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What are some good tips to make note of while starting to learn playin' a guitar?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Don't take notes...
Memorize...
The string notes by themselves are...
E very A ss D eserves G randma's B acon E ggs...(a sentence designed to forever remember the solid notes of the strings by themselves)
Learn an easy 3 or 4 chord rock song in your head until you can hum the notes accurately. Then, sit in front of a CD tunebox, and practice thru trial and error the song by translating what's in your head to the individual notes, just playing the string notes by themselves without any chords...
Then, the rule of thumb for the chord of the string note is this...
Whatever fret note your index finger is on, to get the chord of that note, simply take your ring finger, and place it one string down and two frets down from the index fret, bar your ring finger down flattening all the strings below it, and play all the strings together...
Wah La!!
You just learned the secret of Rock Bar Chords...(later, you can learn the "real" way to play the more complicated "real" chords when you get dexterous enough to handle it...)

The end of lesson one...(practice, practice, practice) and...

Rock on, maestro...!!!