Hey guys, I’m sorry if this post comes across as super dumb but I was just wanting to ask for some advice about learning electric guitar.

Over a decade ago I inherited a guitar from a friend who took his life, I tried learning it at first but ended up getting distracted by life and dropped it. Recently though I saw it sitting and collecting dust and decided that, even if it was a cheap electric guitar, I didn’t want it to spend its life like that.

So yesterday I got some new strings, a new (and better) amplifier than the $20 one I bought secondhand over a decade ago, and a couple books about guitars, one of them being a book with nothing but like 300+ different chords, I also fixed the intonation on the bridge.

So here’s my questions:

I’m looking to try and play punk rock music (All American Rejects, My Chemical Romance, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, stuff with that kind of sound). What chords should I focus on learning that would be good for that kind of genre?

And I’m guessing the chords are can be played by strumming all of the strings together at once or you can play the notes individually, one after the other?

Sorry again if this post is really dumb, I really want to try and make sure I don’t drop this guitar again, I’d like to properly honor my friend’s memory and give this guitar the attention it deserves.

  • CarrierLost@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Excellent advice. Starting with power chords will let you feel progress and “knowing songs”, and that will help motivate you to continue to explore and get better in other areas. Learning music/playing an instrument is a journey and as you grow/evolve so will your playing. Just let it take you where you’re feeling it, and that’ll help keep you moving.

    It’s easy to get stuck on a practice routine, doing the same scales and modes over and over and then you just put the guitar down and walk away. But, in the end, we want to make music with it. That’s what will keep you going.