Acoustic guitar lessons for free online/download.

Deformat · Defense Minister **Joined**: 17 Sep 2007

Yeah,'cause my family budget is really low(in fact,in this moment there's no family budget) I want to start learning the guitar(I do have one which I got via my grandparents) so I'd want to have something to do(except vacation homeworks and books...oh,and modding...).

Anybody tried to do the same?If yes,could that person point me to his/her links?'Cause I see these websites on the internet,many of them look "too well"...

SDKH · Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 2:42 pm Post subject:

I don't know what works for you but I learned to play guitar by learning tabs. Eventually you just learn your way around the guitar and get good. I can now play guitar and bass pretty well and I still have no idea how to read sheet music or anything of the sort.

Depends on what kind of music you want to play though and what kind of learning suits you. I fooled around with a few different methods and gave sheet music a go, but didn't really wrap my head around it. in the end tabs were the easiest.

I got most of my tabs from Here

Deformat · Defense Minister **Joined**: 17 Sep 2007

Thanks a lot,looks pretty useful,and I even found some of my favorite songs Smile

Still,I'm looking for other methods too.

EDIT:Are those tabs look something like this:
X---------3---4---6-8--
Z-------4---6-7----8---

Now,after what I understand(or at least I hope I do) X and Z would be notes,right?(I use the South-Eastern/Eastern system,not the western one) and then numbers would represent the intervals,correct?Or are X and Z something,like,the chords?

Blueguard · Cyborg Specialist **Joined**: 22 Aug 2007

The x-z (Usual tuning e,B,G,D,A,E) are the strings. -'s are the intervals. The numbers mean the griffs. 0 is a open string.

I can play a guitar, but I know a shit about notes.

Deformat · Defense Minister **Joined**: 17 Sep 2007

Here's something I'm trying to learn.

Now I'm curious if its good for a beginner like me...

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Deformat · Defense Minister **Joined**: 17 Sep 2007

Also,ignore the post above...bad microfone is bad.

Right,now I've got stuck in a dilemma:

I found this guitar tab which had numbers like 11,12,13.

But then I looked at ,my guitar,and saw that it had only 12 "frets"(by frets I know that they are spaces between those small metal bars).

But then I googled for frets and found that they are the bars,not the spaces between them O_o and got stuck at what they exactly are.

Also,isn't it a bit strange to have a tab with such notes?

I mean,I found this tab:

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/t/tatu/beliy_plaschik_tab.htm

I got stuck,like,playing those really low notes...

Clazzy · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 3:53 pm Post subject:

Well provided it isn't on the high E string (and according to your tab it isn't) you can just play it on the higher string. For example, instead of playing the 13th fret on B you can play the 8th fret on E instead.

Also, you'll find most guitars have 22 or 24 frets, especially electric guitars. More than 12 is perfectly normal. As for what a fret is, you're right when you say it's the gap between the metal bars. You can fret the strings on the bars themselves but it won't sound as good and it would be a pain to do that for most chords. I don't know what you're on about with the really low notes though.

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