i want to teach myselft to play guitar?

Question

i already play saxaphone and sing but i want to teach myself to play the guitar i own a acoustic but also have acess to an electric guitar, i really need people to give me websites with detailed descriptions of where to place my fingers, and/or diagrams/pictures

Answer 1

You already sing and play saxophone, so you have an advantage. You know music, and this will make it easier to learn songs.

My dad is a guitarist, but never ha time, so I pretty much teach myself and get occasional help from him. He taught me how to read tabs, this information is also available online:
http://www.ehow.com/how_17082_read-guitar-tabs.html
Then I started finding songs I want to learn, and play the chords, and play the chords without strumming patterns or anything, then once I can change the chords quickly/efficiently/cleanly I start working on the strumming pattern. Here is a good site for tabs:
http://www.chordie.com/

It might also help to get someone to show you scales and a few other basic things that could help you, but none of the guitarists I know got guitar lessons, they listened to music and learned to build chords and things on their own, even without the internet. You know how to build chords, major, minor, &c. Here is a wiki article to help you out with that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_(music)
Once you can identify a note in a song, whether it is minor or major, you can figure out the chord by ear. That way you would learn fingering by what is easiest for chord changes and figuring out chords.

Another way would be watching covers on youtube, you can figure out where their fingers by pausing and playing the chord and watching the way they strum.

Happy guitar playing :)

Answer 2

Ok 4teener...My brother in law learned playing. He reads no tablature nor reads the pentagram.. but still he plays Paco de Lucia{ s and some interesting Mozart right in his 6 corder.... So I think you are wayyyyyy off if you doubt you would not be able to play being a piano guy. Just type "Learn Guitar" or "free guitar lessons" on your Google or Yahoo, and there you find many courses and tools for playing guitar. About the instrument... is easy to choose. If you want to play unplugged, as in the forest or at the beach... then forget about the electric one. If you like amplicication, and effects,. you may choose an electric one, and if you like both posibilities, just buy an electroacustical instrument, menaing a traditional guitar with a microphjone set on its body... Yamaha has some beatifull ones.... just visit your music store and ask for a test. I forgot one thing: the initial procedures to be able to make the chords sound in an unmuted way, are better learned with a guitar player in front of you... you will save hours of trying when someone shows you how to place your fingers.... is fun!

Answer 3

The above answer is right, you are better off getting a beginners book and chart. BUT threre ARE lessons on www.youtube.com.

Answer 4

Well, Its Pretty Difficult To Find That Sort Of Learning Material Online. It Would Be Better To Purchase A Begginers Book At Your Local Music Store. Thats How I Taught Myself.