Hi I just registered to be a member

My name is Sharleen and I just registered to be a member. I am just starting out on learning how to play guitar. I purchased a program to help me learn on my computer that is really good. It is teaching me a lot. It had a tunner guide and cord guide and shows you exactly where to place your fingers by showing it on an actual guitar. It also has an e book that teaches you how to read guitar cords and regular music. It was well worth the $40.00. The regular price is $500.00 and it is well worth that too. The $40.00 grand opening price only lasted until September 26th 2005. It is a good thing that I found that site when I did because I went back on September 27th to see if that date was just a gimmick to get people to buy right then and there but the sale was definatly over after September 26. Anyway I was looking through the saved favorites because this computer use to be my Dad's he gave it to me so that I can e mail him again after my computer broke and now I need to get a new hard drive for it. My Dad is a musician. I am glad that I found this site. I am so glad that it is free too. I am disabled and I only bring in a disability check every month. I have two pre teen children that also want to learn how to play guitar. I really couldn't afford the program that I just purchased but I had to get it and not pass it up or else I would never learn to play and then teach my children to play. My nephew just gave us an Electric Guitar and Amp. My children are very musically inclined as well. My daughter already plays keybords and she learned it by ear. She is now in Band at school and she is playing the Clarinet. She learned how to play 2 songs on it by reading her work book that came with it in two days. She got it on a Saturday and on Monday her band teacher was very impressed because before that Saturday she never touched a Clarinet before and she didn't know how to read music very well except for what I remembered from when I was in Choir in school. My son has High Funtioning Autism and he really loves music. Music helps him to learn. He really wants to learn how to play the guitar and if I can teach him then he would be great. He has always had really good rythem ever since he was able to crawl. He was dancing before he could walk. He would crawl over to the speakers and pull himself up and wiggle his little bottom to the beat that he was hearing and he was perfectly in tune with the music. I saw a post from January of 2005 saying that there was going to be a monthly charge of $5.00 a month for this site and I beg that it not go into effect. I wouldn't be able to afford it. I also looked at other posts where people are putting their tricks on here to teach other people how to do it. If the managers start charging $5.00 a month then they are getting paid for other peoples stuff. If that charge goes into effect then people will stop posting their tricks and stuff because then they would be giving their stuff away for someone else to make money off of it. Then when people stop posting their tricks then this site would be basically useless. Then there would be just people talking about music and not learning how to do tricks and this site is called "Guitar Tricks online Guitar Lessons" right. If people aren't posting their tricks then the site will be named something that it doesn't offer and it would be false advertisement or the managers would have to change the sites name. That is something that should be considered before you start having people start paying for the membership monthly or even a one time fee for that matter.

Thank you
Sharleen

Originally Posted by: Sharleen0146My name is Sharleen and I just registered to be a member. I am just starting out on learning how to play guitar. I purchased a program to help me learn on my computer that is really good. It is teaching me a lot. It had a tunner guide and cord guide and shows you exactly where to place your fingers by showing it on an actual guitar. It also has an e book that teaches you how to read guitar cords and regular music. It was well worth the $40.00. The regular price is $500.00 and it is well worth that too. The $40.00 grand opening price only lasted until September 26th 2005. It is a good thing that I found that site when I did because I went back on September 27th to see if that date was just a gimmick to get people to buy right then and there but the sale was definatly over after September 26. Anyway I was looking through the saved favorites because this computer use to be my Dad's he gave it to me so that I can e mail him again after my computer broke and now I need to get a new hard drive for it. My Dad is a musician. I am glad that I found this site. I am so glad that it is free too. I am disabled and I only bring in a disability check every month. I have two pre teen children that also want to learn how to play guitar. I really couldn't afford the program that I just purchased but I had to get it and not pass it up or else I would never learn to play and then teach my children to play. My nephew just gave us an Electric Guitar and Amp. My children are very musically inclined as well. My daughter already plays keybords and she learned it by ear. She is now in Band at school and she is playing the Clarinet. She learned how to play 2 songs on it by reading her work book that came with it in two days. She got it on a Saturday and on Monday her band teacher was very impressed because before that Saturday she never touched a Clarinet before and she didn't know how to read music very well except for what I remembered from when I was in Choir in school. My son has High Funtioning Autism and he really loves music. Music helps him to learn. He really wants to learn how to play the guitar and if I can teach him then he would be great. He has always had really good rythem ever since he was able to crawl. He was dancing before he could walk. He would crawl over to the speakers and pull himself up and wiggle his little bottom to the beat that he was hearing and he was perfectly in tune with the music. I saw a post from January of 2005 saying that there was going to be a monthly charge of $5.00 a month for this site and I beg that it not go into effect. I wouldn't be able to afford it. I also looked at other posts where people are putting their tricks on here to teach other people how to do it. If the managers start charging $5.00 a month then they are getting paid for other peoples stuff. If that charge goes into effect then people will stop posting their tricks and stuff because then they would be giving their stuff away for someone else to make money off of it. Then when people stop posting their tricks then this site would be basically useless. Then there would be just people talking about music and not learning how to do tricks and this site is called "Guitar Tricks online Guitar Lessons" right. If people aren't posting their tricks then the site will be named something that it doesn't offer and it would be false advertisement or the managers would have to change the sites name. That is something that should be considered before you start having people start paying for the membership monthly or even a one time fee for that matter.

Thank you
Sharleen

It's been in effect for almost a year now, but don't worry, the forums and a few lessons are still free. The more advanced lessons for the more dedicated student are not, but they are written by the site's hand-selected instructors and not just random trick-writers.

Good luck to you with the guitar, and may I also suggest a keyboard for your son as well? I know I'm opening a wormhole for disagreement, but I find piano a far more versatile instrument to which theory is much more easily applied. You have no idea how impressed I am that your daughter learned keyboards by ear. You've been blessed with very musical children, I'd definitely, if they wanted them of course, put them in lessons were I in your shoes. You may have the next Danny Elfman or John Williams on your hands.

Originally Posted by: Sharleen0146My name is Sharleen and I just registered to be a member. I am just starting out on learning how to play guitar. I purchased a program to help me learn on my computer that is really good. It is teaching me a lot. It had a tunner guide and cord guide and shows you exactly where to place your fingers by showing it on an actual guitar. It also has an e book that teaches you how to read guitar cords and regular music. It was well worth the $40.00. The regular price is $500.00 and it is well worth that too. The $40.00 grand opening price only lasted until September 26th 2005. It is a good thing that I found that site when I did because I went back on September 27th to see if that date was just a gimmick to get people to buy right then and there but the sale was definatly over after September 26. Anyway I was looking through the saved favorites because this computer use to be my Dad's he gave it to me so that I can e mail him again after my computer broke and now I need to get a new hard drive for it. My Dad is a musician. I am glad that I found this site. I am so glad that it is free too. I am disabled and I only bring in a disability check every month. I have two pre teen children that also want to learn how to play guitar. I really couldn't afford the program that I just purchased but I had to get it and not pass it up or else I would never learn to play and then teach my children to play. My nephew just gave us an Electric Guitar and Amp. My children are very musically inclined as well. My daughter already plays keybords and she learned it by ear. She is now in Band at school and she is playing the Clarinet. She learned how to play 2 songs on it by reading her work book that came with it in two days. She got it on a Saturday and on Monday her band teacher was very impressed because before that Saturday she never touched a Clarinet before and she didn't know how to read music very well except for what I remembered from when I was in Choir in school. My son has High Funtioning Autism and he really loves music. Music helps him to learn. He really wants to learn how to play the guitar and if I can teach him then he would be great. He has always had really good rythem ever since he was able to crawl. He was dancing before he could walk. He would crawl over to the speakers and pull himself up and wiggle his little bottom to the beat that he was hearing and he was perfectly in tune with the music. I saw a post from January of 2005 saying that there was going to be a monthly charge of $5.00 a month for this site and I beg that it not go into effect. I wouldn't be able to afford it. I also looked at other posts where people are putting their tricks on here to teach other people how to do it. If the managers start charging $5.00 a month then they are getting paid for other peoples stuff. If that charge goes into effect then people will stop posting their tricks and stuff because then they would be giving their stuff away for someone else to make money off of it. Then when people stop posting their tricks then this site would be basically useless. Then there would be just people talking about music and not learning how to do tricks and this site is called "Guitar Tricks online Guitar Lessons" right. If people aren't posting their tricks then the site will be named something that it doesn't offer and it would be false advertisement or the managers would have to change the sites name. That is something that should be considered before you start having people start paying for the membership monthly or even a one time fee for that matter.

Thank you
Sharleen

Hey Sharleen welcome to the site :) everyone here is cool and you will have no problems here.. people here are helpful so any questions just post em in the relevent thread and someone will help u:) and this part of the site if free so u can still get guitar tips and questions answered .. have fun:)

Thank you everyone for your welcome. I have started my son on the Keyboard. We got the keyboard for my daughter for Christmas of 2004. We are renting the Clarinet for her to have for Band. She got it 3 weeks ago and she is really good. She is teaching me how to play it. It is hard for me to paly the guitar because of my two nerve disorders and it is hard for me to play the clarinet because of my nerve disorders too. I have a nerve disorder that has spread through out my whole body and one that just effects my arms where everything gets pinched off and my arms go completley numb. I also can't play staning up at all because I am confind to a wheel chair. So it is hard for me to learn how to play the guitar but I am sticking with it because I have wanted to play ever since I can remember but growing up on welfare and with drug addict parents made it hard for me to learn when I was a kid. I did learn a little bit from my cousins boyfriend when I was 12 but then she thought that I was trying to steal her 21 year old boy friend from her and had to stop. My family was really screwed up in the heads at that time so anyway raising two children with my husband and paying all the bills I was trying to save up enough money to get a guitar to start learnign again but my nephew gave me a guitar so that I could learn so that money can go twords bills and that program that I bought. Yes I do have a musical family ecept for my hubby. He can't sing or play any musincal instrument to save his life. But he is a really good dancer. Thank you for your posts. I appreciate it.

Sharleen :D

Welcome to Guitartricks!

Welcome to GT! I hope you enjoy yourself, learn some guitar goodies, and make some friends a long the way.

BTW, can your hubby dance as good as this guy?

Welcome (im still a newie, but feel i can welcome you aswell) :p

PRS > I can dance like that guy....when 1>Being shocked with 50,000Volts or 2> after drinking 13 pints of beer! :D

welcome im a newbie as well but these guys make you feel at home its also good to have a solid place of reference as you begin your journey with guitar good luck and dont be a stranger