Originally Posted by: wilsjayCOMPLETE newbie an started the core lessons track. I am wondering how fast/quickly I should progress with the lessons and wondering if there is any way to get feedback on how I am doing? Right now everything has been just about the guitar, reading tabs, etc. No real playing. Been doing just a chapter a night. Trying to take it slow and do a little each evening is my goal. My most recent lesson we just learned the C & G chords. Was hoping for explicit homework assignment kind of thing, but have not gotten any (yet). Was also wondering if there was any way to do a skype thing or something for somone to give me feedback as I progress (hopefully). Also wondering what/how I should have my amp set? I don't know anything about all of its knobs/controls.

fyi- My setup is a Squier Bullet Strat w/ a Peavey Transtube 258EFX (using headphones).

Thanks,
Jason

Fast and quick are relative. Stay the course on the Fundamentals course, it will pay off. When you start learning other things, you will go 'Oh, that's why they told me that.' Still, everyone has a different aptitude on the guitar so how quick it happens for you is different than it was for me (oooohhhh so many years ago, in a galaxy far, far away).

I started to learn the mandolin a year or so ago and got a DVD as a gift so I was game. I mean, the mando is tuned inverted to the guitar tuning (G, D, A, E) so I could pick up and play something right away but there are techniques to playing it. Granted, I did not need some of the stuff in the DVD but I still stuck with it to learn some of the things specific to mandolin.

As for amp settings, that is up to you but also it matters what you play as far as how you set it up.