Playing Guitar is hard Mkay

I learned to play in college in the 80's. Im not great and I don't do everything technically correct as I taught myself but I continue to learn. Just know that there are things I thought I would never be able to do and with a little practice and a little time I find myself doing them. It will get easier and then you'll understand what you need to do to learn new techniques. It is a journey for sure.

...one that can be returned?

I taught myself in high school/college on an old Mexican telecaster

Learn the basic chords, move on to major scales, and after a year or three you’ll be able to play songs by ear

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Lanier, tune your guitar down a whole step for now. DGCFAD. Play everything the same way( but playing a Gmaj chord will really be an Fmaj, Amajor will really be G Major, etc..

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Jesus christ dude, he is a beginner. No way he even knows what all that means.

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Jesus christ dude, he is a beginner. No way he even knows what all that means.

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He's got a tuner. That's all he needs. Just tune each string 2 frets lower, so that it's DGCFAD. It's really simple. Play like normal. If he doesn't like it, tune back up to standard, but I think he will like it better. I don't tune any guitars standard anymore.
Lanier is a smart guy, he will get it once he tries it.

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But for a beginner, just keep it standard tuning and learn the scales.

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That's just it. Everything will work exactly the same way. When you play that 1st position Gmaj scale, it's going to work exactly the same, but it will really be in Fmaj instead of Gmaj. When you play chords it will all be the same. When you play a G-D-Em-C progression, you will do it exactly the same way, but you will really be playing F-C-Dm-Bb/A# It's not complicated.

Any suggestion that I give, on anything about playing guitar, is to make things easier. Things that I wish somebody had told me, but nobody did.
If a student will take the chance to start experimenting with some easier ways now, he can jump 10 years ahead in his understanding. You can always tune the guitar back to standard. Don't let this thing be such an incredibly hard challenge. You can tune a good guitar any way you want, to do whatever you want to do, and every time you try something different, you will learn something.

Playing guitar, is one example where "fricking around and finding out" is a good thing. Don't be in too much awe of this shite or intimidated by it, it's a simple machine.

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Feel free to ask me any questions.

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Why didn't you stop and catch that turtle? I can get at least 100 bucks for a turtle like that.

Really though, that's some smooth sounding stuff there.
I'm exactly the opposite of smooth. I want to get everybody's funky honkytonk bone back in working order.

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Jesus christ dude, he is a beginner. No way he even knows what all that means.

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Augggie is a good dude and a lot of help. He does go over my head sometimes but thats cool. I absorb what I can

Right now, I am back to working on G, C, F, D and em. Just switching between all of them. Or trying to.


Doing some drills everyday to build my speed and accuracy. I have not hardly touched in a year and I am a true beginner.

Scales are great for finger dexterity and for learning the fretboard IMO. Scales are really important.

ETA: So many guitar solos have a scale or part of a scale in them. Scales are an integral part of music.