D’Addario Guitar Capo – NS Tri Action - For 6-String Electric and Acoustic Guitars – Micrometer Tension Adjustment for Buzz-Free, In-Tune Performance - Single Hand Use – Integrated Pick Holder - Black

You're overthinking this. Go and get the guitar. You won't regret it. It's super easy and very common to be entirely self-taught. You can easily learn what the basic chord shapes are. There are tons of videos out there that help explain the correct way to play things. Annoyingly so a lot of the lessons I learned songs from I hate that they stop every 5 seconds to explain how to play a C chord for the millionth time as if we're going to learn to play the full song and not know how to play a C chord already.... Or any other random basic cord. The reason they do this is because if they don't the n**** angry comments from people who say they don't explain how to do it and they go too fast etc so they dumb it down which kind of sucks but at least you learn songs for free on the internet. Justin guitar, Guitar Zero to hero, Ryan Lendt, John Maclennan, guitar at work, learn guitar favorites. All of these are great channels on YouTube where you can learn hundreds of songs once you start playing. All you have to do is learn your basic chords. You can start rocking immediately once you learn a few basic chords. You might even have a guitar that comes with some sort of paper with basic chord shapes you can learn from. You can easily look all of this up on the internet. Just learn how to play these chords, A, A minor, C, D, E, E minor, F (there's an easy three finger way to play an F chord which you can find), G. Don't worry about the B chord yet because that's a bar chord which is harder. Don't need a B chord. Honestly most of the time instead of a B chord you will find songs using B minor which is also a bar chord. Don't worry about that yet either. You'll get there eventually. It will be very difficult at first to even get your hand to remember where to put your fingers. He will start by concentrating where to put each finger one by one which seems like it will take forever and you will feel like you'll never get it. You will. The best way to practice this when you're very very early be interstage is to just hold the guitar watching TV or something passive or you can just kind of practice where to put your fingers the right way. It will be very slow and difficult. Practice making your hand remember the correct shape of the cord. Try to see how fast you can switch between them. Don't concentrate on speed as much as accuracy. Better to be slow and accurate than fast and sloppy. Eventually you will notice that you can switch faster and faster very cleanly once your hand starts to remember what these shapes feel like. From what I've learned about muscle memory the brain needs a good 12 or 15 repetitions in a row done correctly before it starts becoming muscle memory. So if you can cleanly switch between a c chord, g chord and a d chord correctly like 15 times in a row your hand will start remembering how to do it without having to stop to place each finger where it needs to go. You'll learn how to do it's all at once and at this point you'll be able to play. Practice this with all your basic chords. At that point you are a guitar player. After that point the hard stuff starts. Eventually learn how to play barre chords. This is the major hurdle for every guitar player. If you can get to the point where you can play bar chords the world of music is your oyster. You will pretty much be able to play any song and at that point that wide Open door really starts getting much more fun because you start learning where to play all these different chord shapes all over the neck. Playing bar chords all up and down the neck and you start learning the names of these chords by necessity because you will find them throughout the songs that you're learning off YouTube. Get yourself a good clip on tuner. Not one of those crappy cheapo snarks that are less accurate and apparently tend to snap off and break quite easily from what I hear come and get yourself a good quality tuner. My top recommendation is something like the daddario . This one is fantastic.Nexus 360 tuner. I specifically recommend this one over pretty much anything else because it doesn't need a battery replacement when the battery runs out. It's rechargeable. You can just recharge it like you do your phone with the USB cable. Very easy. No fun playing with weird coin size batteries or anything. One charge last well over 6 months on this tuner. I think it says it has like 24 hours straight of charge time before it runs out however I tune my guitar a couple times every day and it's never really on more than a minute or two. This is why I only have to charge it once or twice each year. Fantastic battery life. Honestly this has become my go to video tutorial for beginners on acoustic . This has everything you need to know about how to properly restring your guitar. The best way to do it, even advanced things that are explained very easily like the correct way to set up your guitar. Correct way to clean things etc. This is a unbelievably great beginner tutorial that should make it really easy for you to learn things that can be intimidating like how to restring your guitar etc. Actually as I'm answering this question I just restrung my acoustic guitar about 2 hours ago. It looks like it's brand new again because I take a lot of care and cleaning the fretboard well. New strings and a clean fretboard and a little guitar polish to shine it up always makes it look like brand new and that absolutely love it. This should be something you take your time with and put a couple hours of care into. Much like taking the time to wax and shine your car. It's an enjoyable ritual of love and care for your instrument. Treat it well and you will play well.this has become my go to video tutorial for beginners on acoustic If you're looking for a suggestion for a guitar I actually personally have a Yamaha F-310 and it's still a very high quality instrument especially considering it's $200 price tag. If someone wants to try to prove me wrong by offering a good example with a nice video review showing I'm not right about this I welcome you to try to disprove me but if you look up video reviews for the Yamaha F-310 like this one even in the video review you can tell it as a very crisp great vibrant sound that really rings and resonates well. It's an absolutely great beginner guitar. I've got many compliments on this guitar and people are shocked that this guitar is only $200. In a lot of ways you can tell it's kind of a cheaper low-end guitar at that price point because that's exactly what it is. However it stays in tune very well. I never have issues with the tuning unless the temperature drastically changes which of course it will make it Go out of tune because every guitar does. It stays in tune very well. The tuning hardware is very high quality. No loose rattly tuners or anything. Very solid stainless steel no rattles or issues whatsoever. Excellent excellent hardware. The bridge and saddle, well it's a $200 guitar so you get what you get but as long as you're careful and take care of it I've had mine just over 25 years now and I just restrung it tonight and played a few songs on it. Still sounds absolutely excellent and I still enjoy playing it 25 years later. Get yourself a capo. Up to you which one but personally this is the one that I mostly use.. I used to use a shuub capo and those are very very great high quality adjustable tension capos that I still really like but the main issue I had was I couldn't clip it to my headstock. I really wanted to be able to quit my capo to the headstock and keep it with me at all times. If I don't need it it's on the headstock, when I do need it it's right there within arms reach. I now keep everything on my headstock at all times. My tuner, capo, and pick. The capo has a pick holder which works out real nice. At first I thought it was a gimmick I would never use but honestly it's fantastic to just put your clip into the slot and have a built-in pick holder. I never have to look around to find a pic. It's always right there on My Guitar. This is an old picture I randomly took one day when my guitar was dirty. It does not look like that today because I just got done shining it up so excuse the dirt but this is what my guitar is usually set up like.. Unfortunately you do need a few small items when starting out like get some good Dunlop 65 cleaner to shine up the guitar with. Get yourself some good fretboard conditioner cleaner or lemon oil fretboard cleaner. This works really well. Clean the fretboard like once every 6 months or so and it will be easy to keep it looking like new. Grab a diario string clipper peg winder tool. On the end of one of the handles it has a little pig winder and bridge pin puller hole. Very handy all-in-one tool. Allows you to easily pull out the bridge pins, wind your tuning pegs, clip your strings. This is the only tool you'll need for restringing your guitar..

Don't use any app to tune. Get yourself an actual tuner. They're super cheap.This is my recommendation. This thing is great, the biggest downside with tuners like these is the weird little coin sized battery that needs replaced from time to time. This thing is USB rechargeable. I just simply charge it once or twice a year and it lasts a good 6 months or so and I use it a little bit everyday so that tells you how long it lasts on a single charge. You can clip it right to your headstock. Mine never leaves my Guitar. I would not recommend cheaper tuners like snark. They have a history of snapping easily and breaking. They aren't as accurate either. Daddario has a couple good tuners with different sizes. They have a micro one too if that's more your preference but use a real tuner, not some goofy app. I know a lot of the kids find those popular convenient and easy but it's also convenient and easy if your tuner is literally on your headstock at all times ready to go. Here's what my head stock looks like. I keep my guitar tuned down to half step at all times because a lot of great songs I love from the '90s that I grew up on are in that tuning and I almost always practice by playing along with the actual album. I have a giant playlist with every song I've learned and I just put it on shuffle and start playing along with the band. I play all my standard tuning songs with capo on the first fret to bring it up to standard, obviously many songs use a capo various places anyway. Everything I need for a long Rock session is on that headstock. You should probably learn how to restring your guitar as well. If it's a hand-me-down guitar chances are those strings are very very old. It will sound much much better if you get some new strings. Your local music shop will be able to help you out. Personally I prefer 80/20 but a lot of people also use phosphor bronze. If you want to sing while playing you should probably go with 80/20 instead of phosphor bronze but that's up to you. You can look up videos about the sound difference between the two and decide from there. Here's a great video that will teach you the correct way to restring your guitar. Do not use a knot. watch this to learn the correct way to restring your guitar. Here's a great video explaining the difference between 80/20 and phosphor bronze strings. personally I lean heavily towards 80/20. Maybe if you're playing a loud lead you might want phosphor bronze for recording because it cuts through and is louder but 80/20 has that sweet spot dip in the mid-range where it's perfect for a voice singing along with it. If you're a singer-songwriter type you'll definitely want 80/20 instead. Since you're new you'll need a peg winder/string cutter like this as well. And if you care about the instrument at all you definitely want some goodpolish and fretboard conditioner. Lemon oil works fine.. I only do this about once every few months when I restring it. It gets dusty and dirty, take a few minutes and polish the fretboard. It makes an incredible difference and you'll be so happy with how great it looks every time you clean that fretboard. It does make a world of difference. Take care of the instrument. Not to give you a shopping list and rack up a big bill but all of these things are fairly cheap. Get them as needed I guess. Start with the tuner, maybe a capo, later the strings, cleaner etc. If you get into it you'll end up with all of this anyway.