Yup...I need some help with this one!

Scales is probably the most responsible choice but my suggestion is to go buy Artillery's Terror Squad and just try to play along forever.

I picked the last one. But then I realized I shouldn't have. A girl who likes a boy who has a guitar will, without a doubt, ask him to write a song for her. So you better be prepared with "Learn some Doors songs and how to sing. Chicks will love that." And forget that I actually voted for the last one.

PLAY SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT

You probably won't be able to do power chords right when you get it.

Just learn scales and just move your fingers across the fretboard.

If you just got your guitar, have some fun with it. Learn basic chords and start playing songs. Learn chords and you'll know pretty much everything.

Start scales when you're ready to get serious.

except you hafta do the middle school cover version

Dragonforce - Fury of the storm

I like the polls at this point...which is a dead even race with every option at 1

You won't get far (at least not very fast), without learning general music theory and guitar theory. Start there.

Learn your basic open chords.

Learn barre chords.

You won't be able to play and sing at the same time for several months, trust me.

That, then learn to play Asian-Kung Fu Generation songs. I'll love you for that.

How bout COME AS YOU ARE!?

Learn the chords and scales.

First thing you need to do is learn to play with a violin bow.

If your name is "No Doors" you shouldn't learn Doors songs.

Smash the guitar now.

ROFL! k...

Uh do whatever you want. Play some scales, learn some chords and easy beatles songs or whatever, and just mess around with it.

Yay! I actually played something that resembled music and not just...crap.

Now my fingertips hurt.

FREEBIRD!

And I picked 4.

That. Theory is so fucking important, it can't be stressed enough. Wikipedia has some really complete and extremely useful articles on music theory. I used those almost exclusively to learn chord theory, and I still use it for reference all the time.

Actually, with open chords, singing and playing is really easy. I could do it like a day after I learned the major open position chords.

Also, as much as barre chords fucking suck to learn, they're so awesome. There's so much you can do after learning them, especially once you start learning minors and 7ths. Just remember that they're a movable form, so that no matter where you play the position for one barre chord on the neck, it's the same everywhere. If you've got an electric guitar, lower the action a lot so that it's easier to get them. And yes, the muscle in your palm that controls the thumb will hurt like a motherfucker for about the first month or two of working them, it's normal.

Break it. Now.

Haha...some parts of songs are like très easy.

Like...Smoke on the Water...

I think that's like the first riff everyone learns to play.

Yeah, open C, G, Am, A, E, Em, D, and F make up about 50 percent of songs written. They're easy to learn and yeah; not too hard to learn to sing too.

Stone Temple Pilots' Plush over here.

srsly. My friend that's almost totally tone deaf can even play it. Granted, someone had to show him how, but still, it was the first thing he learned to play.

The first thing I learned was that generic blues bassline from that one commercial, but it's not really from that song... can't remember what the commercial's for right now.