Get Started Playing Guitar

After buying or borrowing a cheap guitar, the next thing you'll want to get is some kind of electronic guitar tuner. This shouldn't set you back anymore than 20 bucks, but I'm sure you can find one a lot cheaper.

The strings on the guitar are identified like this:

The skinny string is the highest note, and also referred to as the first string.
This string is tuned to E

The next string, referred to as the second string...
...is tuned to B

The third string gets tuned to G.

The fourth string is tuned to D.

The fifth string will be tuned to A

Last but not least, the fatest and lowest sounding string is tuned to E.

So, from low to high: E A D G B E

This is what we call standard tuning.

Now lets go look for something cool to learn to play!

In this modern information age, there is tons of info out there being shared on the web. All you need is the desire to learn, and all the answers are out there.

There are tons of good websites and blogs that can help you learn to play. One of my favorite blogs is: http://pentatonic-minor.blogspot.com/ of course that's my blog so I may have a biased opinion! Check it out and see for yourself.

Youtube is loaded with how to videos that will help you learn guitar. You can check out this really cool channel: http://www.youtube.com/simpleguitarchannel Again, I may have a biased opinion regarding it's quality, since it's my channel....guess you'll just have to see for yourself!

The first thing you want to do is learn some basic chords.

If you want to play rock music, power chords are a good thing to learn first. I've got a lesson that teaches basic power chords and has diagrams you can download that show you where to put your fingers. You can get it here: http://pentatonic-minor.blogspot.com/2008/12/learn-power-chords.html

Once you get power chords down, you can start trying to play many popular rock songs. The web is loaded with the chord changes of all kinds of popular music. Happy hunting!