Originally posted by DMBFan86
Ok thanks guys... Yeah I know that one shouldn't start out with the hardest. But I started printing out tabs for a bunch of christmas songs and stuff. And then a few others from guitars.about.com and they were all really easy for me. And I'm 6'4 with longg skinny fingers, so the stretching so far has not been an issue to me. I can fairly comfortably reach most of the chords he uses that I've tried.

Playing guitar goes beyond how far you can stretch. If it was that easy then every tall person with big hands would play. DMB has complicated rhythms that you probably won't be able to pick up correctly as a beginner.