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Guitar newb (day2)

grandr0yalgrandr0yal Posts: 67
edited August 2006 in Musicians and Gearheads
So, ya i decided to start playing electric guitar. I cant afford lessons at this moment so i have to self teach. I have a book thats pretty extensive and current and i read a lot online. One things thats mad confusing is how there are so many variations of tabs and the symbols in them. Ive ran across 3 different ways they are written.

But, anyway. Advide.. Ive read giventowail and that was really helpful. What should i practice first? Learning power cords? Should i just go into practicing easy PJ songs? Im a pretty fast learner... then only thing stopping me is the development of these caluses on my fingers. My index bled last night. Any advice on where to start? This is my second day playing so you could imagine how horrible i am ;).
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  • gobrowns19gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    Well, the first song I learned on guitar was Petty's Free Fallin'. That's a little too easy, so I wouldn't recommend it. The second song I learned was Stairway to Heaven, and I also wouldn't recommend that, lol. I would have to say practice Off He Goes or Not For You. And Good luck.
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  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Learn every song you can. Why not, theres no such thing as to easy. Besides, girls like Free Fallin'!
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  • Thumbing My WayThumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
    gobrowns19 wrote:
    Well, the first song I learned on guitar was Petty's Free Fallin'. That's a little too easy, so I wouldn't recommend it. The second song I learned was Stairway to Heaven, and I also wouldn't recommend that, lol. I would have to say practice Off He Goes or Not For You. And Good luck.

    I've never tried to play Free Fallin'.....yet everytime I have a guitar somewhere someone asks me "can you play Free Fallin'"?
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  • NovawindNovawind Posts: 836
    Every time I go into a guitar shop, I'm expected to play Stairway to Heaven and Sunshine of Your Love, the former of which I never learned to play.

    Good luck with your endeavors. Stick with it is the best advice I can give. Learn your basic open chords (A, D, E, G, C) and you can learn lots of songs with that. Try out Closing Time by Semisonic, pretty easy to learn that, I think it's G-D-Am-C? A minor is the same thing as A, but you move down a half-step on the B string.

    Yeah, learn your standard tuning (EADGBE) first and the names of all the strings. If you work out what notes are where, you'll make it really easy on yourself.
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  • Thumbing My WayThumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
    Thumbing My Way wrote:
    I've never tried to play Free Fallin'.....yet everytime I have a guitar somewhere someone asks me "can you play Free Fallin'"?

    Ok I just learned it :)

    Capo 3rd:

    D - Dsus - Dsus - D - Asus

    :D
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  • moster78moster78 Posts: 1,591
    Thumbing My Way wrote:
    Ok I just learned it :)

    Capo 3rd:

    D - Dsus - Dsus - D - Asus

    :D

    Nice, I'll have to add that to my setlist!
  • Thumbing My WayThumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
    moster78 wrote:
    Nice, I'll have to add that to my setlist!

    Ya, it sounds good to me and it's a sing along for sure :)
    "I Miss You Already!!!!!"

    "Sorry is the fool who trades his love for high-rise rent, Seems the more you make equals the loneliness you get"

    .NJD.
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