12-29-2006, 03:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-29-2006, 03:40 PM by ArrogantlyIgnorant.)
well getting a guitar teacher always helps, sure helped me get through a playing slump of boredom of improvisation and such. i started with learning each note on each fret of the guitar, i had a pretty large musical background so learning that wasn't much for me but i don't know about you. i'd learn the notes in the first position up to the g which is the third fret on the low e and high e because after that it's just octaves and you should be able to figure out what note comes after what after learning that, then i'd recommend learning basic chord progressions, I IV V7, ect like A D E7, progressions and strumming along to shit like that then progressing on to learning some basic scales, pentatonic, major scales, ect then learning to improv with the newly learned scales over the newly learned chord progressions. Eh, there's so much shit to learn and it can seem overwhelming but learning to play guitar and getting good at guitar takes a lot of time and a lot of practice and if you're just going to quit after a year or so i wouldn't even bother starting to begin with. but if you have to desire / passion to play i say go for it