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Heh, new guy here. But I have a couple of sites that might prove quite useful.

Cyberfret - This site has pretty much everything you need, from basics (hammers, pull-offs, bends) to some more advanced techniques (sweeps, arpeggios, scales, shredding) along with quite a few random tips and tricks to make your life easier.

Oland Torvund's Guitar Pages - I stumbled across this site just today when I was looking for some blues scales to practice with. While he has a plethora of good tutorials, the highlight of this site (for me, anyways) is his section on music theory. It's basis IS the guitar (as opposed to the keyboard, as it is in most cases) so it's far easier for us to understand. Check it out ^.^

This is great! People are posting lessons!
Thank you alot!

www.mxtabs.net
www.guitartabs.cc
www.guitarnotes.com

Please also provide lesson that is free, for non-affordable users...

You live in NC? I lived in Cary, outside raleigh. You know where that is?

This isn't so much a lesson, as general advice for life.

I've always believed that the idea of parents forcing their kids to learn to read music on piano first before they can have guitar lessons is a ridiculous one. You learn to read the music for the instrument you play, for two reasons - clefs, and brain-speed. Piano is written in two clefs: treble and bass. If you want to learn most non-keyboard instruments, you only need one clef, not both. Learning the other one would be a complete waste of time. Also, Viola or Cello, not sure which one, is written in another clef that's not treble or bass, so it would be even less helpful to have piano lessons if you wanted to learn this instrument.

Secondly, brain-speed. If you learn to read the music on an instrument that won't be your "first instrument", then when you see a note, your brain recognizes it as, for example, a C#, then your hands think "It's that black note next to that white note just there" but if you want to play guitar, then after this thought process has happened, you then have to think about how you play C# on guitar - B-string, 2nd fret.

If you learn to read music straight onto guitar, then all that happens is you see the note, the conscious part of your brain is by-passed by a subconscious part, and your fingers automatically move into place. This, I think, is a far, far better system.

So, that's the rant over, now the important bit: This system, however good it is for reading the music of your first instrument, has a draw back. I am now learning saxophone as well as guitar, but I'm finding it really hard to get to grips with the new notes - when I see a C#, my right hand immediately thinks "Play the B-string!" and my left thinks "Hold down the B-string on the second fret!".

What I recommend to any guitarists out there who plan to learn to read music straight onto guitar, is do both at once. Once the guitar notes are fairly well established in your head, every-now-and-then, take out a piece of piano music and try to figure it out. I believe from personal experience that it will make it much easier to learn to read music for other instruments in the future.

Wow, that was a long post. Sorry about that, but I felt it needed to be said.

That's excellent advice, especially for someone who's considering a future in music. Being able to do these kind of things really opens doors for you. For instance, Session Guitarists that can sight read will be in high demand in the recording world. Being able to come in, play what's on the sheet and leave is going to make you a fortune in the long run, especially when you're getting payed by the session.

Whatever...

I know all the notes on my guitar...
You point at it or say what it is, I'll know what it is... same goes to piano.
Reading notes on Treble clef isn't so good for me...
So when i read guitar tabs I automatically convert that into a piano play.

I think there are certain types of goals that meets the way you have fun with it, you can't learn if ur not having fun!

I suggest You keep playing and set goals everytime, if you think you'll have fun!

trust me baby steps, big steps takes you to another level, and in the future is just like takeing a walk at the park. Sure music is good with money but thats up to you to make those plans, so think wisely.

eek Whatever made sense to what I said keep it for advice, ignore the rest lol

I usually go to Metaltabs or MXtabs for tabs and stuff.