:iagree: Harder to unlearn bad habits than to start off fresh without any.

Have fun!

Learn the pentatonic scale ASAP

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/f/...s/lesson27.htm

http://www.geocities.com/trollstjerne/pentatonic.html

Congrats on your purchase!!! After playing Drums for 15 years I'm now a guitar begginer also :thumbup:... Check our www.ultimate-guitar.com for tabs, lessons & forums...

I play - congrats on picking up a great skill (besides driving the X!)

I would recommend going to azchords.com and printing out some tabs for your fave songs and also visiting the music group at youtube.com - search for "guitar lessons" and a ton of vids will pop up. Look for the "split screen" vids (Marcos Farhat does some excellent close up shots of positions, fingering) and try to play along....

I play a Tele through a Marshall and also have an older Takemine acoustic for unplugged. Enjoy!:thumbup:

SRV - one of my all-time favs! :thumbup:

Learn your scales, techniques, finger/hand/picking postions, chord basics, chord progressions, look on the above websites, find other websites to help with basics, mxtabs.net used to be AWESOME, but friggin tab companies threatened to sue for copyright issues. There's an amazing program for like 40 bucks that tabs songs out for you... difficult to use when bands drop D.

Have fun, enjoy, and don't listen to a word I say cause I'm a bass player and no one ever listens to bass players and we always get the short end of the stick :)

I used to play an Ibanez SR800 through an Ampeg SVT 3Pro head and 8x10 classic cab. Now I just have the Ibanez an one day I'll get another Ampeg and I really want a Fender American Zone Deluxe (18v active pickups FTMFW). When I win the lottery, I'm getting an Alembec and Sadousky.

Yep, great pass time. I have an old Ovation. Won't keep a tune now.

Whoa! Thanks for all the great links and info :), any ideas on when i could possibly play a song? like an easy one? I look at some tabs and they look hard :(

what kind of music do you like?

Check around for a good guitar teacher in your area and get a private lesson. If you pick the right one (and that would be a challenge in itself), he would design a program for you and he might even comment whether the guitar you got would be the right model to start with. Once you have a program to follow, it would be up to you to spend a lot of time on it. The practice sessions will make you or break you.

When I was a kid, I was lucky enough that our neighbor sat down with me all the time to teach me guitar and ukulele because he saw the glow in my eyes. It wasn't an effort for me at all because I was so excited and fascinated about the way this guy played the guitar that I wanted to be like him. I went on to play classical quitar in my older years but the past 10 years I have been exclusively playing Hawaiian-style guitar (non-traditional tuning) which we call "slack-key" in the islands.

My advice to you is to put away the beautiful Ybanez GSA guitar in its case for now so you won't scratch it and go buy yourself a $100 nylon string traditional guitar and use it for your lessons. When you find that playing guitar is for you, I guarantee you that you will have more than 2 later in your life anyway. While you are at the store to buy the other guitar, also buy a guitar holder. This is where you will keep your beginner guitar, not in a case, and place it in a very accessible area.

I found that I practice more when the quitar is staring at me all the time. I now have my Rain Song guitar and my ukulele within arm's lenght of my desk so that I can reach out for one of them while I'm reading the X5 World threads, surfing the net, or waiting for downloads!