learning guitar- any tips? also some questions

last quarter i started to learn the guitar in a folk guitar class at my college. i have a Gibson acoustic/electric guitar that i practice on, but i'm smart enough not to take it to class and risk it damage.

does anyone know of any good sites with sheetmusic or something? i want to learn to play an entire song (either 60's-ish rock or psychedelicy) but i don't have any music

also can you reccomend any good guitar books that teach you?

also; any tips? i want to get better!

thanks!

 

Start learning the chords and everything, and figure out songs that you like, that arenty that hard. You can use a tablature site, like ultimate-guitar.com or mxtabs.net. Those help alot.

 

learn scales and practice them a lot, builds speed, accuracy and you know where the fuck to play when you want to improvise off somebody else

 

Do you read guitar TAB (tablature)? If not you should learn it... it's easy and there are alot of good sources to be found for TAB online. One of the oldest and probably the best is OLGA (OnLine Guitar Archive):

http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/tab.html

They also have simple chord/lyric versions for many songs too. I've submitted lots of stuff to OLGA myself over the years. One thing to keep in mind though... the TAB's are just submittied by inspired musicians like ourselves and thus some of them aren't always 100%. But you'll find that most are accurate. And they have like everything you can imagine (and then some.) It's truly worth a visit. Hope this helps. ~Seven

 

What you need is... The Real Books. It's this thing that has like every jazz song on sheet music. If you have AIM i'd be glad to send it to you. Tabs and tabliture might be easier, but it's definately not as good.

Also if you need sheet music to practice you can always get a hymnal. Those have plenty of sheet music for practice.

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~desmith/guitar/

That is a great site if you need to learn some extra music theory like scales and stuff.

 

one site has a shitload of tabs:

guitartabs.cc !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I always use that site, I love it cuz you dont have to join

 

Learn to listen ...

 

i prefer gyutar pro, it's a great program that shows you the tabs and plays them in a midi thing and so you can hear the song and it shows the notes that are being played in red, it's also multitracked so you can see how the rythm goes to the lead and some have vocal notes in too. great stuff. also it's really easy to get as good at playing as jimi hendrix are someone like that so make sure you listen to some yngwie malmsteen and joe statriani and to once you acheive hendrixness the next big step up is Brian May. Innuendo, what a solo. mmm...

 

Actually Guitar Pro is tabliture where as most interent sites such as Olga.net is tabs. The difference is that tabliture is more of a sheet music type tabs.

 

http://alt.venus.co.uk/weed/music/classtab/
700+ classical tabs & midis