Guitar Mags are a pretty cool way to do it. That's how our guitarist learned and continue's to do so to this day. He did get lessons though for the first 2 years but he has done the bulk of his learning by just playing everyday and having fun with it, learning new genre's and styles. Lots of good songs to be found in guitar mags though. Guitar One is pretty good, Guitar World as well. There are some strictly acoustic guitar mags as well. Just goto the mags section in a grocery store and you'll find a bunch of them that have some great licks and some great articles as well. I myself play drums but have been playing around on the guitar for a little over a year now. Once you learn your basic chords, where your root note is and some octave's you'll start to fly on it.
Best advice I can give you is to not learn the super technical aspects of the guitar too much when you start out. Learn the basics and just have fun with it, watch/listen to a lot of music as well. If you want to learn a song find the tab for it, find a video of it and then just go for it. If it doesn't sound exactly the same as the original but you have the same feel that's fine, it's better to make a song your own IMO.
Maybe a couple hundred, I don't know if that is too high or too low to be honest.
Which would you recommend?
Our guitarist bought his #1 way back when for about 600 bucks. It's a Fender Strat made in mexico and weighs a ton. He has another guitar which was around 1800 and it's a Strat as well made in the U.S.A and you can lift it like it's nothing. It is a nice guitar but it's no where near his #1 and it was 1200 bucks less.
Basically what I am saying is when you go in to buy a guitar you have to actually try it. You'll know if its good enough for you, just play around on the guitar even if you don't know too much, you'll just know if it feels right. Fender is a pretty good brand to buy into, their Starts are really nice but their Telecasters are a harder guitar to play. You could buy into their Squire chain as well if you want to save a few bucks and they have some nice Squire guitars but my advice would to be just go in with an open mind and even if you don't buy a guitar the first few times you'll find one you like.
You could always finance it to if you want. 50 bucks a month for a decent guitar only takes a year to pay off. That's what we did for our P.A. system.
hoo boy, that's a lot of info. I am just looking for something simple and cheap to pick up to how much I get into it. Similar to how I bought a more expensive point and click camera before quickly moving onto a DSLR.
hoo boy, that's a lot of info. I am just looking for something simple and cheap to pick up to how much I get into it. Similar to how I bought a more expensive point and click camera before quickly moving onto a DSLR.
Than your best bet is to buy a Squire guitar. You can usually get them in a guitar/amp combo.
You can get one at L&M for around 320 bucks, this is what it looks like --> -- Here's a link -- http://tinyurl.com/3s424au
You can also just get a Squire guitar for just under 200 bucks -->
Not too sure about Squires. I've heard they're hard to keep in tune.
Ibanez is good value for the money. I started with one of those. Wish I had kept it. Great guitar.
Things have really stepped up lately, but if this is a issue and lot of the hardware in strats can be switched out... in this case the block and tuners
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I wouldn't recommend the kits, would rather someone buy a tube amp.
but if you go the Squire route the "Classic Vibe" run has been getting great reviews
I agree fully. Our guitarist runs a fender evil-twin:
There is nothing like an evil twin IMO. Can have such a crunchy or clean attack. It has an amazing tone on it's own but it gets even more fun when you run pedals through your chain. Love tube amps though!
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