Teaching Yourself Guitar (metal, albums, fan, metallica, covers)

Winter · 01-29-2006, 03:17 AM

Hello,

I would like to teach myself how to play the guitar,
I have myself an electric guitar (Yahama ERG121).

I was wondering if anyone else had taught themselves how to play?;
I have a 'Learn to play guitar' book which covers the notes, but I'd like a book thats simple to use to teach me; some chords, practise riff's ect.

I already know how to read tabs, strum the guitar, string names, what bending is, and heck I can make myself up a few riffs.

The part I lack is changing fingers on chords (scales are easy I can do them), but I guess that can be fixed through practise right?

To some it up: I'd like a book that has practise riff's and techniques and tips

Thanks very much, your help and advice is very very much apreciated! :-)

judas_priest · 01-29-2006, 11:10 AM

I've been teaching myself to play for about 3 months now. I found chord changes difficult at first but you're right- it does come with practice.

Books I have are, Learn To Play Guitar With Metallica, and Metallica- Riff By Riff. The latter is good for learning riffs and if you're not a Metallica fan I'm sure you could get a simialr book for a different band.

At the moment, I'm learning the Enter Sandman solo, so you could try something like that.

Hope this helps and good luck.

Winter · 01-29-2006, 11:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by judas_priest

I've been teaching myself to play for about 3 months now. I found chord changes difficult at first but you're right- it does come with practice.

Books I have are, Learn To Play Guitar With Metallica, and Metallica- Riff By Riff. The latter is good for learning riffs and if you're not a Metallica fan I'm sure you could get a simialr book for a different band.

At the moment, I'm learning the Enter Sandman solo, so you could try something like that.

Hope this helps and good luck.

Hey man, I actully had a go at playing that song, i can play the intro...thats all, but heck I just need to practice, I have also seen this book before, I was thinking of buying I mean if its the old (thrash) 'tallica then it would be great to learn!
Thanks for your help and keep playing man!

judas_priest · 02-01-2006, 03:41 PM

Yeah, the riffs are from good old thrash Metallica songs. The book has riffs from every song in all the albums up until the Black album.

Dmp3s.co.uk · 02-02-2006, 07:31 AM

I tried once, used ma mates geet and gave up after a week or so

Reggae Joe · 02-07-2006, 08:59 PM

It's not a book, but CyberFret (do an online search for it) has a lot of good tutorials and whatnot. Scales, modes, soloing, chord structure, general theory, etc. Definitely worth your time to check out.

bigtim · 02-11-2006, 03:41 PM

i am in the same boat with judas

no, not like that...

but instead of buying books, i just got one general "learn to play guitar" book to get a feel for it and then looked up good song chords on the internet, starting with songs including the chords: G, C, D, Em, etc

then moving on to chords like B, F, C#m, G#m, etc.

01-29-2006, 03:17 AM	#1 (permalink)
Winter Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The Darkest Coldest Place Posts: 94	Teaching Yourself Guitar Hello, I would like to teach myself how to play the guitar, I have myself an electric guitar (Yahama ERG121). I was wondering if anyone else had taught themselves how to play?; I have a 'Learn to play guitar' book which covers the notes, but I'd like a book thats simple to use to teach me; some chords, practise riff's ect. I already know how to read tabs, strum the guitar, string names, what bending is, and heck I can make myself up a few riffs. The part I lack is changing fingers on chords (scales are easy I can do them), but I guess that can be fixed through practise right? To some it up: I'd like a book that has practise riff's and techniques and tips Thanks very much, your help and advice is very very much apreciated! :-)

02-07-2006, 08:59 PM	#6 (permalink)
Reggae Joe Groupie Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Bowling Green, OH Posts: 28	It's not a book, but CyberFret (do an online search for it) has a lot of good tutorials and whatnot. Scales, modes, soloing, chord structure, general theory, etc. Definitely worth your time to check out. __________________ "The human rectum is almost nightmarishly elastic. I had four Rubik's cubes jammed up there one day on a bet with Brian Dennehy, when a heroin-crazed Rodney Allen Rippy burst into my trailer and punched me right in the solar plexus. I shat out all four cubes and damned if they didn't emerge solved." --Patton Oswalt as Robert Evans

01-29-2006, 11:10 AM	#2 (permalink)
judas_priest Metal Maiden Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 644	I've been teaching myself to play for about 3 months now. I found chord changes difficult at first but you're right- it does come with practice. Books I have are, Learn To Play Guitar With Metallica, and Metallica- Riff By Riff. The latter is good for learning riffs and if you're not a Metallica fan I'm sure you could get a simialr book for a different band. At the moment, I'm learning the Enter Sandman solo, so you could try something like that. Hope this helps and good luck.

02-01-2006, 03:41 PM	#4 (permalink)
judas_priest Metal Maiden Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 644	Yeah, the riffs are from good old thrash Metallica songs. The book has riffs from every song in all the albums up until the Black album.

02-02-2006, 07:31 AM	#5 (permalink)
Dmp3s.co.uk Groupie Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 13	I tried once, used ma mates geet and gave up after a week or so

02-11-2006, 03:41 PM	#7 (permalink)
bigtim Groupie Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 23	i am in the same boat with judas no, not like that... but instead of buying books, i just got one general "learn to play guitar" book to get a feel for it and then looked up good song chords on the internet, starting with songs including the chords: G, C, D, Em, etc then moving on to chords like B, F, C#m, G#m, etc.