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Title: New to guitars! For all you guitar lovers out their
Post by: leigh_harty on 13 December 2011, 18:18

So i finally got myself an electric guitar 6days ago

So far ive kinda mastered the intros of:

Metallica - One
Avenged sevenfold -Unholy Confessions
And im trying to do 'enter sandman' at the min

Any other good songs that are fairly easy to learn? Tabs only at the min ill learn chords soon enough  :smiley:

And incase anybody cares ive got a Squire by Fender.. Model (if there is one) unknown

Title: Re: New to guitars! For all you guitar lovers out their
Post by: Benrevs on 13 December 2011, 18:23

Tune it to drop D, and learn everlong by Foo Fighters. Very rewarding to play!  There are plenty of tutorials on the tube!

Title: Re: New to guitars! For all you guitar lovers out their
Post by: ramps on 13 December 2011, 18:39

chilli peppers - cant stop, it gets you used to skipping between strings. once that has been mastered the intro to aweet child o mine surprisingly easy aswell, once your used to skipping between strings fairly quick,

Title: Re: New to guitars! For all you guitar lovers out their
Post by: leigh_harty on 13 December 2011, 18:42

Don't you need a tuner for a drop D? Which I haven't got

And I've seen many videos but I can't physically sit and watch videos. Run before walking etc

I'll have a gander at the chillis... I've got an 'ultimate tabs' app and it's proving useful  :smiley:

Title: Re: New to guitars! For all you guitar lovers out their
Post by: Ant1981 on 13 December 2011, 18:46

Quote from: leigh_harty on 13 December 2011, 18:42

Don't you need a tuner for a drop D? Which I haven't got

Then how do you know you're in tune anyway?

Title: Re: New to guitars! For all you guitar lovers out their
Post by: Benrevs on 13 December 2011, 18:48

Just tune the bottom E the same as the D string(3rd from bottom). And by the way, the bottom one is the biggest one. :wink:

Title: Re: New to guitars! For all you guitar lovers out their
Post by: leigh_harty on 13 December 2011, 18:53

Quote from: Ant1981 on 13 December 2011, 18:46

Quote from: leigh_harty on 13 December 2011, 18:42

Don't you need a tuner for a drop D? Which I haven't got

Then how do you know you're in tune anyway?

I don't... But I can still ask to find out no?

Quote from: Benrevs on 13 December 2011, 18:48

Just tune the bottom E the same as the D string(3rd from bottom). And by the way, the bottom one is the biggest one. :wink:

Thanks, guess I can just tune (to a fashion) by ear :-)

Title: Re: New to guitars! For all you guitar lovers out their
Post by: Jack3559 on 13 December 2011, 18:57

Learn some jamming basics, like the 12 bar blues and chords I V vi IV in E major. Then you can play most songs ever written.

Title: Re: New to guitars! For all you guitar lovers out their
Post by: Ant1981 on 13 December 2011, 18:57

Quote from: leigh_harty on 13 December 2011, 18:53

I don't... But I can still ask to find out no?

Yes, lol, but how will you know you're in drop D then? You might now be in drop C#........ :smug:

Title: Re: New to guitars! For all you guitar lovers out their
Post by: Thom89 on 13 December 2011, 19:17

Smoke on the water :evil:

Thom

Title: Re: New to guitars! For all you guitar lovers out their
Post by: myvr6isarocket on 13 December 2011, 19:25

http://www.gieson.com/Library/projects/utilities/tuner/

Title: Re: New to guitars! For all you guitar lovers out their
Post by: Jack3559 on 13 December 2011, 19:29

You can get chromatic tuners for next to nothing anyways... pretty essential, especially for beginners.

Title: Re: New to guitars! For all you guitar lovers out their
Post by: T_J_G on 13 December 2011, 19:31

Can get them for iPhone as well

Title: Re: New to guitars! For all you guitar lovers out their
Post by: The Mighty Elvi on 13 December 2011, 19:32

Honestly, you can't go wrong from learning from YouTube legend "SoloDallas"

So good he was banned.

Now called "SoloFilDallas" on Youtube and here:

http://www.solodallas.net/

Awesome.

Check this out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv8v5V8SCec

Title: Re: New to guitars! For all you guitar lovers out their
Post by: leigh_harty on 13 December 2011, 19:35

Have learnt smoke on the water.. 1st thing everybody plays haha

It's payday tomorrow so I'll get a tuner.

Suppose I can dig out the appropriate laptop > projector lead and watch some videos on my wall whilst I jam pretending I'm an awesome legend... Not. I'll check out them links elvi, thanks

Title: Re: New to guitars! For all you guitar lovers out their
Post by: myvr6isarocket on 13 December 2011, 19:48

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb9IPu8OGn0&feature=plcp&context=C2338bUDOEgsToPDskKupIs5Fnt__cOfYrhWzipv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUQgG1xrwIM&feature=context&context=C2338bUDOEgsToPDskKupIs5Fnt__cOfYrhWzipv

couple of me messin bout,
im not very good, but enjoy collecting rather than playing i think!!

although would swap them all if the right car came up!!!