They may be lazy, but it doesn't make them a loser.
May as well tell people they're lazy losers for going to public school.

This post was edited by Mathcorey on Nov 2 2009 01:21pm

Compulsory education is a bit different lol but that's another topic for another subforum.

Education is required, yes.
But, you could say that people that go to public school are lazy losers compared to people that go to cyber school.
The people that go to public school have somebody up there in front of the classroom reading everything to them, and they have the opportunity to work in groups. Whereas a cyber school student who is doing the self-paced process has to read everything by his/herself and do all of the work on their own.

Cyber schooling represents teaching yourself the guitar through books, and public schooling represents taking lessons (just making the representations clear).

Most people want to do it the easier way, but they'd most likely do it the other way if they didn't have the option.

You can't label somebody a lazy loser because they want to take lessons. But if they refused to learn it on their because they don't have the option to take lessons, then you can label them it.

This post was edited by Mathcorey on Nov 2 2009 02:08pm

Stretch your fingers, stay relaxed and if you get frustrated and worked up then put your guitar down and do something else for awhile...

Don't expect to play Michael Angelo Batio's shit anytime soon but just worry about coordinating your left and right hands and your left-hand fingers with your right hand.

You owe me one.

jk

(not really)

Learn how to tune a guitar, either get a tuner or learn it by ear.

Learn some really fundamental chords, look around at the Internet for some easy songs. Just get started and get used to play on your instrument.


You can pm me John if you have some questions, pretty much dealt with most of the beginner issues.

i can give you a few beginner scales if ya want. mainly focusing on strumming and memorization of the guitar without looking at it.
usually stuff i give to kids in the first class