Online guitar playing guide/self-teaching lesson plan?
So, I have this guitar I bought some 8 years ago. I learned a little on it, but I didn't seem to pick it up quite fast enough...so, I stopped taking lessons, and quit. It's sat there for a while, untouched.
The other day, I took it to get new strings and tuned and whatever, and decided I'd sit down and have a go at it.
My fingers still don't seem to want to move properly when it comes to switching chords, but I'm sure I'll get used to it. I also have no callouses on my fingers, so, I get irritated and put the instrument down after a short while.
Anyway, I can't really afford the time to schedule lessons, so, I'd like to do this in my own free time. Are there any good sites online that can outline learning the guitar for me, step-by-step?
im doing mine the same way, but im teaching myself. you have to build muscle stregnth in your fingers, so you need to spend a minimum of 45-1:30 minutes a day, get you chord progression down then start to do a little fingerpicking, search guitar tabs for songs that are in standard tuning
ex: "horse with no name" "wild thing" "hey there deliliah"
then slowly start making transitions to harder stuff, all it takes to play guitar is concentration and practice.... see if theres a pawn shop around that majors in music, get in good with the guys, maybe they'll let you play on their instruments. its a good thing to get the feel of different guitars, i mean every guitar sounds different but they all have the same prinicples when i comes to playing them. the pawn shop i work at does the most music and encourages people to come around to just sit and jam; you learn quite a bit from people. hell if your ever around jackson, tn. let me know
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