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cool, thanks for the advice,

I can currently play the beginings of

Weezer: Island in the sun, Sweater song
Peppers: otherside, scar tissure
Greenday: When september ends
Purple: Smoke over water
Nirvana: smells like teen spirit, come as you are

and very slowly cuz its tough
Led Zep: stairway to heaven.

Yeah I'm Haven a blast with this guitar,

oh and whats a metronome?? ???

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a metronome is a ticking little thing that keeps you in rythem and keeps the beat. you can set it to tick on 1/4 notes, 1/2 notes, whole notes, 1/8 notes, well you get it. also you can get a really cool one that is electric and has a tuner built in :)

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my first song was Green Day's "Basket Case" really really easy. but other than that all of my suggestions were already suggested. def. Blink 182's "damnit" and "josie"

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Wish you were here: Pink Floyd is fairly easy. So is sweet home alabama is you get the rhythm down.

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Whitey Ford Sings the Blues by Everlast is a pretty fun song to learn. I picked up my electric again after layin it down for about 2 years...workin on Pantera's Cemetery Gates right now...fun song to play once you learn how to do the pitch harmonics. Or for you power chord freaks, My Own Summer (shove it) by Deftones is a blast to play too.

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Punk music is harder to play than most. You ever played that fast for 30 minutes. I have and its hardly easy. Punk music is simple but the speed/pace is what fucks most people up. Oh bass player. Simple practice makes perfect. I also like to listen to music before I play.

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Can't think of any songs off the top of my head.

I have 1 Washburn Accoustic, 1 Yamaha Classical, 1 Yamaha 5 String Bass, and 1 4string Acoustic Bass, a Short Scale 4 string bass which is in peices right now. I've had about 7-8 Guitar over time, the above are the only one I've kept.

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a REALLY good resource for you if you're just into reading tabs (blech) is power tabs. its a really simple program where it has the tab listed below the actual notes, so if you don't know the song and know about note values then you can learn it easy.... also, it will play a sweet midi file of the song too

go here to get the program: http://www.power-tab.net/

and check back at www.powertabs.net

I haven't used it in SO long, I guess its down right now... however, I have tons of the files on my computer still

Dream Theater
Tool
Rush
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Opeth
Rammstein
Queen
Dio


.... lots of things


many of the files I have have BASS as well as guitar, and even drums so if anybody is in need....

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i play a mean air guitar, call me jimmy air hendrix

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I think the first song I learned to play was nirvana's nevermind...wow is that ever depressing. Play stuff you enjoy but don't just learn punk songs, there fun but they don't get you anywhere.