Guitar and drum learning?

**slaverix** · Joined: 05 May 2009 Posts: 44

So I've come a bit of the way into playing my electric guitar and wondering if there are an great to difficult songs for learning? Also I plan to get a small electric drum kit from Wal-MArt this week hopefully, it's one of those Fuel 5 pad drum sets with a pedal, any songs I should learn on a small electronic drum set like that? Thanks for showing any and all songs I should learn.
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**eyewin8** · Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 2790

For guitar, I would learn scales and chords first. I learned alot of random riffs when I first got a guitar, and that hindered my learning alot because I was terrible at chord transitions and simple scales. If you think that the chords and scales are boring, just learn some riffs of your favorite songs, but remember that you have to eventually learn those chords.

As far as drumming goes, you can't get much more simple than AC/DC. I would start out with some of their songs first and build your way up in difficulty. After about a month you should have the basics down and can just jam to some of your favorite songs. However, I do recommend a teacher if you are taking drums seriously. There are just so many techniques you need to perfect to master the basics, and if you teach yourself, you could screw up your drumming.
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**slaverix** · Joined: 05 May 2009 Posts: 44

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**olle92** · Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 656 Location: Stockholm

For guitar, I recommend learning chords and scales first. And not just the basic major chords and like the pentatonic scale. Here's a great site containing all the chords you can possibly play on a guitar, and here are scales. If you don't mind putting in the effort it takes, it's good to learn reading notes and sheet-music. It makes it easier to learn new songs. Also, don't just play your favourite genre. Being good at alot of different types of music is better than being god-like at one.

For drums, I don't really have any advice for you except practice. Alot. But AC/DC or some slow-ish Metallica songs is probably a good place to start if you want to play along with music. Watch alot of drummers, study their styles. Technique is also much more important than one might think. Practicing your paradiddles will make your playing more fluent and interesting.

I'm not really great on giving advice, but I hope this helps you in some way.

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