Originally Posted by: CW14I'd say take lessons to start with, to get the essentials down. Then you can start teaching yourself.

exact opposite of this. you dont need to pay 20 dollars for 30 minutes for a (usually) college educated music major to teach you how to play open chords, simple rythyms, and cheap things like pulloffs and junk like that. truuuust me, you can learn that on your own. get a teacher years down the road when (or if) you get in a rut and just want to give your playing more style, flavor, technique, ect. at your ability level, its a waste of money to pay someone that much for so little payoff. i learned with the internet, and moved onto books, and im thinking about lessons in the near future, and ivebeen playing for 3 years religiously.