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2 Responses to “I'm Trying to Learn to Play Electric Guitar, Does Anyone Have Advice as to How to Go About Learning?”

1. lexo80 says:

   May 17, 2011 at 11:14 am

   Don’t bother learning any songs you don’t want to learn. It’s all very well advising someone to play ‘Twinkle twinkle little star’, but why bother when you could learn to play something equally simple but way more fun, such as ‘Louie Louie’ or ‘Wild Thing’?

   You need to know what note is represented by the contact of any string with any fret – i.e., that when you fret the high E string at the second fret, you get F sharp, or when you fret the D string at the 16th fret, you get the exact same F sharp. Learn the basic chord positions and learn to play bar chords – that will free you to play many different chords in different places on the neck.

   In the 50s and 60s, many of the players who would end up being in the great British invasion bands (the Beatles, Kinks, Yardbirds, Who etc) learned the rock’n'roll songs of Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Ray Charles, Little Richard, Eddie Cochrane etc. There’s a reason for that – those songs were pretty easy to play on guitar, and they provided the absolute bedrock vocabulary of rock guitar as practised today. The shreddingest player you can think of is building on the foundation laid by Chuck Berry – he or she is not doing anything fundamentally different. These days it’s faster, louder, more distorted and with more complex scales, but the basic principle is the same: take an electric guitar and make it squeal.

   If you are having difficulty, stick with stuff that is simple but effective. 1960s garage rock, by bands like the Kingsmen, the Sonics and the Standells, is not hard to learn but it’s great stuff – especially the Sonics, one of the wildest bands ever to record. Listening to this stuff will broaden your knowledge of music and if you learn to play it, it will improve your sense of rhythm no end. These guys didn’t play flashy solos but they rocked like nothing else.
2. Evan L says:

   May 17, 2011 at 11:14 am

   yes actually. you could learn simple songs like twinke twinkle little star (it may seem childish but it WILL make you a better player) or just start playing some of the scales you can find online. And if you are serious enough about it, than i would look into gettin private lessons

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