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"Guitarists...again"

Got myself a guitar for Christmas, Epiphone Les Paul.
Very nice.
Anyway my dad is going to try teach me the basics then build it up from there.
At the moment with uni, uni work etc I can't afford the time or money to get lessons from someone who does it and is good at it.


SO could anyone give me some good begginers books, webpages. Pointers in where to start etc - just incase my dad begins to annoy me. :-)

Thanks if you can offer any helpful pointers.

El Blokey wrote:
> www.olga.net and www.guitartabs.cc for when you're a beginner, and be
> a real man, get a tape and figure it out for yourself when you've got
> the hang of it.
>
> Just like he said.

OLGA sucks. You have to have a programme to open .crd files, as pretty much of them are said format. I just put the tab I want into a search engine and voila!

Got a pretty good Blink 182 tab the other day. Bloody hard though, as I have small hands, reaching over to four or five frets can be a problem :P

I got myself a guitar for Christmas as well. Just been messing around on it so far, trying to learn intros and solos from songs I like. Learnt the Scar Tissue end solo last night. Going to try Nothing Else Matters and Son't Cry solos now (yeah right!!).

It may not be the most user friendly, but I always find their stuff to be super accurate.

The Glorious Teng wrote:
> Going to try Nothing Else
> Matters and Son't Cry solos now (yeah right!!).

NEM I believe is just based around E Pentatonic minor which is pretty simple. Good luck.

El Blokey wrote:
> It may not be the most user friendly, but I always find their stuff to
> be super accurate.

BUT WHAT DO YOU OPEN .CRD FILES WITH!?!?!?

Got me a electric guitar for christmas also, been wanting one since i was 6...only took 12 years to get one.

So far...im crap, but im persistant, so ill get there.

I got an Electric Guitar for Xmas aswell.

I've not been able to do much, be i'll get there, eventually.

Yeah, I'm pretty crap at the moment.
Trying to learn the basics etc.

Anyone got any names of good books or DVD's that help with the basics?
Or webpages?

Would like something to read or watch that would help me progress in the right dirrection but there is so many books etc that chances are I would buy something crap.

When I started out I hired books from the library, so you may want to try that.

On a similar note, for christmas I got the Office scripts book and inside is the tab and lyrics for one of the songs that David plays in episode 4 (I think it's episode 4), "Freelove Freeway"

Real easy to learn, being playing it all afternoon. I love it. :)