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Question:I already have a guitar and can play a little


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I already have a guitar and can play a little

yeah,
I teach myself

I use this site:
http://guitar.about.com/library/blguitar...

Its easy 2 understand and teaches you step by step.

and for chords:
http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/
http://www.chordbook.com/guitarchords.ph...
http://chordfind.com/

a professional player may guide u better.

www.ultimate-guitar.com search for easy guitar tabs
just go to the music store and buy a begginer book, i suggest anything under 20 dollars that got ode to joy and yankee doodles

PLEASE BUY BOOKS FROM ROYAL SCHOOL OF MUSIC,
LONDON'S BOOK SHOPS.

START WITH GRADE ONE BOOKS FOR
THEORY AND PRACTICE.

GRADUALLY YOU SHALL HAVE TO GO TO
HIGHER GRADE STUDIES.

AVAILABLE FROM GOOD MUSIC INSTRUMENTS' SHOPS
OR BOOK STORES

I taught myself guitar with an old simple book I found somewhere.But I had lessons in piano and violin , so I had basic musical knowledge. I would just go to a music store and look at the different books they have and see what seems to make most sense. May be the liabray has a book to check out?....

Yes, playing guitar can be self-learnt. When it comes to buying books start in buying the Beginner's coz it getz very complicated if not.

Jamming with friends will help a lot in learning. Hook up with those who knows. They could give free tips.

I taught myself to play guitar after getting some tips on rhythm from the fellow that supplied me with 11 chords on a sheet of paper. What truly helped me was the year of Vocal I took in high school where I learned to read and write music.

The next item that assisted me was a guitar manual having a few thousand chords and the musical notation associated with them. (I still have the tattered remnants of that chord book after 51 years.)

Aside from the above, the single training aid that propelled me upward was learning the Chromatic Scale and using the basic F, Fm, Bb, Bbm, C#, and Ab chords in the first fret. Committing to memory those chord formations in every fret with their new names was key to progression.