Make sure to get a tuner, and good luck.

And make sure to play it LOUD

And make sure to play it LOUD

Best advice yet.

So uh.. how's it going yanko?:)

One of the most important things I've found?

Find a guitar tuning that suits you the best, and forget what people say about 'Lazy guitaring'. E standard is great, but if you prefer something else, take it, grab it by the balls and use it.

One of the most important things I've found?

Find a guitar tuning that suits you the best, and forget what people say about 'Lazy guitaring'. E standard is great, but if you prefer something else, take it, grab it by the balls and use it.

Totally-- I have two electrics, one in open E major (so I can still jam with guitarists who are in E standard) and one in open B major (for those lowwwww crunchy sounds). I get called 'lazy' or 'cheater' a lot for the fact that you can just bar across the whole neck for a huge, easily movable chord in open tunings, and the fact that scales get a lot easier-- really, it kind of confuses me why people call it 'cheap.' By that logic, should you start tuning to EFBCF#E or something totally random just to make it harder on yourself? Of course not! Whatever makes it more fun and easier to express yourself (which, really, is what it's all about, right?).

~Josiah

[Blazingmonga]

One of the most important things I've found?

Find a guitar tuning that suits you the best, and forget what people say about 'Lazy guitaring'. E standard is great, but if you prefer something else, take it, grab it by the balls and use it.

Totally-- I have two electrics, one in open E major (so I can still jam with guitarists who are in E standard) and one in open B major (for those lowwwww crunchy sounds). I get called 'lazy' or 'cheater' a lot for the fact that you can just bar across the whole neck for a huge, easily movable chord in open tunings, and the fact that scales get a lot easier-- really, it kind of confuses me why people call it 'cheap.' By that logic, should you start tuning to EFBCF#E or something totally random just to make it harder on yourself? Of course not! Whatever makes it more fun and easier to express yourself (which, really, is what it's all about, right?).

~Josiah

This is very cool to read!

I have had my only electric guitar (well, normal one anyway) in Open C since day one. I know a few chords in standard tuning but I have never got round to learning it proper. In open C, I can make all kinds of awesome sounds and have great fun with it. Chugga chugga, widdly widdly, all those sort of things.

If it feels good, it cant be wrong. Right?

Hughie! Howdy!

well, i'm kinda ashamed to say that i couldn't pull the whole "let's learn how this damn piece of wood works" thing, at least not this past year. School + working at 2 places = no guitaring for you
sadly, it's been a musical impotence year for me, 2008... But i just bought a bass for my girlfriend, so maybe whenever she practices it, i'll try to do the same with the guitar and reboot the whole "quit relying only on MIDI" project