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Really dumb questions about learning guitar (sorry) (lemmy.world)
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Hey guys, I'm sorry if this post comes across as super dumb but I was just wanting to ask for some advice about learning electric guitar.

Over a decade ago I inherited a guitar from a friend who took his life, I tried learning it at first but ended up getting distracted by life and dropped it. Recently though I saw it sitting and collecting dust and decided that, even if it was a cheap electric guitar, I didn't want it to spend its life like that.

So yesterday I got some new strings, a new (and better) amplifier than the $20 one I bought secondhand over a decade ago, and a couple books about guitars, one of them being a book with nothing but like 300+ different chords, I also fixed the intonation on the bridge.

So here's my questions:

I'm looking to try and play punk rock music (All American Rejects, My Chemical Romance, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, stuff with that kind of sound). What chords should I focus on learning that would be good for that kind of genre?

And I'm guessing the chords are can be played by strumming all of the strings together at once or you can play the notes individually, one after the other?

Sorry again if this post is really dumb, I really want to try and make sure I don't drop this guitar again, I'd like to properly honor my friend's memory and give this guitar the attention it deserves.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lordy, you'll never learn them all. I'd be surprised if I've learned 20, and I consider myself an intermediate player. But like I said, you can do a LOT with a little. And once you have the ground work, you get to decide where you want to go next with it. There's so many different ways and styles to play. Just find stuff that's fun and easy to start with. That'll help keep you motivated.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeahhh I'm quickly finding that out. I think this chord book is also meant for acoustic guitars, as some of the chords they have listed show, for example, the sixth string being played but not the fifth, and then it'll play strings 4 through one as well. So unless I was finger picking, I don't see how I'd be able to skip that fifth string quickly enough to play the entirety of the chord.

I'll definitely keep that in mind, though. So far I'm having trouble with some of the chords in getting all of the strings to play cleanly without buzzing. I don't know if it's a lack of proper calluses on my ring and pinky fingers, or if maybe I'm not squishing them tightly enough to be right up on the fret. I'm hoping soon I'll get good enough at switching between chords that I can start learning some songs!