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mattoakes
03-07-2005, 03:45 PM
Hi guys and girls,

Just though I'd post something on here as I am a complete beginner to this whole guitar world. Just bought my first guitar and fender squire bullet, amp and other bits and bobs for 140 quid.. bargain eh!!!

I suppose I came on here for a reason, I have learnt a few of the basic chords and a couple of power chords but should I be learning stuff like scales? If so can you point me in the right direction of a free website that has lessons on it? Also can anyone think of any easy blues riffs for me to learn?

Thanks for your help!!!!

Matt

(I will be Eric Clapton one day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Dr_simon
03-07-2005, 05:00 PM
Well at the whopping cost of two pound fifty a month there are about 2 and a half thousand lessons here at GT, some (including 40+ of mine) have video.
Jolly McJollyson
03-07-2005, 05:28 PM
and other bits and bobs for 140 quid.. bargain eh!!!
What the HELL does that mean!?
mattoakes
03-08-2005, 01:10 PM
bits n bobs means lead, picks, tuner and a really poo book that is about as much use as a chocolate fireguard!!
Akira
03-08-2005, 04:37 PM
bits n bobs means lead, picks, tuner and a really poo book that is about as much use as a chocolate fireguard!!

I like chocolate.
elklandercc
03-09-2005, 01:51 PM
Candy Barrrrs!
Akira
03-14-2005, 04:22 AM
Yaarrr! I am thee candy baaarrrr pirate!!! *hijacks candy bars*
elklandercc
03-15-2005, 02:35 PM
You koosh ball, give me back my candy bars!
benk1277
03-20-2005, 01:01 AM
I'm no guru, so don't listen to me. But I learned chords, chords and more chords. Know what notes are in the chords. Learn songs to play the chords. When it gets easy, learn more!
crazywolf
03-20-2005, 01:33 AM
and other bits and bobs for 140 quid.. bargain eh!!

and a really poo book that is about as much use as a chocolate fireguard!!

So for 140 "Quid" I get some bits and bobs, some poo, and some chocolate. That definately sounds like a bargan to me, if 140 quid is less that $25 american and by bargan you mean so cheap it must have been bought on the black market.
Akira
03-20-2005, 07:01 AM
You koosh ball, give me back my candy bars!

Yarrr no thee mighty swine!! These here candy baaarrrrs are mine! Yarrr!!!
benk1277
03-20-2005, 10:04 AM
mattoakes, you would also benefit from picking up some theory. It will help make it all make sense. And if you see someone wearing an eye patch and holding a Baby Ruth, RUN MAN, RUN!
mattoakes
03-20-2005, 02:14 PM
thanks for your help!!! but where the hell can i get guitar theory without going back to school!!!!!!!
Dr_simon
03-20-2005, 02:39 PM
well here would be a good place to start !

look in the theory section for lessons off the main page.
elklandercc
03-23-2005, 01:36 PM
Yarrr no thee mighty swine!! These here candy baaarrrrs are mine! Yarrr!!!
Then we shall fight to the death! *Shhhhhhiiinng!....plop* I seem to have cut my belt off and revieled my special purpose.......TO THE DEATH!!!!
benk1277
03-23-2005, 06:30 PM
Oh, oh, can I be the Major General??
I am the very model of a modern major general.
I..um..know lots of stuff..uh..which mostly..er..rhymes with general.
Cryptic Excretions
03-23-2005, 10:10 PM
Man, look at you all having fun stealing candy bars and poo. I want some candy bars and poo. I bet it'd be cool to be a candy pirate. Or even bits and bobs. Hell, bits of Bob would be pretty cool to. Or even Bob's bits.
elklandercc
03-23-2005, 10:11 PM
Thats a handy skill, what does rhyme with general thats a real word? real rhmying not is sounds like it rhyming.
Cryptic Excretions
03-23-2005, 10:15 PM
Oh, oh, can I be the Major General??
I am the very model of a modern major general.
I..um..know lots of stuff..uh..which mostly..er..rhymes with general.

What rhymes with general that you know of? and no looking in a rhyming dictionary.
crazywolf
03-24-2005, 12:59 PM
bicentennial
elklandercc
03-24-2005, 02:35 PM
bicentennial
Thats just got the same ending, it doesn't really rhyme. This is a toughy.
benk1277
03-24-2005, 06:10 PM
Hello...MINERAL...has no one but me seen Pirates of Penzance?
Dr_simon
03-24-2005, 06:33 PM
Aa one of G&S's finest !!
benk1277
03-28-2005, 05:59 PM
Have you seen the Pirate Movie? It's kind of a cheesy 80's remake of Pirates of Penzance. It's pretty funny. Modernized a little (in the 80's). Pretty cheesy though.
Jolly McJollyson
03-28-2005, 06:54 PM
Aa one of G&S's finest !!
Though not quite up to snuff with the HMS Pinafore!
BlindFire
03-28-2005, 08:07 PM
you could start by learning the twelve bar blues riff, its quite easy and classic rock started basing that and i think the dorian scales into there structure. The twelve bar blues is very simple, if u can play a power chord u can easiley learn this. sure maybe go even higher than clapton :cool: