Extremely-super-beginner guitar queries

[garageband]

Fair enough about the drill dealie. Bad things could happen.

[irawan gani]

everytime i hear my students involve in some kind of music project i get excited.

if you want to learn to play the guitar, find a good one at a price that you can afford that suits you and doesnt hurt and kill you while you are at it because it will hurt you no matter what the string are when you are starting out since your muscles will be adapting to a new environment.

being the school teacher that i am, i would say: i would strongly encourage you to pick up and instrument to learn how to play. even if you dont eventually learn to play it well or become a pro, it heightens your senses: teaches you how to listen better, improve discipline, changes your perspective towards life, and enhances your general motorskills not unlike sports. in other words, you will be a better all rounder and enriches the quality of your life (or destroy it )

even if you arent good at it, there are other avenues in music you could dabble into for example: music producing and recording! or songwriting or sound engineering or music marketing (although this one requires a business mind but doesnt hurt to have a music background) OR if you eventually land yourself in other professions such as advertising, computer game designer, these jobs requires and uses some kind of musical skill in many ways.

so in other words, GO FOR IT! and dont kill yourself or burn your pockets to achieve it! you are meant to enjoy it.

.. oh yea.. and listen to garageband's 'playing with the record advice', that is a very good one...

[Cailyn]

Originally Posted by garageband

Nobody asked you to rate my advice. I figured you'd decided you were essentially talentless and found something else to do with your time.

Astounded that you had actually posted some useful advice after posting over 1300 empty missives, I just couldn't help myself.

[ryanoliver]

i suggest starting on punk just to develop a rhythm and song-playing stamina; i also started electric guitar and i learned well, but if you want to follow with the stupid 'acoustic guitar will make you better' comment, good luck

If you think things like finger strength and banging hot chicks are stupid, you would be wise to stay away from the acoustic guitar.

I guarantee if I hadn't started on the acoustic, my "Chicks I Fucked" list would be cut in half. Acoustic guitars make the panties drop. But I suppose if you play 3 chord punk music you're probably not into girls anyway.

*Sorry Cailyn...men are pigs.

[garageband]

The acoustic makes you better thing is true. The hot chicks thing makes me wish I'd known earlier in my life.

[garww]

That; "...a song for you" is real close an personal thing, and the acoustic get you there - particularly with that fullness of the nylons. I don't play those games (of that sort), but that's what I've heard : )

[Cailyn]

Originally Posted by ryanoliver

If you think things like finger strength and banging hot chicks are stupid, you would be wise to stay away from the acoustic guitar.

I guarantee if I hadn't started on the acoustic, my "Chicks I Fucked" list would be cut in half. Acoustic guitars make the panties drop. But I suppose if you play 3 chord punk music you're probably not into girls anyway.

*Sorry Cailyn...men are pigs.

I knew that but I never ceased to be amazed by the extent of it.

So what you're saying is, if not for women, men would suck at guitar? Is that what you're saying?

[garww]

Originally Posted by Cailyn

I knew that but I never ceased to be amazed by the extent of it.

So what you're saying is, if not for women, men would suck at guitar? Is that what you're saying?

Ha !! The truth hurts !!

[tylerxfury]

not bashing acoustic guitar in a general sense,
i was only saying that learning acoustic first wont necessarily make you a better player
when i started learning guitar, i was into punk so i learned the dumb 3 chord progressions
maybe not the best of songs, but the feeling of accomplishment allowed me to work towards larger, better projects
after about two years of learning chords and scales and endless practice, i decided to get a quality semi-expensive acoustic guitar
and only in the past year and a half have i learned to appreciate a good acoustic progression or an electric playing over an acoustic for a different blend of sound
if acoustics your thing, go for it; only offering my 2 cents so you dont feel like you have to start acoustic to be good

[garww]

No need to apologize, Tyler x.

Heavy wound steel strings on a acoustic is murder for the baby hands.

I think we all went though the dopey three chords - just the song was different. I still play them tunes.