no i've watched.... hes good too, but justin guitar, and that channel that i posted are more toward "guitar class" feel, lots of other useful lesson for beginner like myself.... for theory, i think that dude on the channel i posted is very good at explaining theory and the presentation. its my recommendation. feel free to watch others lessons too

bro welcome to the club hehehe..

i learn from youtube too...

now i trying play song with mahalo.com

its very simple... song playing is

Only exception by Paramore..

just use code A E and D and little G sharp for ending.

Paramore - Only Exception <<<Click Here

heheheh nice girl keh keh

This post has been edited by XeNoGeaR: Oct 2 2010, 09:43 AM

learn simple song 1st at the same time u'll learnt thee simple chords..
by time being, u'll will learn how to strum better.. but might agreed with others, pactise and practise and pactise.. there's no simple way as shortcut happy playing..

hahaha.. that reminds me of rock band which i think is better.. not to start flame war here lol

ts, if u have ps3.. just wait for rock band 3, and get the pro rock band guitar.. u will be playing real guitar on a game while learning guitar and the songs too.. but its still long way till it come out, next year i think.. but that is if u r into gaming and dont mind spending ur dough on gaming and spend on the real guitar on the same time..

the other way i used to learn guitar is that.. learn how to read tabs, pick an easy song especially ones that have simple picking and simple strumming (i think SOAD chop suey is the most suitable), learn it and perfect it then move on to the next song.. dont ever pick a song thats not easy.. not sure its easy or not? watch guitar covers of the song in youtube and judge urself..

or register for class

when i started playing guitar, my first song is pearl jam's last kiss.
really easy to play with really easy chords.
G, Em, C, D, rinse and repeat.
totally easy to sing-along and most people know it.

learn the basic chord first then learn scaling

awesome stuff..I only able to play Nirvana - Comes as you are when i 1st start playing..coz it play the same pattern again and again..haha

btw, how's KK8 pop band are doing dude?

This post has been edited by hidzwan: Oct 3 2010, 08:34 PM

kk8 band?
i didn't join.
things never really materialized.

lol. how did you know me?

This post has been edited by SilentSerpent: Oct 4 2010, 04:46 AM

first of all, develop ur fingering style..
when u able to do this.. playing any song are not impossible

just opinion.. my style of learning.

There's a guy on youtube with username yourguitarsage.

He got loads of acoustic song cover lessons, and those lessons are very noob-friendly.

He is one hell of a cool guy too.

Be sure to check it.

But he always promote his e-book for about 30 seconds in each of his video lol. But that's just a small matter, and that guy gotta eat too right. Hehe.

there isn't really a simple way.
everyone here started out playing and working their brains off,sometimes to the point of quitting.
there isn't really a shortcut to being a good guitarist.

Well,I dun think that person may quit if he's got a great interest in playing guitar or wanna impress someone

But,is self-learning easy?I mean,I dun wanna go for classes as it's way too expensive and I don't know any home tutors,so prefer to learn from Youtube,JustinGuitar etc...is it ok?

Practice makes perfect. There are tons of tutorials on how to play a guitar online. The basic one to learn would be the chords like A chord, B chord, C chord, D chord etc. With such chords, you will be able to play some songs based on chords. You can then venture into learning how to read tabs. This will then help you to play songs where there are plucking and solos. Then for more advanced stuff like making your own song and solos, thats when theory comes in.

Link for tutorial (words):
Guitar Lessons for All

learning guitar too...

Some of the mistakes a beginner can make:
1. too occupied with fingerings -they just forget that they are playing music.
2. sometimes they just doesn't listen to the tune -too reliant on tabs all the bloody time
3. neglect to practice the basics
4. too eager to play the advanced stuffs
5. playing a single musical style -mix it up; preference of one kind of music shouldn't make you a snob towards other musical styles

Hi guys I plan to get a guitar soon,and I don't plan to go for official lessons like from Yamaha etc. or from private tutors as it's expensive,so I decide to self-learn..

Is this website a good place to start?JustinGuitar

I feel his good,his lessons are arranged neatly,and the website has a nice layout too,so should I just stick with him,or look for others on Youtube?

And also,if I don't feel like watching these lesson videos on the computer,are there any shops that sell guitar lessons DVD?So that I can play the DVD and watch in front of the TV?Maybe MPH or Popular got?

but 1 disadvantage self taught is nobody there to giude u when u having some bad habit or practice wrong way

i did all that

you could always get guitar dvds through amazon.com. pretty reliable and safe even in the hands of the dreaded malaysian postmen

Learn Basic Chord:
Root (I) - SubDominant (IV)- Dominant7(V)

ex: in C=do

The root chord : C
The subdominant chord : F
The Dominant7 : G7

Most of the diatonic song can be covered by this 3 basic chord.

I totally agree with you, sometimes undoing the bad habit is harder than learning again from scratch.