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.
Learn exaclty what is relevant to the songs you wanna play. If you wanna play the music from the bands you listed, practice power chords.
I’d recommend checking out Justin Guitar. He’ll teach you a really solid fundamentals. The absolute gold standard for learning guitar on the internet.
But to answer your question, you’re going to want to learn how to do power chords, and barre chords. Barre chords are going to be a bitch, but it’s worth it. It’s a huuuuge plateau for new guitarists to get over.
Ain’t no dumb questions. So long as you’re trying to work things out, doing your own work as best you can, and put the question and where you’re up to clearly, it ain’t dumb! We’ve all gotta learn some how!
If you want to learn punk guitar, then learn some punk songs! I highly recommend watching a couple tutorials on how to play Ramones tunes, which are mostly power chords (simple shapes that you shift around the next).
So much of punk and pop punk is power chords, I’m sure you can start from there and then take it into those other bands that you like. And these days you can just search YouTube for lessons for just about any semi- popular song.
