Learning electric guitar - your thoughts please...

As fun as Guitar Hero on the Wii is, it still doesn't quite satisfy my urge to rock out my favourite tunes, so I've decided to learn for real.

I have a friend who is a guitar tutor, so I will definitely be booking some lessons with him (poor guy has no idea what he's in for!) as well as using tutorial books etc and I expect to have to put in a LOT of practice!

So I thought i'd see what the .Org's guitar players would make of the stuff I'm thinking of buying to get me started...

I was thinking of this guitar and probably this amp.

Just wondered if anyone has owned/played either of them & what they thought? Most stuff I've read online says the guitar is a good one for a newbie, and also I'm mostly into rock/metal stuff so that's why I've picked them...

Nice choice of instrument to learn.

Ive got a load of "how to" books and cd's from ages ago if they are any use.
Ive even got a spare peavy 15w practice amp too if its any help.

Originally Posted by speedplay

Nice choice of instrument to learn.

Ive got a load of "how to" books and cd's from ages ago if they are any use.
Ive even got a spare peavy 15w practice amp too if its any help.

A mate at work has already offered me his practice amp to use till I get my own and he's a lot closer, but thanks for the offer anyway.

Out of interest, what books did you use? I've looked around the internet and there's so much choice out there it's hard to know what'll be any good.

Off the top of my head, cant remember what they are called as they are stored with my spare amp etc in the attic.

I know theres some metallica tab books, spare tuner I think theres a zoom digital effects pedal up there too from memory.

Most of my stuff got pushed to the back of the attic when the fun adjuster moved in with me

I'll have a proper look sometime this week.

I am interested in this also.

Originally Posted by the white rabbit

I am interested in this also.

do BMW do guitars ?

I've wanted to learn for years and I did actually try when I was about 18/19 but I never had the patience to practice & stick with it, or anyone that I could ask for advice. Hopefully now I have a few mates that play it'll mean I have more incentive to stick at it and improve, plus I'm a bit more patient these days.

More than anything though, I'm 30 next year and learning guitar was always on my 'things to do before I'm 30' list!

Go for it, its never too late to do the things you wanted to do when you were young. I got my bike license aged 45.

[dizzyblonde]

I have a Les Paul copy by Vintage. Beautiful black number with gold pick ups and machine heads. I also have a zoom 707 MkII that keeps me amused for hours!
The amp is carp, but it does for my little house, shame I don;t have the old Vox valve amp I used to have kicking about.

I play completely by ear, never learned tab, can't read it, nor know what chords or notes I'm playing. I've been learning to play for around 15 yrs now......I can;t play....honest!
I have a 30 yr old Tanglewood acoustic which is my baby, I learn everything on that first. If your fingers can play fast enough on an acoustic, the electric is easy peaasy

Get one and play along to all your favourite tunes, you'll soon get the hang of it. Its how I learned....Slash taught me everything I know!

lol just found a review of the guitar I have. It says pretty much what my mate said when he first picked it up and played it. He has had a few Les Pauls over the years and he said he'd be inclined to say it played better than his!!

http://reviews.harmony-central.com/r...ge/V100BB/10/1

[Wideboy]

good choice in guitar, epiphone are usually slatted but for the money but i like them and i'd have one for the money, pick-ups might be worth upgrading in the future if you fancy a bigger amp