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valley_parade:
Wait Jens, are you saying Darnielle uses some weird-ass version of Open E tuning?

october1983:
I think he just means he tunes relatively to one string of the guitar, with little regard to whether that was in tune or not. So it's tuned to the same intervals as EADGBE but not necessarily those notes exactly.

Lupercal:
You mainly just have to have patience. I mainly just learned to play guitar from looking up easy to read tabs of songs that I liked. Sometimes you can't make it through the whole song, sometimes a chord of sequence of notes is all you needed to really get going.

I'd suggest looking up websites, and yeah buy a book. Guitar Techniques magazine is always useful, albeit pricey for a magazine. They do sometimes have instructional dvds though. I have another A5 sized book on scales, which are as essential as chords.

If you plan on sticking to electric, buy an amp, but look around your local pawn shops or whatever for a used one, unless you have a lot of money and are determined to see it through it might not be best to buy something completely new.

Patrick:
http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_2240918_do-guitar-bridges-guitar-intonation.html

If you don't read this I will personally find you and backhand you across the face and won't even turn in my rings. And if you don't know what a term means, Google it. It ain't difficult. Intonation is the reason that an overwhelming majority of n00bz keep buying new guitars and bitch about it "never staying in tune". This will help you to not be That Guy, and it will help you remove one thing off of your checklist for 'quality instrument'. Ignorance is bliss except when it costs you money, and that holds true for guitars especially.

Also we have a very good, long-running thread on the subject of guitars, it's the Guitar Topic! Pretty easy to find, usually never leaves the first page of this subforum. I don't think anybody's tripping over the fact you started yr own thread. Just for future reference. We're pretty knowledgeable in there.

OneoftheLost:
@Patrick Actually, the reason I made my own topic, is because I thought the guitar topic was about well... guitars. Like, purchases, and all that stuff. Throwing up a 'learning' how to play in the middle of a 130 page thread seemed like a bad idea. Now I know better. I could get a mod to consolidate these two threads?

On topic, thanks everyone! Patrick, the Intonation article made a little sense, but I get the feeling that its something for farther down the line. I seem to remember an amp (based on your pictures) or something down in storage, so I'll look there before I get started. Thanks a load for the websites, I didn't really find any beginner stuff that didn't require me to sign up for the vidoes etc. etc. Your google foo is much stronger then mine.

My 'local' music shoppe is an hour away at high speeds, but it sounds like a trip I'll need to make at some point. Also, guitar tabs are beyond me, because I don't know what string is what, hopefully the provided websites will fix that. I guess the rest is up to me in that department. Thanks again for the replies and help, now I have quite a bit to look over. :)

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