Yeah, you're not being cynical. You're being realistic. If miracle courses like that existed, everybody would play the guitar, and guitar would all of a sudden become boring and normal. The best thing you can do as a beginner, I think (and I'm a beginner too), is to just get a book on guitar, and memorize as many chords as you can, and practice them as often as you fancy. That, or find a guitar teacher, which is an even better option, although more expensive. Also, try to learn as many songs as you can from ear, instead of using tabs. You learn bad habits from tabs.
2 2006-06-02 03:20:27
Re: how to read guiter tabs.. (2 replies, posted in Acoustic)
Right now I'm struggling with learning standard music, but I did find a book at Barnes and Noble that was on sale, and with a giftcard I got for graduation it only cost me 4 dollars. It's called simply "Play Guitar" with a subnote "A Practical Guide to Playing Rock, Folk, and Classical Guitar". It gives you all sorts of exercises to help your build your guitar skills, and it starts off with simple tablature format, but above the tabs it gives you standard music notes, and slowly builds upon the notes that are already there, introducing half-measure notes, quarter-measure notes, breaks, repeats, et cetera. It's a pretty neat book.
3 2006-05-28 22:14:36
Re: Selling/Buying (2 replies, posted in Acoustic)
While I am novice, I would in truth much rather have a guitar that actually has a full range of playability, and some room of my improvement. That guitar I linked, as I thoroughly explained in my first post, turned out to be not such a great guitar. Or at least that guitar in particular. What my main question was, though, was for how much I should try to sell that 130 dollar guitar with the warped neck. My friend and I are going to try to pawn it on Monday. He's a good haggler, so I'm hoping for a decent amount of money, but I need to know how much I can reasonably expect.
4 2006-05-27 05:58:06
Topic: Selling/Buying (2 replies, posted in Acoustic)
I've been having trouble with my acoustic guitar recently. When I tried to fret notes lower than about the 10th fret, I got a bad buzz or completely wrong notes, with the string fretting on a fret further down the fretboard. I thought this was a problem with uneven frets, so I took the guitar down to a guitar repair shop my friends recommended. The guy there saw that the problem was not with uneven frets, but rather with a large warp in the neck itself. It was making a big hump down on the lower bits of the fretboard. To fix this, he tried to loosen the truss rod, but lo and behold, it was already loosened all the way. I'm a total novice at guitar, and I've been trying to teach myself, so this fret problem has definitely been a major stumbling block, and now it turns out it can't be fixed. So, I want to pawn my guitar, and use that money to maybe possibly be closer to buying a decent guitar. My guitar was this one: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0008EH62S/104-4316440-0742324?v=glance&n=172282" target="_blank"> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0008E … 16440-0742 324?v=glance&n=172282</a>
So, finally, my question is, for how much should I try to pawn this? It's selling for 130 on Amazon, but of course it's presumed to be fine on there. Also, for part two of my ridiculously long inquiry, is there another acoustic guitar you people can recommend? I will probably go to that guitar shop I went to earlier and buy one from there, because I will definitely want to try my guitars before I buy them from now on, but perhaps I will see one of the guitars you folks recommended there.