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Question: What's the best way to start learning rock guitar... cheaply?

(Posted by: on 2010-06-27 11:17:49)

Note: $100 is not "cheap " for my purposes. $100 is cheap if you're buying a car. None of the answers so far are good. Ultimate Guitar does not seem to have any lessons. Instead, it is "how to improve your dexterity " or some other bullshit. There seems to be ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about actually LEARNING how to play. They seem to all be for people who ALREADY know how to play. (Which, admittedly, if you knew when you were 5, may actually be helpful in the case of guitar "elementary school " vs. rock. But, if I already knew how to play all I would have to do is get some sheet music.) The pay site that is linked, says there are "over 3, 000 lessons and more are added every day ". That makes it sound very similar to the Ultimate Guitar site, which means it would be rather stupid to pay for them and learn nothing. Unless there is a specific lessons on Ultimate Guitar that someone knows of that DOES teach you to LEARN how to play...

Posted by: Des on 2010-06-27, 11:22:26

Http:/ / guitartricks.com/ pricing.php look for books or something, or find out if anybody you know can play and would be willing to give you lessons for cheap.

Posted by: loststrength on 2010-06-27, 11:28:15

By an used guitar and learn it by yourself. or you can buy a book "guitar for dummers "

Posted by: Jos h2o on 2010-06-27, 11:37:34

You can go to ultimate-guitar.com/ lessons/ and they have a bunch of lessons people have submitted for improving your playing skill. It's completely free, even if you want to make an account(which you'll only need for submitting lessons, not for reading them). Also, that site has a huge tab/ chord library, so you can search for a song and you can more than likely find out how to play it. For instance, I just searched for "Adrenaline " by 12 Stones: ultimate-guitar.com/ search.php?value= Adrenaline &search_type= title You might want to search the lessons for something on power chords, as those make up about 3/ 4 or more of modern rock songs in the style of Creed, Collective Soul, Nickelback, etc. I hope this helps! = ) And good luck!