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Originally Posted by B0TCH
First off, I am new here! I just bought a guitar today and want to learn to play. My favorite artist is Jimmy Eat world, and to get my feet wet, I am starting with slower songs and the like. Anyways, I did get a 7/8 guitar (something like that?) and i was wondering if a larger guitar would help with my 'fat-fingers' problems. Thank guys, I appreciate the help!
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so... a week ago you came by asking about what guitar to buy. i advised you to wait until you could actually afford a decent starting one (in that thread stick-ied at the top of the page posts #20 and #23 respectively). sorry if my answer wasn't the nicest but at the same time you were asking about a guitar from an electronics and appliance store, it was sarcasm or nothing when tearing apart their ad.
now you jumped ahead and got a smaller scale guitar and are basically wondering about replacing it. within a week. please tell me it's not from Best Buy.
your first day with the instrument is not the time to be trying to learn new songs. you'll just discourage yourself. you need to learn how to walk before you can run and you need to learn how to walk without staring at your feet before you can honestly consider running.
basically, you should be learning chords and practicing at changing between your chords for the first week or so at least. by all means do look through some song tabs and chord charts to see if you spot something that looks really easy ('About a Girl' by Nirvana is Em and G for the most part with an A tossed in there every now and again).
ultimately you need to slow down and recognize that NOTHING replaces practice and trying to skip ahead will only cause you problems in the future (are you even satisfied with your first instrument? doesn't sound like it, will you learn from this event when it comes time to buy a better one? will you even stick with playing long enough after having settled to start?).