Guitar for Dummies book covers most of the basics, and although does not have much decent tab (you can get this on tehe 'net anyway), it does have a lot of chord fingerings for your delectation. I purchased this book for my g/f last xmas, and although she did not stick at it, she was fingering a G and D and A after a few hours!
£20 an hour isn't half bad - I charge £24 an hour for private saxophone tuition, and that's pretty middle of the road around here.
Definitely get yourself some lessons sooner rather than later - you'd be amazed at the quick initial progress you can make with someone who a) knows what they're doing, and b) knows how to explain it well.
Definitely get yourself some lessons sooner rather than later - you'd be amazed at the quick initial progress you can make with someone who a) knows what they're doing, and b) knows how to explain it well.
£20 an hour is reasonable, I'm paying £16 for 1/2 hour...
get yourself over to
http://www.justinguitar.com/
everything you need there really, and free..
but do take some lessons, it will greatly improve the learning curve, and stop you getting 'bad' habits at the start.
get yourself over to
http://www.justinguitar.com/
everything you need there really, and free..
but do take some lessons, it will greatly improve the learning curve, and stop you getting 'bad' habits at the start.
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