guiatrists,wat were the very 1st things u learnt as a noob?

i learnt that there are these things called tabs which you can refer to to play a song...
continued from there onwards..
 
so u all started by playing chords?

i tried to teach my cousin a lil something about guitar since he juz paid deposit 4 a flying v n i dont wish to see it untouched n in virgin condition like his J-bass copy...
i taught him knocking on heaven's door(avril lavigne's version) n he cant play the C-chord...so i told him to finger practice(u kno,1 finger/fret,4 frets/string each run) but he found tt difficult too...
so wadaya think i shud teach him?
 
i started by doing the final countdown. power chords first. haha then i did iron man by black sabbath. my teacher taught me those. then later progress to metallica, iron maiden, mr big, megadeth. then progress to soloing
 
I guess the first thing you should teach them are chords.

I do it for my friends/students and it turned out pretty well. Provided they don't give up and keep trying of course :wink:

I will give them a piece of paper with E A C G printed on it. Finger positions etc.

I'll tell them to learn one by one and strum the chord till each string rings out loud. No "taks taks"; basically getting used to it. Then try to change between 2 chords, from E to A. Once he get used to it, move to other chords and vice versa.

I think this method helps a lot, maybe you wanna ask your cousin to try? Explain to him it is quite hard at the start, and once he get used to it he'll be so happy cause he can impress girls with it :P (Form of motivation ^^)

Cheers
 
i remembered using my dad's old old classical guitar and practicing chords with it. i bought a chord chart and pasted it on the wall and learnt every chord everyday. also trained on my strumming alot, which explains my good strumming technique.

to this day i even remember the old guitar in my storeroom which brought me this far...
 
to be excalt the very 1st song i started is yngwie's far beyond the sun, till half way i really cant get it (guideline by looking at gp3, yar tat time gp4 wasnt out yet) and change to other song. The second song if im not wrong is dont cry by gnr
 
i learnt basic chords like Em.A,D,G,C, and then plucking on one string..then playing powerchords.. :lol:
 
i first learnt chords on the classical guitar, then when i got an electric, i learnt for whom the bell tolls by metallica, then i tot punk rock was cooler, so i progressed out of metallica into puunk rock, then into those 80s rock(gnr, skid row...etc.) now im somewhere between 80s rock n metal...haha...btw at my first electric guitar lesson, the teacher taught me pentatonic scale 1. :)
 
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