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A suggestions for a new guitar player?

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Patatat:
Don't learn any songs for a while.

Just keep practicing scales, and chords.

Once you feel you have grasped basic finger motion, timing, speed, and strumming. Move onto songs.

KharBevNor:
But, make sure you get that riff from Smoke on the Water down as quickly as possible.

sp2:
Play with other people a lot if possible.

Damnit, I can't believe no one's said that yet.

Shadow:

--- Quote from: heretic ---LISTEN TO ME RIGHT NOW
i learned this from a very famous jazz/classical guitarist. when learning a chord progression, never try to learn it at full speed right off the bat. do it as slow as you need to, without strumming, being absolutly positive your fingers are in the right place everytime. gradually start strumming and increase speed. this will build a muscle memory, whereas tryng to play it full speed and not getting your fingers in the right place everytime will not. also, learn pendulum strumming as soon as you can because it is vital for many popular songs
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I don't know about this, maybe its just me, but when I look at songs in The Real Book and I learn em, I find I master changes better when I do do it at full speed, kinda  spin on an old orchestra teacher I had who would have us sight read music at full tempo and would never slow it down.

But you do what works for you.

and also, I didn't learn scales until about...4 months after I started playing guitar, I learned a couple of simple songs first, but I hated my first guitar teacher, stupid punk kid all he did was give me some green day songs (even though I like green day). Easy songs still remain nirvana (most things), smoke on the water, Seven Nation Army (I actually was messing around with this the other day and just improvised on it and its a good song for improv and extended solos).

Good first scale, Aminor Penetonic, cause you can solo with it, and the blues scale only has one more note.

and yes, PLAY WITH OTHER PEOPLE.

Kanno:

--- Quote from: sp2 ---Play with other people a lot if possible.

Damnit, I can't believe no one's said that yet.
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I think I know why:
Who in their right mind wants to jam with a beginning guitar player? :)

But now for something competely different (actually helpful):

You can kill a lot of time with your CD collection, a guitar, and some good tab sites on the internet.  Grab a tabbed out version of your favorite song, tune your guitar, throw the CD on, and learn it!  This is how I learned the bulk of my guitar chops, just learning new songs I wanted to play.  

Start with, uh...  Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.  You learn some cool G variations, plus, listen to me here on this one:  DRUNK PEOPLE LOVE THIS SONG.

After a while, you'll become good enough to learn that most the tabs you are following are wrong in the first place!

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