My new hobby. (pic)
 

Just picked up a guitar to start learning on...
http://www.bandfiles.com/rsvoo.jpg

Anyone have some tips for beginners?
:2 cents:

very cool stuff

Chicks dig the wammy bar :)

Here's another pic:
http://www.bandfiles.com/rsvoo2.jpg

And a pic of my other one:
http://www.bandfiles.com/rsvoo3.jpg

WHAMMMMMY!

cool hobby

So you got 2 new toys? sweet

Goodluck with it Voodoo! :thumbsup

Yep! 2! I dig the style of the SG, but the strat was too nice a deal to pass up.

Thanks toots!

first thing you need to work on is just getting the muscle memory down. get a choordbook and start practicing going from one to the next and back again.

Tips? Sure anyone who gets a guitar and quickly starts or learns the first few bars to stairway to heaven should have their fingers snapped back to their wrists.

Good tip. Thanks!

I don't even like that song. LOL

good shieet bro..

Whipper snapper...

Nice job, man. I'm a avid guitarist and have been playing for too many years to remember.

A good first step is to learn your basic open chords:

G, A, E, D, C

Other great basic chords to know:

Em, Am

Most people pick up a guitar and learn only power chords. You'll never get good this way. Learn your open chords first and worry about power chords later. You can do way more with open chords.

http://www.guitarforbeginners.com/openchords.html

Not sure what types of music you listen to, but bands like Nirvana and Green Day are great to start off with since their music is generally pretty simple.

Here's my favorite guitar tab resource:

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

Tip 1 learn on an acoustic first. :2 cents:

Good tips & links! Thanks!

play every day even if you only have 5 mins..... I found that if I have my guitar on a stand I play it A LOT more, because I can just pick it up for a few and put it down.....

Take care...

stick with it man I play bass and started to learn guitar first song I learned was every rose has its thorn easy ass song .. learn the open chords and basic chords the majority of songs are 3 freaking chords power chords are easy to learn and really not needed.... its all in the strummin practice the strumming ( tip to me from randy Piper who played in wasp and now with animal

Man, I love acoustic guitar and it's all I play on lately. But for learning... I think an electric is definitely easier.

shit...that's a very nice guitar...i had one but it looks sooo old and tired...lol....nice one...

Fuck! Just broke my first guitar string. LOL

Van Halen Hamburger!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tbU_2WGlqkU

"A good first step is to learn your basic open chords:
G, A, E, D, C
Other great basic chords to know:"

Gotta smile..good job:thumbsup

90% of Beatles songs used just them.

wow that is so hot... nice guitar!

hell, it is a guitar. what do you do with it ?

Nice guitar, how much did you pay for it?

yeah ,very cool stuff.

I've got the original Gibson version of that one :)

Been playing for 14 years...

First thing you have to learn, is to tune that damn thing. Forget about those small devices. You have to do it manually.

Next thing to do is to buy some "learn to play" books or find something on the internet. That will keep you buisy for a while.

And the most important thing: That instrument is something it takes YEARS to get good at. Try to play a little everyday.

As Jimi Hendrix said:
Stick with the guitar, and you will be rewarded

Coffin case?

playing guitar rules

I know the guitar shop where there is a sign on the entrance: "It is forbiden to play Stariway to heaven when you are trying guitar".

Go for it, Jimmy!

Of course it was a good deal. Its a Squire! LOL.

At any rate, good luck. I was never able to stick with it.

Nice that you have a new hobby. Hope you will feel all the rewards playing can give you. Remmeber, only practice will make you better. I've been playing for 12 years. There are many good books for learning guitar. Take time to learn the basics. There is a good book from Troy Stetina called "Speed Mechanics" It is basicly more advance book. But, don't be fulled by the title. It is NOT about shreding and stupidly fast parts with no sense. This book is about how you learn new things, how to make your own exercises to overcame hard parts. That is far more immportant than just to learn tom play very fast.
Don'y just learn to read tabs, learn to read notes. And offcorse, try to play some tunes by ear. It IS immportant.
Get the metronom from the very begining and always, always play in with sens for the rhythm!
Good luck with playing.

looks good congrats !

looks really nice...love the color :thumbsup