Self Taught (blues, cd, beatles, Nirvana, quote)

TheBig3KilledMyRainDog · 08-30-2005, 10:19 AM

So i've been teaching myself guitar for awhile now but havn't had real time to commit...until now. Im looking for guys to learn that aren't too difficult. I bought a Paul Simon book but my piano teacher said their would be alot of subtelties that I would miss, so I picked up Tom Petty, and its alright, but its not that fun.

Questions:

1. Who's someone that isn't very difficult (im looking at chords only right now)

2. Are there websites for this stuff?

Fenixpunk · 08-30-2005, 10:26 AM

http://www.guitartabs.cc/

**right-track** · 08-30-2005, 10:41 AM

I learnt to play guitar using Beatles tab and simple blues...worked for me

Trauma · 08-30-2005, 02:34 PM

I'm not getting lessons and I've only been playing for like a year...

I learned from....

Mxtabs.net
Ultimate-Guitar.com
and playing with my friends 24/7

just random songs I like.

I'm getting much better and I'm starting lessons soon.

Check out those sites.

**boo boo** · 09-01-2005, 02:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

So i've been teaching myself guitar for awhile now but havn't had real time to commit...until now. Im looking for guys to learn that aren't too difficult.

hmmm....

Who else would be a better choice?

yellowTruck · 09-01-2005, 02:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snickers

I'm not getting lessons and I've only been playing for like a year...

I learned from....

Mxtabs.net
Ultimate-Guitar.com
and playing with my friends 24/7

just random songs I like.

I'm getting much better and I'm starting lessons soon.

Check out those sites.

Yeah thats how i did it too.

Just practise with freinds and see a riff... learn it!

TheBig3KilledMyRainDog · 09-01-2005, 10:32 PM

Fair enough, and just to be safe, if I had asked this question in 1985, what would some responces have been.

I don't dislike Kurt, I dig that acoustic CD (I only have a functional acoustic guitar) but I don't wanna know just nirvana songs.

**boo boo** · 09-02-2005, 01:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

Fair enough, and just to be safe, if I had asked this question in 1985, what would some responces have been.

I don't dislike Kurt, I dig that acoustic CD (I only have a functional acoustic guitar) but I don't wanna know just nirvana songs.

Well of course not...

Both amazing songwriters, but ridiculously simple guitarists...stuff like punk rock is a good start for beginers...i would also recomend the work of Link Wray, Bo Diddley, Dave Davies, Lou Reed, Malcolm Young, Marc Bolan, Peter Buck and Johnny Ramone...all great but simple guitarists...Pete Townshend and Kieth Richards are also known for their simple but brillant rhythm work.

boris jawaka · 09-04-2005, 07:53 PM

i taught myself by messing around on my dads acoustic which I restrung for a left hander (im a southpaw) i had to cut a bigger notch in the (formerly) high e string notch to fit in the low e string and it sounds really bad.

i just played blues for ages because it was simple easy and fun and then i got a chord book and started to experiment with other chords.

because i jsut messed around on it, i learned badly and I rarely use my little finger which I regret

TheBig3KilledMyRainDog · 09-04-2005, 08:55 PM

Well I know enough to use proper form, only because my piano teacher has drilled it into my skull. I just can't afford two sets of lessons when one is 68 a month.

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08-30-2005, 10:19 AM
TheBig3KilledMyRainDog Maybe I can keep this one Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bostonia Posts: 3,830	Self Taught So i've been teaching myself guitar for awhile now but havn't had real time to commit...until now. Im looking for guys to learn that aren't too difficult. I bought a Paul Simon book but my piano teacher said their would be alot of subtelties that I would miss, so I picked up Tom Petty, and its alright, but its not that fun. Questions: 1. Who's someone that isn't very difficult (im looking at chords only right now) 2. Are there websites for this stuff? __________________ “The night falls gracefully for those who have a love to call their own. But alas, for those to whom love has turned a blind eye – love, it falls like a guillotine” “No more waiting for fate to befall me, no. I have my dreamboat, and together we will find our destiny, choose our ladder to the sky” - Markus Pierson

08-30-2005, 10:26 AM
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08-30-2005, 10:41 AM
right-track Avin' It! Join Date: May 2005 Location: THE PEOPLES ЯEPUBLIK ФF MAИCUИIA Posts: 5,055	I learnt to play guitar using Beatles tab and simple blues...worked for me __________________ Choose Liverpool. Choose the dole queue. Choose to scam disability benefit. Choose mind-numbing, grinding efficiency over flair. Choose Torben Piechnik, Istvan Kozma and Paul Stewart. Choose not to win a single league title since the backpass rule was implemented. Choose penalties. Choose car stereos, hubcaps and stanley knives. Choose to trade on your proud sense of tradition and then not lift a finger in protest when two American billionaires who don't even know the name of your club decide to buy it. Choose to win the European Cup whilst only having to play seven matches. Choose to bask in a perpetual, sickening, media love-in. Choose celebrities who ** off out of your city as soon as they have earned the money to do so and then spend the rest of their lives harping on about how wonderful it is. Choose to sing about Munich until confronted with your own tragedy. Choose to end it all in an orgy of self pity, just another excuse to perpetuate the grief culture spawned by your selfish, insular **ed-up excuse for a city. Choose your future. Choose Scouse.

09-01-2005, 10:32 PM
TheBig3KilledMyRainDog Maybe I can keep this one Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bostonia Posts: 3,830	Fair enough, and just to be safe, if I had asked this question in 1985, what would some responces have been. I don't dislike Kurt, I dig that acoustic CD (I only have a functional acoustic guitar) but I don't wanna know just nirvana songs. __________________ “The night falls gracefully for those who have a love to call their own. But alas, for those to whom love has turned a blind eye – love, it falls like a guillotine” “No more waiting for fate to befall me, no. I have my dreamboat, and together we will find our destiny, choose our ladder to the sky” - Markus Pierson

09-04-2005, 07:53 PM
boris jawaka Chrome Plated Megaphone Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Adelaide, Australia Posts: 163	i taught myself by messing around on my dads acoustic which I restrung for a left hander (im a southpaw) i had to cut a bigger notch in the (formerly) high e string notch to fit in the low e string and it sounds really bad. i just played blues for ages because it was simple easy and fun and then i got a chord book and started to experiment with other chords. because i jsut messed around on it, i learned badly and I rarely use my little finger which I regret __________________ "Artists are artists, because they have an extra sensitivity - a skin less perhaps than other people; and the great ones have an uncomfortable habit of being right about many things, long before their time" - Benjamin Britten, 1951

09-04-2005, 08:55 PM
TheBig3KilledMyRainDog Maybe I can keep this one Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bostonia Posts: 3,830	Well I know enough to use proper form, only because my piano teacher has drilled it into my skull. I just can't afford two sets of lessons when one is 68 a month. __________________ “The night falls gracefully for those who have a love to call their own. But alas, for those to whom love has turned a blind eye – love, it falls like a guillotine” “No more waiting for fate to befall me, no. I have my dreamboat, and together we will find our destiny, choose our ladder to the sky” - Markus Pierson