From: Darren Addy
Don't know if anybody here plays or not, but I've decided to stop
putting off things I've always wanted to do and decided to learn the
guitar.
After exercising my Google Fu, talking to a guitar-playing coworker
and asking a couple of questions on the Acoustic Guitar Forum, I
decided to get a Seagull S6 (original). If I bought new, I was going
to go with Cedar but I tripped across a **gorgeous** "20th
Anniversary" edition that is Spruce and Maple with a high gloss finish
(semi-gloss being the usual finish on a Seagull S6). They only made
2000 of these, apparently and I got it for a LOT less than a new one.
I'm always about bang-for-the-buck. It won't be in my hot little hands
for a week or two yet when I get it from a friend, but I'm looking
forward to trying to learn (Old Dog, New Tricks).
I've already discovered the aforementioned forum and justinguitar.com
(along with his YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/JustinSandercoe ) and I plan to start with
his beginner's course and a book before possibly going to a local
teacher for lessons.
Anyway, any words of wisdom from The Collective who play would be most welcome.
I've been playing since 1965. I'm not sure how many guitars I have. Too
many probably. I didn't intend to have a collection, I just bought the
guitars I wanted to play when I could afford them.
Best advice I can give you is to find other people to play with. You'll
enjoy it more and you'll stay engaged - inspired - motivated ...
I have two groups I try to meet up with every week. One group is mainly
acoustic, and the other is more electric oriented.
There's lots & lots of tutorials on YouTube. Along with the tutorials,
almost every song you want is on YouTube. I use a program called
Audacity to capture the audio portion & save as MP3 files. Then I use
Winamp set up to repeat the songs to practice along to.
And just about any song you want to learn, someone has posted
chords/lyrics to a site somewhere. Often the chords are incomplete or
not quite right, but the offer a starting point for figuring out how to
really play the songs.
Bottom line, the way to get good at playing is to keep playing until you
get good.
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