How is it possible to teach yourself guitar?
I taught myself, been gigging at my church for 2 years now. I learned through training software. Check out these titles: eMedia Guitar Method Vol. 1-2 100 Chords Method Guitar Scales Nice thing about software is that it’s far more interactive than a book, and the visual interactive diagrams help imprint scales, chords, and modes into your mind. BTW, you can use tabs for a little while to get used to the movements but throw them away once you get into scale work. Also, when you get decent and know all your open chords and barre chords, try to find a gig. It really improves your musicianship. Don’t get in an amateur garage band though, find a church gig or a formal band of some kind.
Er. No. Hardly anyone uses basic chords. Just teach yourself how to read tabs and fingering. Naturally, you can get all this from the Internet. Chords aren’t really that important until you’re in a band. To learn to read chords, you can look up chord blocks and learn to read those (They’re for beginners, and again, get them off the Internet.) With tabs, the strings you play are all in the tabs. With chords, the strumming patterns come by observation and listening. After that, that’s it. Oh, you might wanna learn how to tune a guitar too… ^_^ But it’s as simple as that.
