Originally Posted by: TiddlesI'd suggest jazz. Being a jazz guitarist can be quite a lonely buisiness, so the more young talent the better!!!! Also, jazz teaches you the skills and techniques to play what you want, how you want and in whatever or whomever's style you want to play it in. It's not a style - it's a freedom.
Just play man !!

You need a solid understanding of the basics of guitar (barre chords, decent picking ability, etc) to play jazz well. I highly recommend it as well, but it might not hurt to cover a couple Bush songs first or something.

Pop is the easiest style to learn because it's all four chords or fewer, no solo. Well, Fefe Dobson did a song a year or so back that actually had a decent chord riff. I think it was called "Take me away."

Blues is good to play with for practicing soloing and getting a good musical feel. It's a very underappreciated style. You would do well to at least mess around with it for a while.