I've got some savings from wageslaving and I've got a lot of time on my hands but little to do. I thank God that I'm not in some hedonistic stupor with porn or drugs or alcohol or something but really I'm kind of lost. What are some goals I can set for myself. Clearly this forum is full of enlightened White Christian men and so of course I'm grateful to have the best group of people on the whole entire earth to ask. Should I look for a wife? Study something to get a decent career going?
Long Answer: Music theory describes the best ways to operate those instruments in a much more fluent manner than just mashing some cowboy chords (*which is fun, too*).
Here's what I did:
I got a cheap pawnshop keyboard and a book called *Piano for Dummies* from the library and plunked my way through it. That gave me enough to dive into another book, *Music Theory for Dummies*. And then when I picked up the guitar I read *Rock Guitar for Dummies* and by then it was super easy.
My guitar is sitting in my lap right this minute.
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**Moral:** *embrace your inner "dummy" and there's not much you can't learn how to do.*
*Piano for Dummies* is an excellent tool for learning the basics of music theory because all the piano's notes are laid out in one nice little row. It really makes understanding concepts like scalar intervals and chord structure accessible.
On a guitar the notes are repeated on each string, staggered by a fourth, *and* there's *six* of them. It's like the 3D version of a 2D object.
I'm not trying to tell you what to do, but I would *not* start with *Guitar* for learning music theory. It sounds like a tedious, frustrating method and I'm wondering if it even works for anybody.