It wasn’t until probably the last six months or so that I’ve been able to play the guitar. I’ve always been very interested since a young age considering my dad and his brothers pretty much grew up on the guitar and drums. It’s always been in the family and when I would watch them play they always made it look so easy.. it seemed like almost a natural thing for them. I tried for years to learn how to play… tried to have my father help me, looked to books to teach me, spent hours on youtube watching people try to explain.. etc. Nothing ever really worked. I eventually gave up for a few years then just within the past year or so I became interested in it again when I would see all these girls just going crazy over musicians at shows/concerts… lol. So I started looking online and came across this website .. … which is an online program with videos and the works that teaches everything you need to know to learn how to play.

It’s probably the best tutorial/instructional course I’ve ever seen… I learned how to play the guitar very quickly and now it seems like I can almost play songs by ear.. something my uncle can do. I’m actually planning on tryin to start up a band with a few friends of mine after I get myself a newer more expensive better quality guitar. But I definitely would have never learned it if it wasn’t for that course.

I hope I was of some help to you my friend, and I wish you the best of luck! Rock on. James Monroe

now if you really want to work with electric still go with cort or honer, im not sure how many shops will carry them but they are decently priced electrics that will last a long time.

as for online i wouldnt trust it, alot of “Pro Guitar Lesson” sites teach the wrong things first, tabs are a big thing that you shouldnt learn first off, it causes issues later on. freakynightmere

I highly recommend you check out - It isn’t a free service but it isn’t expensive at all and is definately worth the investment if you want to make fast progress!

I hope this helps.

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Merry Xmas! Sebastian

I would recommend getting a good teacher to teach you the most important techniques hands-on first. Teaching yourself takes usually longer.

If you have experience playing the piano it should even go faster as you have a musical ear developed already. However, give yourself some time to develop strength on your fingers and let there be some skin build up on your fingers - they usually hurt a little when you start out for the first months
Hope that helped.

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Take Guns ‘n’ Roses’ ‘Don’t Cry’, for instance:

At first, you hear Izzy (who was usually the rhythm guitarist) playing the intro. So far, that could be considered a lead (solo) guitar, as there’s nothing else going on at the time. But, when the second guitarist (Slash) enters, he (Slash) is playing the ‘lead’ (more in the foreground, with more freedom to make ornaments or even stop at certain moments without affecting the backing track). However, Slash is also playing rhythm (chords) later in the song, but he also plays the solo.

So yes, a guitar may turn between lead and rhythm similarly to the way an actor can be lead or supporting depending on the scene or the episode.

But contrary to what people tend to believe, the lead guitarist is not necessarily (i.e. universally) ‘better’ than the rhythm guitarist. Some rhythm patterns are quite tricky, and some solos can be deceptively simple. And it also involves the guitarist’s speciality: Brian May (from Queen) admitted there were certain funky rhythms he (Brian) had a hard time playing and didn’t get quite right, while John Deacon (the bass player, but also a skilful guitarist) could do better than him; but of course, Brian could play way better and harder solos. So it’s sometimes about different guitarists having different abilities on different areas, not always (although in the case of Queen it was blatantly obvious) one being a categorically ‘better’ guitarist than the other.

The Beatles were interesting in that department too: George, Paul and John all could play solos, and they all could play chords in different ways (strummed, arpeggiated), but each had subtle (and not so subtle) differences which made them ‘the man’ for certain tasks and requirements. The usual live line-up of John on rhythm, George on lead and Paul on bass largely declined with the advent of multi-tracking and studio experimentation. In the end, there were loads of instances of Paul or John playing lead guitar, John or George on bass, any of them on rhythm, etc.

Now that I mentioned Queen, this song: is a good example of a single guitar being both lead and rhythm (i.e. providing harmonic and rhythmic support while also doing some licks, riffs and the bluesy solo). Too bad there’s not a video of it… Sebastian

Good Luck Hezekiah Lloyd