I've been gifted one of these for my birthday and have no idea how to play guitar. Where do I beging? Which songs do I learn to play first? Any helpful resources?

If I had a guitar, the first thing I would start playing would be Nirvana

>>33213257
you are a faggot, I'm going to learn how to play videogame music

Lol

>>33213226 (OP)
ac/dc will net you satisfying result very quickly. once you master those 4 chords you can play all the riffs

Learn proper hand positioning, learn how to read tabs, and look up youtube videos and tabs for easy songs you like. It's all you need if you just want to fuck around

>>33213395
Thanks anon, any specific recs?

>>33213226 (OP)
Satisfaction

>>33213226 (OP)
I started learning guitar a year and a half ago. I'm "self taught", I watched a couple youtube tutorials here and there but for the most part I would just look up tabs to my favorite songs and started trying to play them.
learned a lot of riffs at first; real basic ones for a start, playing one string at a time without any fancy moves. then I started learning stuff with bends, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, etc.
playing multiple strings at once had been challenging to me up until very recently, probably because I never bothered learning/practicing chords.
but anyway, you don't need any expensive lessons or technically complex tutorials, you'll find after a while that guitar is actually pretty intuitive. all it takes to get gud is to just practise practise practise every day. for example, if you start out with tab videos like I did, you're probably going to pay a lot of attention to the exact finger positions that the person in the video uses. "oh, I gotta hit this fret with this finger, and then move this finger here to get that fret next" but after a while it'll become automatic, you won't need to watch the video because your hand will do its own pathfinding with the muscle memory you've built up. it's actually very cool and satisfying to experience, when you reach that point.

>>33215164
thanks anon, hoping to get good at something in my pathetic joke of a life

>>33215359
good luck, really hope it goes well for you.
I used to play videogames every day and now guitar has become my primary hobby. I'd been playing vidya less and less since I started and now it's been over a month since I've booted one up. guitar is just so much more interesting and personally rewarding.
and of course, don't get discouraged if your progress is initially slow. it's going to be slow. it should be slow. but if you commit yourself to practicing every day, or at least almost every day, you're absolutely going to see and feel that little bit of improvement every time you pick up your guitar again.
If you want more guitar discussion, check out the guitar general (/gg/) on /mu/. there's one or two shitheads that frequent it but usually overall they're a pretty friendly bunch.

>>33215359
>>33215460
and just want to clarify one more thing; for the first month or two, you may very well feel like you're not making any headway at all, no matter how much you practice. don't get discouraged by this either. keep practicing. you'll get the hang of it as long as you don't give up, I guarantee it. it's not rocket science.

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>>33215525
thank you man, actual motivational stuff. Been going through a rough patch so I hope this keeps my mind off things. Any music recomendations? I'm not particulary a fan of anything really so whatever sounds cool to play

>>33215840
honestly I'm a big fan of Julian Casablancas' work, both his bands (The Strokes and The Voidz; he has some solo stuff too) have a lot of good guitar parts of varying difficulties and it makes up the majority of my own repertoire
the very first thing I learned to play on guitar was the main riff from 12:51, and now a year and a half later I've just mastered the solo from The Modern Age
12:51 (riff starts at 0:23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaZLt2ttLO0
The Modern Age (solo starts at 1:47)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy0-S7IAlS0

Absolutely Understand Guitar playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJwa8GA7pXCWAnIeTQyw_mvy1L7ryxxPH

>>33216478
>how to make someone lose interest in guitar

>>33214461

repetition.

>>33213226 (OP)
Idk but lots of people I know learn some piano first. As I understand, this somehow translates to guitar with a better understanding of what’s going on, because music is built around piano or so,e crap. You can get a shit keyboard for ten bucks at a junk store and watch some vids for a couple weeks before you chuck it on the street for someone else and then start goofing with guitar. You don’t have to but I think people I talk to are glad they did it that way.

Do you like any rock music or bands at all? Just google "easy songs by Green Day" or whatever and get started picking out tabs.
But at the same time do some "serious" work on youtube (Justin's Guitar doesn't suck) to learn proper hand positioning and techniques and rhythm and exercises; just like in sports like golf or tennis, it can be 10x harder to unlearn bad technique than it can be to learn good technique in the first place.
Find whatever balance of fun songs you like + real (c) technique to help you grow!