youtube

:D okay that might have been obvious but i didnt search there so far, will try it

Try this: http://www.guitarinstructor.com/
Personally, I never found a single resource, so I have to google for anything in particular that I want to learn. One thing that I wish I got earlier is for practicing scales which is perhaps what what you should start from, more so than tabs, and playing along, which is more for fun than getting better. First, download a metronome program. Start any scale you practice at a slow enough speed that you can get it *perfectly*, as in sync as you can. Than slowly (as slow as needed) wrap up the BPM without losing precision. The rest is kind of like quake, it will take a lot of practice to get anywhere.

Get guitar-pro.com and dl a tabpack from some major tracker.

http://www.justinguitar.com/index.php

awesome guy from tansania (i think), living in the uk. i learned quite some stuff from him.

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/

every tab of every song ever.

youtube channel guitarjamzdotcom

thumb strumming :o

read up on some basic technique and learn how to play chords. and don't do the mistake most new guitarísts do and think you can play faster than you can.. play very very slow until you get the technique down right, and after that you can up the tempo. it will help you alot in the long run.

thanks for all the advice
right now my fingers hurt like hell and im done for today

its my second day of playing and i still have problems gripping the chords right cause my finger tend to touch the strings right besides the once i hold down, sucks

i enjoy playing the first notes of californication though :D

they will hurt for the next ~4-6 weeks. hf. :D

uh, i hate that guitar. But whatever. if you really practice hard it doesnt take long to learn to play it correctly, took me 2 weeks of intensive training to learn to play guitar and after that i have just became better and better. Also good way to learn to play guitar is to learn to play songs you like ( http://www.911tabs.com/ ) is the source where i downloaded most of the tabs i wanted to practice (Guitar pro helps quite a lot)

Also http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/lessons/ has shitloads of useful tips for almost everything you can do with a guitar, helped really much when i started playng.

that's also how they hold guitars in shitty hollywood movies :P

that's the "i'm deep therefore i'll fingerpick the same arpeggio for atleast the next 70 bars"-posture

http://www.gametabs.net/

nice one, this could be fun

actually it's kinda shit imo.
most of the stuff is available on ultimate-guitar.

well its a lot easier to browse if you dont know what exactly your looking for

http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/

good for some quick learning

Tabs, already posted ultimate-guitar

www.Myguitarsolo.com has some a bunch of good stuff to learn aswell.

as way2ez was forced to remove his cock from his profile, please remove yours.

You should have played some more, earn cash, and at least get a Mexican Strat, which I think is the best 'bang for the buck', i.e. a good buy.

well, its hard to tell if i would have made more money or lost some in the next few weeks and i wanted to buy it soon. besides that i think its perfectly fine for the first guitar, you never know how long and how much your actually going to play etc...

Nice one bud - good to see someone take winnings and do something with them, rather than blowing it all on 'the next big win'

Congrats

can anyone recommend some songs that were enjoyable when you started playing?
so far i really like to play easy intros of songs i like, for example (californication from rhcp or adams song from blink)
gotta foce myself to play something with chords though ;)

america - horse with no name
cream - sunshine of your love

good beginner songs methinks

Danzig - mother

I'd play anything really, except 'Smells like teen spirit', 'Nothing else matters' or 'Stairway to heaven'. There's always a14 year old with his mother playing these songs when I walk into a music shop, which does not happen often.

I haven't enjoyed playing for the first ten years. The guitar nearly broke my will and had I been a real rock'n'roller I would have roughed up my first guitar pretty badly. It wasn't too responsive.

Only advice I can give is about timing. Many players (Miles Davis said mostly white musicians) lag behind, their timing is off. I suspect it's because at first you play too fast and then when you hear yourself, you try to slow it down messing up your natural feel for the rhythm that was given to you by your mother's heartbeat (so they say). Try to come out exactly at the last beat of the bar. Also, what helped me was to imagine a big crowd waving the hands in rhythm.

black sabbath - iron man
metallica - for whom the bell tolls
iron maiden - wasting love
megadeth - symphony of destruction

i've forgot most of what i started out playing, and most easy stuff i can think of would make me looks like a metallica-nerd.. just re-realized i simply don't listen to music where the guitar is easy :o

at first glance I thought your poker nick was "Mulan8" and wondered if your opponents would underestimate you because of it :)

grats on your e-guitar. now you can make e-music.