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Guitar Question for Guitar People
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Minnesota
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I've got an inclination to learn to play the guitar. I'm in my 30's, but would like to take some time to learn how to play. My only concern, is that I think I might hate the feeling of the strings on my finger tips. I know this sounds weird, but it reminds me of fingernails on a blackboard. Is this something other people have experienced, or am I the only one?
Also, what type of guitar should I start with? I'm considering lessons at a local music store to get started. I'm not looking to join a rock band, just to play the guitar for fun. Of course, entertaining people on the fly would also be fun.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: The O.C.
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your fingertips will develop callouses over time. learning on an acoustic will make your technique and hearing tones better. get 5 lessons first, then try to teach yourself from there.
you should probably try to borrow a guitar to make sure you really want one, you don't seem too enthused. perhaps you should stick to the skin flute...
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: NYNY
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Good suggestion PM me you can practice on mine.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: NYC*Crooklyn
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callouses form... and you get proud of them!
i suggest you don't buy a guitar at first as well. try to borrow or rent. then when you know the difference between them — go get the one you love in the store.
if you get a guitar and decide to wing it, buy a electric tuner and metronome as well.
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: USA
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Ditto on the callouses...what type of music are you interested in learning?
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Hudson Valley of N.Y.
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I say go for it! Although I'm originally a drummer I've always liked dabbling in guitar. I'm not great at it, never had lessons but can fake my way through most easy rock songs. I know Barr(sp) chords and most open chords and I've had an acoustic for years, had a white Gibson "V" many years ago. I recently (a month ago) got a Silvertone Apocolypse SE that kicks butt and a Randall RG15XM practice amp.
It's fun, go for it!
Tom
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: A drip off Lake Michigan
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When I wanted to learn, I bought a cheap electric guitar from Service Merchandise, and plugged it into my parents tube-powered reel to reel, which allowed for monitoring.
It made the most lustrous overdrive sound.
Because I had no idea about such things ... in fact, I wanted to learn acoustic, but couldn't afford one ... it was sort of like, well, I guess it would be like if you were sweet, innocent, and didn't ever think about sex, and then suddenly got laid.
I remember playing riffs from this great book I found at the Library called "The 50 cent guitar book", and breaking out in a cold sweat as the burning crunch came out of that oh-so-wrong, but oh-so-right device!
But the real focus of this reply is the book: If you can still find "The 50 cent guitar book," it is a great introduction to the guitar through 12-bar blues.
It is actually a comic book, but over the story--which gives you a brief history of the blues through the eyes of someone wanting to learn how to play a guitar--you are introduced to the basic blues song structure, and also pentatonic scales.
Years later, I wanted to show the book to various folk, but can no longer find it at my library  .
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