One time, a young man was staying
with us, and he had a guitar case

Bought me a cheapy Fender. I need to get on the PC some more and I've always wanted to play. Came with a dvd thats pretty easy to follow. Its just so hard switching your fingers in time.



Anybody got some easy song tabs?

 

Just practice a whole lot, will become natural after a while.

 

Learn chords before you really try to play solos. You can play a whole song with just 3 chords. G, A, E, Em, D, F are all simple chords.

 

you need to practice finger excercises alot look at your fingers a pointer is 1 middle is 2 ring is 3 pinkie is 4


1-2-3-4
try this site. its got a lot of useful stuff

 

i disagree..

learn the scales first, and mix in come basic chords with that..... most people just learn a few chords then give up.. so to prevent that from happening give yourself a better foundation of knowledge.

Plus if you eventually can fly through the major and minor scales you are going to have no problem with chords whatsoever.

imo.. learning a few chords was what made me quit guitar in 7th grade and go to drums.. now i play both.

 

What exactly are scales? I'm not a complete noob to music but I'm a little confused. The dvd that came with my is doing chords. I have 5 memorized, just got to get the fingers to move smoothly.

 

This will explain it better than i or any others here should be able to.

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/lesso...ic_scales.html

 

Ya, I can look at a tab all day and still not know where to put my fingers.

 

THIS LINK GIVES YOU STEP BY STEP ON HOW TO READ TAB. it also has a LOT of other stuff to learn with, its the best out there, trust me, i have been playing since i was six, i'm 28 now and i use this site daily to help me practice better, it has every thing from beginer stuff to music theory for beginers which is great to know. go in and grab some stuff, the link goes right to learning tab and is great to know.

 

I would take some lessons if I were you. If you are serious, it will improve your playing to have a professional teach you the proper technique. Also, I would encourage you to learn notes rather than tablature. I will help you in the long run. If you just want to play guitar for yourself, or maybe around the campfire, then do what ever is easiest for you. Nothing worse than turning something fun into something totally tedious and frustrating.