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acoustic guitar.
i have an acoustic guitar. its probably about 6 years old and its out of tune. i love acoustic music! and i would love to learn how to play it. i have no idea how to read music though. can someone tell me how, internet sites, etc.
thanks!
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Go to a music store and by a book. I got a book for Christmas and it comes with a CD and it teaches you like right from the basics. My book is called Guitar Method Book 1 and it either costs 9.95 or book 5.95 and cd 4.00. I REALLY recommend it. Or you can talk to a band teacher at your school and ask if you can get lessons.
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I've answered similar questions in the past, if you care to paruse my column under the music heading:
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Also, check out Harmony Central: [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
The on-line guitar chord generator:
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And if you check out this page, you'll find links to lessons and other assorted goodies.
You can do quick-n-dirty google searches for "guitar chords", "guitar tuning", "acoustic guitar technique", and smimilar things to see what you find - and quite often, you'll find some good stuff.
And as always, I highly recommend finding a book on the guitar techniques of Andres Segovia - he developed many exercises and drills to get your fingers doing the right things while playing - he was a master of the classical guitar (nylon-string acoustic, basically) and transcribed many classical pieces from violin to guitar. His techniques are invaluable in any genre, be it classical, jazz, rock, metal (most really good metal guitarist study lots of classical anyway), etc.
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i suggest learning things they call tabs because they are much easier than learning sheet music, in my opinion. you can find many guiter tab webpages with songs on them...to learn to play you could go buy a book at a music store if you didnt want to take lessons :]
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wow ok well i was gunna type out how to tune your guitar but im assuming you know nothing about frets, the position of the strings, what string is which and all that good stuff. so i suggest you go buy an electric tuner. but heres a site i found that explains it so you dont have to go out and buy one.
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you probibly wont understand it at all so if you dont go out and buy a tuner they cost 20-40$s..
also while your buying a tuner either buy lessons so you can learn to play or buy books so you can learn to play yourself. the first book i ever got was "phase 1 how to play guitar" bye ernie bell. but theres alot of other ones you can choose from.
the books explain how to read and what not. but when you first learn its just notes then you get into tabs and what not. i dont want to confuse you so ill stop there. good luck and have fun!
michelle<3
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