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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6379921" data-attributes="member: 8835"><p>I started with this little 9-volt battery powered Marshal practice amp my wife had. Then graduated to a Crate $40 pawn shop amp. once nice thing about pawn shops is that you are buying "better" gear for the money, since it is used. Thus my $40 amp was likely a 60-100 dollar amp. Versus a $30 new amp which is worth exactly that. though the tech has gotten better...</p><p></p><p>Not to make Umbran cry, but there's a certain economics to music equipment. It's OK, x-mas is coming, and I played a lot with that little 9-volt amp...</p><p></p><p>Anyway, here's some other basic learning tips outside of any specific lessons etc:</p><p>practice that basic fingering exercise every day on the guitar. If that's all you have time for is 4 runs of that, it's better than not picking up your axe.</p><p>practice the Chord song, which is a little ditty I made up where you strum each chord you know 4 times evenly and switch to the next chord you know. Repeat for a few laps.</p><p></p><p>These 2 physical exercises keep your fingers trained and help you learn to transition from chord to chord and memorize those chords so you can play them when you actually need them. This is like 10 minutes of practice, so don't skip it.</p><p></p><p>Eventually, you'll need to know what notes are what and where.</p><p>Each night, before you fall asleep mentally recite the factoids I'm spewing below and visualize them on the guitar in your mind.</p><p></p><p>Once you learn the fat string is E and is numbered 1, then you learn that Every Adult Dog Growls, Barks, Eats. Which tells you what notes each string is.</p><p></p><p>Then you learn that the notes form a loop, and each fret represents a half step. As such, every note has a half step EXCEPT B-C and E-F:</p><p>A A# B C C# D D# E F F# G G#</p><p></p><p>Sharps are just what you call the half step when you go up, flats when you go down. So A# = B flat (don't have a symbol for that). This thing wraps around, so if you start at E and it is 0, then count 5 fret positions to the right and wrap around...</p><p></p><p>Once you know that these things, then you can mentally compute in your mind what note is on the E string at the 5th fret based on my listing above. When you figure it out, you'll notice a cool thing that is intrinsic to the design of the guitar and arrangement of the strings.</p><p></p><p>If you work through this computation before bed every night, you will instinctively know where all the notes are on the fretboard, which is useful later.</p><p></p><p>The about.com lessons will cover a lot of these facts if you don't understand what I wrote yet. But the mental exercise will reinforce and transform the data into learned material. Kind of like practicing multiplication tables as a kid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janx, post: 6379921, member: 8835"] I started with this little 9-volt battery powered Marshal practice amp my wife had. Then graduated to a Crate $40 pawn shop amp. once nice thing about pawn shops is that you are buying "better" gear for the money, since it is used. Thus my $40 amp was likely a 60-100 dollar amp. Versus a $30 new amp which is worth exactly that. though the tech has gotten better... Not to make Umbran cry, but there's a certain economics to music equipment. It's OK, x-mas is coming, and I played a lot with that little 9-volt amp... Anyway, here's some other basic learning tips outside of any specific lessons etc: practice that basic fingering exercise every day on the guitar. If that's all you have time for is 4 runs of that, it's better than not picking up your axe. practice the Chord song, which is a little ditty I made up where you strum each chord you know 4 times evenly and switch to the next chord you know. Repeat for a few laps. These 2 physical exercises keep your fingers trained and help you learn to transition from chord to chord and memorize those chords so you can play them when you actually need them. This is like 10 minutes of practice, so don't skip it. Eventually, you'll need to know what notes are what and where. Each night, before you fall asleep mentally recite the factoids I'm spewing below and visualize them on the guitar in your mind. Once you learn the fat string is E and is numbered 1, then you learn that Every Adult Dog Growls, Barks, Eats. Which tells you what notes each string is. Then you learn that the notes form a loop, and each fret represents a half step. As such, every note has a half step EXCEPT B-C and E-F: A A# B C C# D D# E F F# G G# Sharps are just what you call the half step when you go up, flats when you go down. So A# = B flat (don't have a symbol for that). This thing wraps around, so if you start at E and it is 0, then count 5 fret positions to the right and wrap around... Once you know that these things, then you can mentally compute in your mind what note is on the E string at the 5th fret based on my listing above. When you figure it out, you'll notice a cool thing that is intrinsic to the design of the guitar and arrangement of the strings. If you work through this computation before bed every night, you will instinctively know where all the notes are on the fretboard, which is useful later. The about.com lessons will cover a lot of these facts if you don't understand what I wrote yet. But the mental exercise will reinforce and transform the data into learned material. Kind of like practicing multiplication tables as a kid. [/QUOTE]
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