• Zax
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  • Registered: 2008-01-30
  • Posts: 3

Topic: I am new, and, I believe I need help.

Hi, I recently bought a Silvertone SS-11, and I have always wanted a guitar...now I have it...and I don't know what to do with it a friend taught me 'Smoke on the Water', and basically how to read tabs, and switching frets, and the basic principle power chords...But I need a little more guidance and a few more lessons, if anyone would provide lessons, or give me some websites or books that they learned from.

  • From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
  • Posts: 3,403

Re: I am new, and, I believe I need help.

Zax, welcome. I found your silvertone, a pretty nice guitar, and you love probably hardrock and metal.
I play for 30 years, and reading tabs is not my biggest skill. A great site is www.youtube.com I looked there and yes, they show you how to play the song. There are different approaches. I am ashamed because I have it difficult with tabs. I am quit impatient, that's the cause.
A few years ago, there was not much information, so I have a lot of books. Every single day I promess to read tabs and worse to add a song.
You have choices, private lessons, on line lessons. What's the best? If it was me, I should try first on line, and very important is: play along with a CD.

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  • From: Nottingham, UK
  • Registered: 2006-08-08
  • Posts: 690

Re: I am new, and, I believe I need help.

It sounds like you are a beginner at guitar Zax so you're first task is to master open chords, so find a nice clean middle-position voicing where you can play classic pop songs, folk, country etc. There are lots of songbooks here with good easy beginner songs that use just E A D chords or G C D chords. These will give you confidence and if you want to rock out just switch to bridge pickup, turn up the gain and those songs get heavy...

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  • From: Murphysboro Il
  • Registered: 2007-02-10
  • Posts: 292

Re: I am new, and, I believe I need help.

Since you are makeing power chords, you may as well learn to make full bar chords. After all a power chord is half of a bar chord anyway.

"Nobody paints by ear so why would I play guitar by sight?" hmm
  • Registered: 2006-03-04
  • Posts: 2,662

Re: I am new, and, I believe I need help.

Welcome back a.c.t.! How's life? Where ya been for so long?
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