Learning guitar

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Are you learning to read music at the same time you're learning to play?

It gets much easier! Your hands will start to remember where the chords are and things will start to just come together in your head. You're building "muscle memory" for where you move to get certain results.

I have no idea what songs people start with these days. In the olden days people would play early Beatles. And Pink Floyd's "Pigs on the Wing".

And back in the day 10cc had a song called "I bought a flat guitar tutor" which I never managed to play more than two lines of. The lyrics went (and you can imagine the chords):

I bought a flat
Diminished responsibility
You're de ninth person to see
To be suspended in a seventh
Major catastrophe
It's a minor point but gee
Augmented by the sharpness of your
See what I'm going through
Ay to be with you
In a flat by the sea