Learning to play guitar

[Motoman]

Hm...WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER. That's how I learned! I taught myself how to play by playing along with the songs. WMP is really helpful cause you can slow the songs down so you can keep up with them WAY easier!

Hey Metallica Man..........Megadeth FTW!

How bout instead of playing guitar..........play BASS!
In my opinion, THE BEST way to learn a song well and quickly is through the use of this funky device: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/ ... ku=241255X
Its portable plus its main function is that slows down the CD so you can play along to fast riffs and solos (Painkiller solo FTW too). Although yes, WMP is free.....er and thats why the only downside would obviously be the price, but to me it was worth it.

[ganonbanned]

Hm...WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER. That's how I learned! I taught myself how to play by playing along with the songs. WMP is really helpful cause you can slow the songs down so you can keep up with them WAY easier!

listen to any metallica while doing that ?

[Extreme_Jesus]

Normally id say screw the books just learn fromt tabs, but thanks to a whole slew of legal cases pretty much all but http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/ is left, however their tabs are a bit unreliable at times

When you're feeling a bit more confidant with your playing id suggest getting http://www.band-in-a-box.com/ to jam along with. It will give you basic drum guitar and bass rhytms to play along with and a whole bunch of otehr cool stuff too.

P.S play bass

[peedekk]

P.S play bass

Haha yea, its much easier!
thats what i play

[blackbox_dev]

P.S play bass

Haha yea, its much easier!
thats what i play

Only if your like most bass players who only use two steings... Listen to some REAL bass players.

so the book is worth it? i just want to learn the basic chords and stuff.. what is actually on the CD?

It's definitely worth it IMO. The CD has all the songs that are in the book so you can jam with it.

[daguuy]

The way I learned was look up some guitar tabs (and how to read them) of some songs you like and try to play them. Come up with your own technique and then learn the music theory or whatever, I haven't gotten that far yet.