Some Tips To Newbie

• A good book about how to play the guitar can help you to learn or improve a particular skill or style.
• Although price is not a great indicator of quality, most very inexpensive guitars will have issues that can make play more difficult. For example, frets can be raised too high resulting in buzz as the string contacts them inappropriately. Or a neck that has excessive or too little curve. If possible, take an experienced guitarist with you when going to buy a guitar and make sure you play before you buy, get one that feels right for you.
• Most guitars have many hand-made parts, no matter what the price range. So, quality can vary between guitars of the same model. Once you decide on a particular model, be sure to inspect each guitar of that model in the store and choose the best one.
• Practice fingerpicking. Look up some fingerpicking patterns online, or, for bonus points, try to figure out the patterns of some of your favorite guitar songs.
• Find some song that you want to play and get the tab for that song, and practice that song. It makes it more interesting and easy to play guitar.
• Do consider different aspects of learning the guitar such as ear training and learning basic music theory. Good references can be found here at Jamaorama.